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Should Councils Be Fined...
...for introducing traffic calming measures that cause an increase in exhaust emissions. The reason I suggest this is because the motor industry is forced to spend millions of pounds on research to make their products cleaner and more efficient [and a fantastic job they've made of it to]...then all that work is undermined by a series of traffic calming measures that requires vehicles to slow, stop, brake, accelerate, run a lower gear than necessary...and do all the things that increase fuel consumption and exhaust emissions.
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Traffic calming is a substitute for police on the roads. Cheap and cheerful with no pension to pay. The vehicle pollution stuff is incidental, as usual, when there's money being saved.
18:57 Wed 03rd Sep 2014
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Mosaic....most of the traffic calming measures that have affected me have been in Corby and Kettering.....in places where there is heavy traffic most of the day so there is not really an opportunity to speed if you were so inclined.
Should I want to race through the town I could do it easily in the early hours without the sleeping policemen slowing me down...because they are so badly designed I can easily miss them on an empty road.
It's frustrating when they are so high that they damage your car when you drive responsibly.......then the attempts to rectify this causes weak and crumbling humps....but the boy racers can miss them...because they are... as I said...badly designed.
Sensible ones I would support...though as you intimate...they shouldn't be needed!...☺
Should I want to race through the town I could do it easily in the early hours without the sleeping policemen slowing me down...because they are so badly designed I can easily miss them on an empty road.
It's frustrating when they are so high that they damage your car when you drive responsibly.......then the attempts to rectify this causes weak and crumbling humps....but the boy racers can miss them...because they are... as I said...badly designed.
Sensible ones I would support...though as you intimate...they shouldn't be needed!...☺
It should be possible to drive through a 'traffic calmed' zone at the posted legal limit - if that isn't possible without damaging your car, then the 'calming' should be illegal.
If the argument is that the legal limit is too high, then apply for and enforce a lower limit correctly - don't just create a de facto lower limit by oversized humpage.
If the argument is that the legal limit is too high, then apply for and enforce a lower limit correctly - don't just create a de facto lower limit by oversized humpage.