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our Local Council have been busy lowering the Kerbs for the Disabled, while totally ignoringthe broken Road Surface for the Driver!!, who is the one paying for the Roads after all

EH?

the Roads here are like a dirt track anyway!

I Am considering a 4x4 to combat the problem as it is

Hang on if they are lowering the curves, is this not reducing their deflection effect if a car loses contol and reducing the safety of pedestrians?

Think your self grateful. Here, they are HEIGHTENING the kerbs by bus stops. In some cases higher than the doorstep on the buses !

Again, think yourself gfreatful. Aylesbury town centre has these wonderful alloy-eating curbs that are a few inches higher then normal curbs, stick out at about a 20 degree angle and are made of solid stone of some sort with a sharp edge.

Combine them with on street parking with bays barely wide enough to contain a car and over zealous traffic wardens and well, alloys don't last long. I usually park somewhere else to protect them. These things completely wrecked the spokes of my company car when I had it.

are those the tyreshredder™ granite-compound jobbies? abrasive sharp edges that can literally cut open a tyre if you so much as nudge it while parking?

I can't begin to imagine the purpose of them, other than pure car-hating sadism

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