No Access to Home without Several Speed Humps

Strider590

Rossy. wrote: »

It's a limit not a target !

Drive down the M42 at 35mph and tell that to the traffic officer.

Strider590

johnson293 wrote: »

Its easy to say drop the speed limit, but the reason speed bumps were forced to be introduced was due to people ignoring speed limits, and thus driving OVER 30mph in built up areas.

So they can put up signs with 20 or 30mph, but if people want to drive too fast they will.

At least with Speed bumps, the driver then takes the risk of damaging their car if they insist on still driving too fast over them.

If the limit is 30mph, then 30mph is the safe maximum speed.... If speed bumps make it unsafe at that speed then the limit needs to be reduced OR the bumps removed....

cyclonebri1

Strider590 wrote: »

If the limit is 30mph, then 30mph is the safe maximum speed.... If speed bumps make it unsafe at that speed then the limit needs to be reduced OR the bumps removed....[/QUOTE]


Methinks that's the point. We should be able to pass at 30 in a 30 limit without major discomfort or vehicular damage? or have I got this all wrong? :A

Inactive

Surely you should drive within the speed limit, at an appropriate speed for road /traffic/weather conditions.

If everybody did this, there would be no speed humps.;)

Lum

Strider590 wrote: »

I was driving to meet a friend in Rubery a few years ago (at night), I rounded a corner on a 40mph road only to find a huge unmarked speed bump.

You shouldn't have been going around that corner at 40, regardless of the speed limit. You should always drive such that you are able to completely stop in the distance you can see to be clear (or the speed limit if it's lower, which it often is these days). That speed bump could easily have been a cyclist who had fallen off their bike.

Assuming your description is accurate it's a pretty poorly positioned hump and it shouldn't be there, but you get little sympathy from me for the additional damage you sustained due to going too fast around that corner.

That said, I have never heard of a speed bump in a 40 before. Are you sure you didn't just miss a 20 or 30 sign?

Strider590

^^ No it was a 40 (or badly sign posted) and there was NO street lighting, I'd come down from 40 to around 30 for the corner, my attention was focused on the road ahead and into the distance (where I should be focused) and not on the road directly in front of the car.
The bump was practically invisible in the dark anyway, I had to turn around and go back just to see what the hell it was.

Hintza

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Repeatedly traversing humps causes long-term damage to vehicle components, especially the suspension. This in turn has serious implications for safety and stopping distances. Shock absorbers are key in ensuring vehicles are able to stop effectively and safely - perhaps if a child ran in front of a car. Residents of areas plagued with speed humps find they have to replace their shock absorbers far more often. Humps can even cause immediate damage to the bodywork of large vehicles such as buses, to the underside of cars with low ground clearance, and wreck front number plates, spoilers and exhausts. Goods carried in vehicles can also be damaged.

• Speed humps are nothing more than inverted potholes. Whilst local councils readily admit that potholes are dangerous and cause damage to vehicles, they intentionally install speed humps which are just as dangerous, and then try to deny that they cause damage.
• A speed hump on Corporation Street in Birmingham had to be rebuilt after numerous double-decker buses suffered damage to their front bodywork.
• A Birmingham bus company threatened to withdraw services from two roads when the council tried to install large speed humps, because of damage caused to low floor buses elsewhere in the city. The council backed down and installed 'speed cushions' instead. Article from the Evening Mail
• Fire Engines fitted with a water tank containing up to 2,250 litres may suffer structural damage so great that it puts the appliance off the road, and results in a massive repair bill.
• It's not just drivers who face increased costs. In Hastings in November 2002, taxi fares were increased by 10p during the day and 20p at night to pay for the increased cost of maintenance due to damage caused by traversing speed humps up to 200 times per day.
• Speed humps in Uppingham, Rutland, caused a lorry to shed it's load of meat, blocking the road for hours.
  Article & photo from the Rutland & Stamford Mercury
• In 2004, the Metropolitan Police told the London Assembly 34 of its vehicles had been damaged by speed bumps in a three month period. A subsequent report issued by the London Assembly's transport committee stated that the cost of this damage was £7,500. BBC
• We have recieved reports that the Rover Metro is particularly probe to damage to the sump-drainage valve.
• In June 2006, a wheel fell off a bus as it was traversing speed humps on Dunnet Road in Plymouth.
  Story from the Plymouth Herald

cyclonebri1

Inactive wrote: »

Surely you should drive within the speed limit, at an appropriate speed for road /traffic/weather conditions.

If everybody did this, there would be no speed humps.;)

So is 30 in a 30 not acceptable given the conditions??

And given perfect conditions is it not unreasonable to expect to be able to travel at 30 without disscomfort or damage??

Lum

Strider590 wrote: »

^^ No it was a 40 (or badly sign posted) and there was NO street lighting, I'd come down from 40 to around 30 for the corner, my attention was focused on the road ahead and into the distance (where I should be focused) and not on the road directly in front of the car.
The bump was practically invisible in the dark anyway, I had to turn around and go back just to see what the hell it was.

Ok I guess that's a little different then. My apologies.

Also, Hintza, you should post the rest of that article. It's a very good article.

Inactive

cyclonebri1 wrote: »

So is 30 in a 30 not acceptable given the conditions??

And given perfect conditions is it not unreasonable to expect to be able to travel at 30 without disscomfort or damage??

The " conditions " are; there are speed reducing bumps there to reduce the speed of vehicles, so you should reduce speed accordingly.;):)