Should Councils Be Fined...

[MantaRay]

...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.

[TWR]

You could say that about T/Lights, Roundabouts, level crossing, road works Manta.

[gness]

I'm with Manta.....I hate the things......

[tonyav]

So do I, gness. So yeah fine them.

[douglas9401]

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.

[gness]

When they work properly and don't damage vehicles I'll accept them....try to drive through Kettering and the word...calming...disappears....

They are destructive and cause noise pollution...

[Mosaic]

On the other hand, hitting a straying child pedestrian at 20 mph will give them a greater chance of living. Just bloody well slow down.

[gness]

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!...☺

[jomifl]

What really is ridiculous is when the speed limit is 30 mph but you have to slow down to 15 mph to safely negotiate the sleeping cops. Why not just have a 15mph speed limit then nobody has to brake and accelerate every 50 yards.

[tonyav]

Maybe get rid of the traffic calming humps, sleeping policemen and other damage causing obstacles and have a speed camera there instead.

[sunny-dave]

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.

[MantaRay]

...and that's one of my main issues, even driving well within the posted speed limit it's still necessary to do all these fuel wasting emissions producing tactics.

[Hopkirk]

At last they are doing somethinmg about the worst pollution producing traffic calming place - the Dartford Crossing.

[MantaRay]

Yes TWR we should include badly phased traffic lights, especially the ones that stop you early morning, go through the whole sequence, and keep you waiting when there's nothing else on the road. Some others please note my post is not an issue with the speed limit as such.

[douglas9401]

Cheers, MantaRay. :-)