Speed bumps - do they work?I am getting increasingly fed up of negotiating my way through chicanes and speed bumps only 40 yards apart on some roads in this vicinity.
One chicane has been put in place and as you approach it from the side without the right of way, because of a small hill, you can actually find yourself going through it 'blind'.
A former colleague of mine had such problems with them that his wife, who has an extreme back condition, was unable to go out in the car at all because of the effects of these bumps around their home. The same applies to my aged mum, [ although in fairness, getting her into a car is a major operation in its own right.]
In the end the situation became so dire with hospital appointments et al that they were forced to move house.
Needless to say, in under a year this new dwelling became surrounded with them!
Once again the innocent are punished in order to curtail the guilty but does that work? - Seemingly not, as speedbumps and chicanes are extra fun for the so-called joyriders who carry on at exaggerated speeds whatever the road conditions. I suspect that these are the people who should have been targeted with draconian sentencing.
A recent letter on text indicates that in a southern county [Somerset as I recall], a massive placement of speed bumps has coincided with a RISE in road deaths.
I write this piece because this morning a van nearly struck my car in its attempts to wriggle past the wretched things.
On closes, cul de sacs, narrow urban areas choc a bloc with housing and where children play in the street itself - maybe. Outside schools - fine.
But don't you get the feeling that this is just the anti-car lobby doing all in its power to be spiteful? Isn't this more of the same in matters such as when perfectly acceptable parking spaces suddenly see double yellow lines appear from nowhere?
Remember. These measures keep cars out on the roads LONGER and therefore add significantly to air pollution.
