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''Speed humps hinder emergency services thereby putting the lives and property of residents at risk.'' Read the thing yourself at Hampshire CC's web site. I think that is scandalus.
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You don't give a link, and I couldn't find the web page you refer to. I did a search on speed and found links to a variety of control measures, including 20 limits, speed activated warning signs, etc.
I can't make up my mind what you think the scandal is? That speed bumps are being installed even though they hinder emergency services? Or that Speed bumps aren't being installed where you think they're needed?
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For what its worth, the speed bumps have slowed the average speed on the main road near my house, and made it safer to cross the road. But there may have been better ways of achieving the same result.
As a motorist, I've only started having regular suspension bills since the speed bumps went in, and I have little doubt that they gradually affect the suspension and steering of my car - once is not a problem, but several times a day, many days of the year gradually makes an impact.
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And the official view is reported to be that speed humps don't do any damage if you cross them slowly. It's that parallel-universe perspective again.
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Just put in Hampshire county council and go to the highways section. The scandal is that although they know the humps are causing deaths..yes, deaths, (london ambulance blame 500 deaths a year on them.) then I don't know what is.
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Did you mean the page entitled Traffic Calming in the Roads and Transport section?
www3.hants.gov.uk/trafficmanagement/trafficcalming...m
If so, I see what you're getting at. They cheerfully acknowledge that speed humps and traffic calming are designed primarily to inconvenience road users, and that installations frequently annoy people, cause potentially dangerous damage to vehicles and injuries to their occupants, but then state almost in as many words that none of this matters because traffic calming Makes Motorists Slow Down and is, on this basis, a Good Thing.
And they finish off by saying, in effect: "Thinking 'I gotta get me some of that?' Call this number..."
Great.
Why o why can we not have more of this "shared road space" idea that the French and the Dutch seem to able to make work without any fuss?
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