speed bumps vs class of area

[fenton_jd]

In my near two years of owning a license, I've come to notice that traffic calming in areas with posh houses are almost non-existent.

For example. There is a road near the entrance of my old school.

It's called hollyhead road, a straight Roman road and the houses all the way down the one side must each cost upwards of 300,000 each at a minimum.

This is a 40mph dead straight road in an almost built up area. Big downhill crest with a school towards the end.

I could easily reach the top speed of my car on this stretch of road, so you'd think it'd be covered in speed cameras, chicanes, speed bumps etc.

Nothing, but a solar powered "slow down" sign that comes on sometimes.

I used to go to this school years ago, and a pupil was hit by a car doing 40mph right next to where i was standing. 6 years later, the only device that has been installed is a basic pedestrian crossing.

Why does my council house street have speed humps every few yards, but a road like this has nothing?

 

[custard]

one reason maybe that middleclass people tend to be far more proactive with regards to things going on in their areas
so if they get a whiff of a speedbump going in they will have a petition etc sorted in no time

 

[fenton_jd]

one reason maybe that middleclass people tend to be far more proactive with regards to things going on in their areas
so if they get a whiff of a speedbump going in they will have a petition etc sorted in no time

So true.

You'd also think that these BMW M5 owners etc would find it painful sticking to 30mph.

 

[StevenRB45]

So true.

You'd also think that these BMW M5 owners etc would find it painful sticking to 30mph.

Considering most round our way run Dub 2s and elastic band profile tires they also find it painful running over rizla papers that have been carelessly dropped in the street..

 

[smokeyjoe03]

There is a road near us at a set of lights, on quite a busy road that has signs saying nor right turn (of left depending which way you are coming). However you can go into the road if you are going straight across. from the other side..
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Basically you can't turn where the red lines are showing.....and all because the houses down "posh street" are owned by snobbish people who applied to the council (or whoever) to stop so much traffic going down there. Instead we have to do a 2.5 mile detour to get to the other end of that street.

:bang:Why do they always get their own way:bang:

 

[Kier]

If you are coming from the bottom...cant you turn right, and then just do a 3-point turn? And go straight across?

 

[missey]

:bang:Why do they always get their own way:bang:

:yeahthat:

Although, round here, it seems that the posh roads get more speed bumps:shrug: Think that they don't really care if a few chav's get squished.

But what really got my wick is this....

The red dot is a counselor's house, the blue route is a diversion so traffic can no longer go past his house, this led to a couple of years of traffic missery and millions of pounds spent on the new bridge to take local traffic through the industrial estate, with HGV's and all other forklifts etc moving around. At the exit tunnel (left of pic) there is a victorian small bridge, that is one at a time only, controlled by lights, just to make it that bit worse. Then for the rest of Frenches road, its all speed bumps!! yay!

No-one wanted this, and since it has changed, quite a few cars, (unaware that frenches road is bus route only now and it has got those horrible poles that come out of the ground)
have been travelling behind the bus and been lifted in the air and the car written off, once the bollards pop back up. Then they have to spend a few more grand fixing them again :bang:

http://www.merstham.co.uk/merstham/holmethorpe3.htm

(link is safe, just shows what a waste of money and how much public was against the whole idea) But one fat little man got his own way...how?

 

[ChrisUK]

On the otherhand where I used to live the average house price was £300,000+ there was shed loads of "Traffic calming". I went through a set of tyres in 6 months due to scrubbing them on the inside over the stupid tri speed bumps.

 

[Lloyd71]

No-one wanted this, and since it has changed, quite a few cars, (unaware that frenches road is bus route only now and it has got those horrible poles that come out of the ground)
have been travelling behind the bus and been lifted in the air and the car written off, once the bollards pop back up. Then they have to spend a few more grand fixing them again :bang:

They've done that sort of thing near where my friend lives, we watched a guy the other day drive up a sloped bit of pavement with his left wheels on the raised area and drive half on the pavement past the bollards in his original Mini

 

[missey]

lmao...has made me wonder if you could handbrake turn a smart car through the gap :devil:

 

[smokeyjoe03]

If you are coming from the bottom...cant you turn right, and then just do a 3-point turn? And go straight across?

