Ok What Do We Think About Removing Speed Humps Then?

[ToraToraTora]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-40788674
Personally I welcome it for the environmental reasons as well as the fact that they are mostly unnecessary. We need to get stricter with enforcing speed limits outside schools etc.

[EDDIE51]

I would remove them and replace them with a 20mph rigorously enforced speed limit in areas where there are schools or a lot of pedestrians.

[murraymints]

most of them are ineffective here..not wide enough or high enough to make folks slow down...

[Cloverjo]

I wouldn't put the speed limit down to 20 mph. Drivers would be looking at their speedometers more than the road. Would you still have that limit outside schools in the middle August e.g. when children aren't there?

[murraymints]

20 mph on all roads in Edinburgh city... and quite a few in the suburbs.... does not seem to be observed or policed too well though..unless cameras are sending tickets

[Ellipsis]

> What Do We Think About Removing Speed Humps Then?

Yes, definitely. They're a bad answer to a good question.

[jno]

there's no such thing as rigorous enforcement of speed limits. (I doubt if there's single law in the land that's rigorously enforced.) It can't be done by people so it would have to be done by cameras every half mile, or by speed bumps.

[murraymints]

average speed cameras here !

[Hopkirk]

In environmental terms it is fiddling while Rome burns.

There is a massive problem with air quality, and this is a tiny area of improvement.

[mikey4444]

Couldn't disagree with you more if I tried TTT !

Speed bumps are the only measure that really works, when it comes too slowing people down, especially in residential areas. Nothing else works.

Without speed bumps, out streets would soon take on the appearance of race tracks, just as the streets without speed bumps already do.

Lets not get too over-burdened with the schools issue.....speed bumps slow drivers down in all areas, and everybody deserves to be able to use their streets in safety

[ummmm]

Average speed cameras?

Most of the speed bumps have been removed from my street already.

[murraymints]

but they have to be high and wide enough Mikey..not here..just drive over them ..between wheels and a wee blimp...

[murraymints]

cameras that clock you at point A and again at point B ..if you get to point B too quick..ticket arrives in post !

[ummmm]

Lol...I know what an average speed camera is!! They're hardly going to put them in terrace streets though are they...

[murraymints]

no...in the city here...

[mikey4444]

Minty.....The worst ones, from a drivers point of view, are those cushion types. I am looking out of my window at 3 just down the road from my house. They have been there about 7-8 years, and they certainly work. My road is on a hill as well, so if you hit one awkwardly in the way down, the car soon becomes out of control !

[mikey4444]

The great thing with speed bumps, unlike average speed cameras is that they are cheap to install.

There are average speed cameras on the M4 at Port Talbot. The road is only 2 lanes in each direction and is very narrow and twisty. But every week, 100's of drivers are still being caught exceeding the 50mph limit, and the cameras have been up for about 3 years now.

Some of those people will, of course, not be locals, especially at this time of year, but the vast majority of drivers are local and use this section of the M4 on a daily basis, and yet they still get caught !

[bhg481]

I came across a wonderful sytem in Portugal a few years ago - traffic light with a speed sensor on it and a camera to record people who pass the light at red. If you're going too fast it turns red, costing you time and making your speeding a waste of time. Emergency services unaffected as they can just ignore it. I didn't see amy in Portugal last year, so maybe they don't use them any more.

[weecalf]

I'd replace the speed humps with a bike .If you goes over speed limit you are limited to a bike for thirty years after which you have to take the test after 30 years of pushing it around .

[ludwig]

Waste of money. As a driver, they annoy the hell out of me, but they do work to slow people down. The thing about improving air quality is nonsense.

I can only imagine that they want to bring in speed limits and cameras as a money making scheme rather than keep the thing that's already in place and actually working to improve safety round schools.

[Baldric]

///My road is on a hill as well, so if you hit one awkwardly in the way down, the car soon becomes out of control !///

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