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[AT Boatyard]

Hi everyone have a look at this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBDQPYcyjqs

regards
Alan

[raflaunches]

If only that was real, it would certainly make people slow down!

Nick B

[john s 2]

Please dont give my Council ideas. John.

[Norseman]

Though usually I am an inoffensive guy -
I would like to thump the guy who decided to put bumps
on 30mph main roads that you can't even hit at 15mph

Oh yes 

Dave

[raflaunches]

I would to share a funny story involving speed bumps and cameras...

Many years ago a recently promoted RAF station commander decided as his first change to station policy etc, that he would slow the traffic flowing through the camp.  The speed restriction was already 20-25mph around the main road on the base but he wanted extra restrictions. 
So he got the RAF police speed cameras and had speed bumps built all around the camp, but the plan backfired and strangely all cameras were removed, it was discovered that the first person to be caught speeding on the base was the station commander's wife!
Needless to say his attitude changed for the better and became one of the best commanding officers in the RAF.

Nick B

[Colin Bishop]

If you collected all the material used to build speed bumps it would probably be enough to fill in all the potholes. I agree with Norseman that there are some real so and sos out there which I doubt are legal. In France, each village seems to have their own take on vehicle restrictions from chicanes to bumps and various other odd things such as a roundabout with flashing lights built into the kerb which are presumably intended to indicate in which direction you should take it.

I remember one small village in deepest France which had a whole series of speed bumps along the very straight main street. After the first two or three you adjusted your speed to negotiate them without too much of a problem but the cunning ****** made the last one twice as high as the rest which dislodged some of the fillings in my teeth.

Of course the real purpose of UK speed bumps is to relieve pressure on the NHS. After your heart attack, the ambulance takes off at high speed for the nearest A&E and the speed bumps on the way ensure that you are DOA.

Colin

[Norseman]

I was in agony with kidney stones and eventually I woke my wife at 5:30 and said take me to hospital.
She got washed, dressed, fixed hair, fed dog, let it out in the garden, waited, went back in for perfume,
 ............ and then drove me over at least thirty speed bumps ............oh the pure agony of each bump
in that little punto - it was like looping the shower scene from physcho.

Dave

[Colin Bishop]

Do you still have the same wife?

[Norseman]

Yes - God love her

When we got to the hospital she started looking for somewhere to park
and was talking about going and getting change for the machine ...............

I used all the expletives I had been saving for years and then crawled out
the car door at the A&E ambulance access.

Dave

[dougal99]

we have chicanes and speed bumps in adjacent roads. The bumps are just narrow enough so tha all the white van men can ignore them with impunity and then see how fast they can get from one chicane to the next. The other sport is seeing how close you can get to an oncoming vehicle that has right of way at the chicane before he is forced to brake. 

[Norseman]

white van men can ignore them with impunity

True - in my works Transit Connect the bumps are much less noticeable than in my little Punto.
Boy racers and nutters aren't bothered by the bumps either. I don't object in the side roads / estates
but I do on main roads - especially on bends - more likely to cause an accident really.

Dave