Thats what a lot of people do, stupid really, causes lots of congestion during rush hour.

 

[Lolita]

cant get ferrari over speed bumps...

 

[punto_matt]

Why does my council house street have speed humps every few yards, but a road like this has nothing?

Because joyriders wont go down posh street as they dont live down there and it is likely to have a much lower flow of traffic which means its a waste of money installing them.

cant get ferrari over speed bumps...

Yeah they can. You press a button on the dash which lifts the front up.

 

[Tris Harris]

they just put speed bumps and traffic calming measures in when they are low on work dont they?

although the materials they use for these measure would be much better used filling/ resurfacing roads with potholes in my opinion

 

[Ulpian]

I wouldn't buy a house in a street with speed bumps. And I'm not unique I suppose. People who own their houses bother to make a fuss because they have something to lose if the area is spoiled. Such people are often articulate and used to petitioning and making a fuss anyway.

People who live on council estates either don't, or can't, read their mail, and anyway can't be bothered to do anything for themselves in any area of life, let alone local developments. They accept whatever comes their way, and then moan when they don't like it. But they don't actually DO anything.

I live on a council estate so i know what I'm talking about. Fortunately we don't have bumps, but I know one that does, and they are regular hard-edged mountains that must destroy cars. It's a 'deprived' area that has become even more isolated by its vile road network, and the blanked off roads which are supposed to stop rat-runs and protect children. The result has been total seclusion and a ghetto-like feel to the place. Some people, including emergency services, won't go without a police escort. It was here that an ambulance went to a hoax call and, while the crew was discovering the con, had all its wheels nicked.

But the chavs are the first to complain of course when one of their many little feral darlings gets ticked off by a teacher or cuts itself breaking a car window!

Of course, they do these things better abroad, with chicanes and planting, but we have ignorant and statist local authorities who sometimes pay lip service to public consultation but actually always go along with the first idea that one of their friends in the construction industry first thought of. And I suppose if you made some of these estates lovely they'd trash the street furniture and nick the plants...

What with the corrupt politicians at one end and the dependency culture at the other, I feel quite hard done by sometimes, going to work and paying tax and all...

 

[jenks69]

I live on a scum bag estate and I've got 16 speed bumps between my flat and the main road in or out! Unless I take my chance in the lanes then I can get out of the estate without a single speed bump, but it's a nightmare as too many idiots use the lanes like a race track

I'm seriously considering getting another van or a 4x4 as I've spent fortunes on tyres and suspension parts in the last few years! Had my new cinq on the road for about three weeks and already it makes horrid bangs and knocks when I go over the bumps, even at crawling pace :bang:

 

[claymore]

As a takeaway driver I have to brave the areas of various class to complete the drive. Out of all the drives I've done, the less well off areas are the worst affected. Some are so bad I choose to walk the distance to the destination. One of the areas in Buckstone in Edinburgh is simply a joke, there are speed bumps all over the place some even in no through roads. Given the fact the area itself is just a no-through road you'd wonder why. There is a school at the top which would be the reason and I could understand why the main road would be plagued with the things but the entire area? http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=buckston&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=18.881334,39.375&ie=UTF8&ll=55.906019,-3.201163&spn=0.00872,0.019226&z=16

 

[The Beard]

If anybody in the Manchester area knows Mount Road that runs from Levenshulme to Gorton, they know all about speed humps. There are a series of humps on that road that I won't hit at more than 15 mph in the Panda. They are in 20 zone and are actually really well constructed in terms of the approach and exit ramps but are higher than the surrounding pavement in places.

The main problem is that the first of them is still in the 30 zone and the last is
after the 20 zone enes. If you're not on the ball, or it's dark, it could end up costing you a load of money.

How the Council haven't been sued yet I do not know.