Raised crossing in earl street

shoes

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Pesky VOSA! My heart sinks whenever one of them is behind me in the track car, I just know they'd love it
 

henryscat

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When a set of springs and dampers costs over £800 for your car and regardless of how slowly you take speed humps it will inflict (albeit minor in an isolated case) damage upon said suspension components and tyres are also over £500 a set you tend to take issue with councils littering the roads with raised humps, usually for no real benefit to anyone (although in this case I can see the benefit to pedestrians) whilst leaving gaping holes in other roads

Speed humps do not do that sort of damage to your car.
 

gilesjuk

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Personally I think it is ball joints and bushes that wear out faster as a result. Just thought I would bring balls and bushes into the conversation.
 

tek-monkey

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Surely if a vehicle has legal road clearance and is travelling at a legal speed then any damage caused by speed bumps would have to be reimbursed by the council? Gotta admit I did literally lol when a nob in a Vauxhall hit it at around 45 and smashed the **** out of his chassis, he left his back box behind so was looking at a decent repair bill. If he was a local that is monkey going to local garages, that's a good thing!
 

henryscat

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Cumulatively they do particularly relating to spring failure. Unless of course you have evidence to back up your assertion?

People who damage their suspension serisously are usually the numpties who have not adjusted their driving in response to traffic calming. It never ceases to amaze me how many people seem to aim to become air borne going over speed humps rather than just slow to a sensible speed.

Also remember why traffic calming is there. It is a response to the inability of drivers to behave sensibly and safely towards pedestrians and other vulnerable road users. Those of you whinging about traffic calming would undoubtedly also complain if speed humps were taken out in favour of camera enforcement of 20mph zones because that would just be a revenue generating scheme wouldn't it?
 

proactive

Enjoying a drop of red.
People who damage their suspension serisously are usually the numpties who have not adjusted their driving in response to traffic calming. It never ceases to amaze me how many people seem to aim to become air borne going over speed humps rather than just slow to a sensible speed.

Also remember why traffic calming is there. It is a response to the inability of drivers to behave sensibly and safely towards pedestrians and other vulnerable road users. Those of you whinging about traffic calming would undoubtedly also complain if speed humps were taken out in favour of camera enforcement of 20mph zones because that would just be a revenue generating scheme wouldn't it?
Surprise surprise, you didn't see fit to respond to my point except with further subjective ranting :roll:
 

Gramaisc

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I would be quite happy to see the 'traffic calming' measures removed and speed limits to be actively enforced. The culture of lazily penalising everybody for the faults of others is getting rather too general..
 

tek-monkey

wanna see my snake?
I'd like earl street to be passenger or service vehicles only, it's not like there is any other reason to use it other than to enter the guildhall car park. But hey, I don't drive.
 

henryscat

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Surprise surprise, you didn't see fit to respond to my point except with further subjective ranting :roll:

I note you haven't posted anything substantive to prove any damage is done to vehicles that are correctly driven over traffic calming feature.
 

henryscat

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I would be quite happy to see the 'traffic calming' measures removed and speed limits to be actively enforced. The culture of lazily penalising everybody for the faults of others is getting rather too general..
The problem is politics. All the Daily Mail readers will bleat enforcement of the law in respect of speeding is "revenue generation" rather than recognising it as law enforcement for the sake of road safety.
 

Gramaisc

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The problem is politics. All the Daily Mail readers will bleat enforcement of the law in respect of speeding is "revenue generation" rather than recognising it as law enforcement for the sake of road safety.
Let them bleat. Bleating* has little, if any, effect here - as far as I can see...

*Or strongly held and loudly articulated principles, depending upon whether I agree with them, or not..
 
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