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So that's why they're putting more between the ones already there! If people carry on like you, pretty soon the whole road surface will be nothing but bumps!

On the other hand, if drivers showed true care and attention, speed bumps and cameras would not be required at all! Ah well, you reap what you sow.

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You obviously never lived in or near Stoke on Trent, where the road surface already is nothing but bumps and lumps and potholes before they started putting speed humps in.

Does that make it more or less annoying? Less, I guess.




Speedbumps only really annoy me when I'm on my bike tbh.

Anyone on here registered disabled due to back related problems?

We really need a Disability Discrimination Act suit filing against some local council over these things.

In the meantime I'll just continue to make as much noise as possible getting back up to 30 between bumps (it's great fun having a turbo that starts providing boost at 2K RPM) in the hope that it will discourage residents from asking for more of them.

Not registered disabled, but I had a whiplash injury from being rear-ended many years ago when I was driving a metro (no head restraints), and took about 12 years to get over the worst of the problem.

Speed bumps caused significant pain (think about the movement that you go through - it strains exactly the same muscles), and after trying slowing down to less than 10 mph, then up to driving at the speed limit, I finally concluded that the speed that gave minimum pain was around 45 mph in a 30 limited relatively low speed tabled road. Faster might have been even better, but that would have been faster than the safe speed for the road. If I had to drive slower (due to a vehicle in front) the air in the car turned blue with the swear words aimed at the evil ba****ds that liked causing such pain.

I am in the exact same boat as you were (I was hit quite badly at the end of 2004) and I find pretty much the same thing, only I find about 33mph to be the best speed for minimum back pain.

I want to find someone actually disabled because I probably can't claim under DDA, but the point still needs making.

They recently installed the evil yellow and black ones at RAF Henlow, but screwed up the heights. My friend, who lives on the camp, drove home for the weekend in his Elise and came back on Sunday to find the new bumps in place - crunch! promptly grounded his car on the first one and had to have it lifted off by the AA, blocking the camp gate for about 40-mins.
He physically could not get his car back to his house, and had to park outside. Pretty soon there as a row of low slung cars in the car park outside camp, all owned by people who lived on camp who could no longer get them home.

After much complaining they have now dropped the heights, but they still give the car a hell of a jolt at any speed. Coincidentally, I have just had to have both rear shocks changed (bushes broken - but Jag only sell the complete units ) and the rear anti-roll bushes changed - hmm.

They make things which are usually 'safe' in the car turn into missiles... And you can't drive over them with McDonald's coffee in the cupholder

Depending on how 'lazy' I'm feeling I'll usually just stay in 2nd or 3rd gear going over them... Really how can they call them 'traffic calming' measures... How do they think I'm going to feel after negotiating an obstacle course, spilling my coffee and also being left to pick up the coins that I keep in my wee tray under the central console... Oh yes, totally calm...

Nice to make a bit of noise for the people that complain... I was totally shocked, we took my gran out for lunch on Sunday, and on the way home we hit some speed humps coming down towards her house... She said, "Oh these things are an awful nuisance!" I couldn't believe it, this is an 85 year old (who really shouldn't still be driving, but she is) and she was complaining...

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Mike

Funny how nobody ever goes back to maintain humps or line markings now!

This hump is in Kendal, on a busy road, often called a rat run.
I would say it is an essential route to many parts of Kendal, forced upon you by the ever changing one-way-system.

Here it is in close up.
Could that damage your tyres?
It certainly influences the steering if you are not aware!

This "BUS STOP" is just around the corner....

The yellow lines a re worn out at the end, as well as the wording - I thought it was a layby!!

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Time to take responsibility for our actions.. and don't be afraid of speaking out!

Well the double yellow lines look broken and just writing "BUS STOP" in white letters doesn't make it one, so you're right, it is a layby.

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Andrew.

It certainly could, Ernest. IMO it's only a matter of time before someone whose tyres have been wrecked by speed bumps has a blowout resulting in a major catstrophe and sues the council involved - but of course this inevitably means that someone will have died or been seriously injured.

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I think I've just found out why all my tyres have worn more on the inside edge despite the alighment being correct.

I go over a lot of speed bumps.

Time to sue the council for a new set of Eagle F1s?

Absolutely right - and it's because it's the inside (less visible) edge that gets worn that these wretched things are so dangerous. If I were you, I would sue them - try the Small Claims Court; not expensive for you, and it might give the b******s some pause for thought.

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I always make sure I rev the tits off the car between each hump and then go over as slowly as humanly possible on the hump. This cause maximum nuisnace and annoyance to the local arseholes who asked for the humps and they either deserve everything they get in terms of a poor quality local environment or will re-consider and ask the council to remove the humps, as has happened in a few areas recently.

Trouble is that in some instances the locals did not ask for humps - in the case of Bulkington ( was called Bumpington at one time) -the humps were installed by the County against the wishes of the locals, the local councillors and the county councillors. Real democracy in action - and then after soe time half of them were taken out - installed with EU money - removed using County funds ---- any other business someone would get a P45 GT

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lets bring sanity back to speed limits.
Drivers are like donkeys -they respond best to a carrot, not a stick .Road safety experts are like Asses - best kept covered up ,or sat on

I must admit, where I live the chav scum in their chavved-up-chicken-chasers really do get on my tits.

So - as I see it - speed humps are the best thing for them; every 10 yards as far as I am concerned! Do we really think they will race along risking damage to the £20 front air dam their chavvy mate fitted to their jalopy?

Perhaps then they will piss off somewhere else where there are no humps at all and bring a little peace to the rest of us.

WS

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Safe yet Swift.

Sorry wenlock you're out of order there.

Feel free to look down your nose on other people's finances and hobbies, but dont try to ram it down other people's throats. As said above also - all speed bumps achieve is to immensely piss off anyone who has to negotiate them.

So now you have not only a Chav with a loud exhaust - you have a Chav with a loud exhaust and a bad mood making as much noise as possible just to spite the people who wanted the speed bumps.

P.S. would it make any difference to your point of view if someone had worked their arse off for years to afford an expensive low car, say, a Ferrari, but was denied the use of the roads because of tank traps built on them?

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Agreed.

I was a little inflammatory there wasn't I

WS

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Safe yet Swift.

Wenlocksimon, not inflammatory, just off the mark!

The chavvy b******s round my way don't need humps as an excuse; it comes naturally.
They also need the loud exhaust and louder stereos to drown the sound of their clapped out, thrashed to death engines!