How to blow £100k resurfacing a road and make it worse >.<

My Mini Cooper S doesnt go over many of these cushions. And it isnt a track toy nor is it a chav-mobile.
 
Joe T said:
My Mini Cooper S doesnt go over many of these cushions. And it isnt a track toy nor is it a chav-mobile.
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Doesnt go over as in you must turn around and go back?

Or doesn't go over as in you cannot straddle it - this is completely normal. It just means you slow down and drive over it.
 
[TW]Fox;21353394 said:
Doesnt go over as in you must turn around and go back?

Or doesn't go over as in you cannot straddle it - this is completely normal. It just means you slow down and drive over it.
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It means I have to slow down to c.10mph and have one wheel on it and one off. Slows down the rest of the traffic no end.
 
Joe T said:
My Mini Cooper S doesnt go over many of these cushions. And it isnt a track toy nor is it a chav-mobile.
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The standard ground clearance on a mini cooper s is 4.8-5.3 inches depending on the version, so I am surprised you cannot get over a 3inch speed cushion.
 
shoes said:
They're utterly ridiculous, as are all speed humps, simply penalising the motorist once again to protect pedestrians against their perceived inability to not be able to cross a road without looking first.

You have to question whether we need such dumb people on the planet anyway...
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I find this attitude amazing! Lets face it most speed bump areas are on bits of road "some" people used to drive at dangerous speeds on. I can not think of a single stretch of road near my house that does not fit this general rule.

Whilst as a motorist speed bumps are the bane of my life; slowing down and having my spine put out of place on certain types etc etc, but with the idiots on the roads (of which there is lots), I would much rather things like that be in place for the one time a child doesn't think and runs off from a parent, than see a story in the paper saying they had been killed.

While children and adults "should" cross roads safely they don't always and if you would rather see more deaths on the road and put it down to natural selection just so you can have a smooth bump free ride home then :rolleyes:
 
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At least your council resurface roads in need of repair. Our council like to resurface that bypass that was built 5 years ago every 5 years even though it was already as smooth as a pensioners turd, yet they leave the bad roads to get worse and worse.
 
Joe T said:
It means I have to slow down to c.10mph and have one wheel on it and one off. Slows down the rest of the traffic no end.
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Well thats pretty much the point in speed humps. Annoying as they are, you can't exactly sail over normal speed ramps at 30mph can you? You need to slow right down for all of them anyway - the only difference with cushions is that some of us are lucky enough to be able to straddle them.
 
Lethagized said:
At least your council resurface roads in need of repair. Our council like to resurface that bypass that was built 5 years ago every 5 years even though it was already as smooth as a pensioners turd, yet they leave the bad roads to get worse and worse.
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Don't forget the general rule when it comes to road maintenance decisions:

Does a councillor or other suitably important person live near or use the road on a daily basis? if so resurface......

If not; is the road ok for the unwashed plebs to get about on with moderate discomfort? if so leave for another 5 years.....

Else; Is the road falling apart and causing us to recieve lots of complaints and is giving us a really bad reputation? if so resurface on the run up to elections...
 
Well it looks like the local residents have already formed a campaign to get their full sized humps back lol, that didn't take long.


Dr Who said:
Hogwash tbh, if they cause more damage, then just drive one side over the middle, still half the damage of a speed bump.

Link to these studys please so we can laugh at them, as cornering on a roundabout will put more stress on a sidewall than a speedcushion.
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Roundabouts don't make contact with the side wall, Here's a better explanation of how it works form the motoring column guy at the Telegraph:

Metre-wide, chamfered-edge speed cushions are a relatively new phenomenon devised not to impede the progress of fire engines and large goods vehicles. They were very briefly and inadequately tested by the TRRL in 2004, but never tested for their long-term effect on car tyres.

It’s clear that if a car straddles a speed cushion with both inner sidewalls on the chamfered edges of those speed cushions, the combined forces are bound to damage the inner shoulders of the tyres. Since this is hidden damage, cars could be driven with tyres about to blow out.
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src: http://www.etyres.co.uk/news/honest-john-warns-motorists-about-speed-cushions-4688.html

Heres a couple of other cool links on it:

http://www.stdrivers.co.uk/forum/topic/13348-speed-humpcushion-tyre-damage/
http://www.bromleytransport.org.uk/Humps.htm
 
[TW]Fox;21353472 said:
Well thats pretty much the point in speed humps. Annoying as they are, you can't exactly sail over normal speed ramps at 30mph can you? You need to slow right down for all of them anyway - the only difference with cushions is that some of us are lucky enough to be able to straddle them.
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Precisely. Why should some cars be able to go over them at 30-40mph and other cars cant? What does that achieve?
 
Just put one of those smiley/frowny speed scanners on the road, everyone knows how good they are..........n't

People will and do speed inbetween speedbump
Those cushiony things, people drive around them
Cameras, people speed up to and after them
Rumble stripes are just annoying and loud
The only real speed trap that works is average speed cameras, they keep people slower for long.

Not that I'm a fan of anything used to slow people down
 
ubersonic said:
Well it looks like the local residents have already formed a campaign to get their full sized humps back lol, that didn't take long.

Roundabouts don't make contact with the side wall, Here's a better explanation of how it works form the motoring column guy at the Telegraph:
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Nothing in there suggests that it is anything linked to speed cushions, pure speculation and far from a study. A speed cushion makes no contact with the sidewall, it compresses the inside edge of the tyre if you go over them at higher speed than they are designed for.

Usual scaremongering with "47 deaths attributable to tyre blow outs" the largest reason by far for tyre blowouts is driving at high speed with underinflated tyres.

Show me some evidence that links speed cushions to blow outs, rather than a motoring journalist coming up with some speculative causation.

honestjohn said:
Since the numbers of speed cushions have risen since 2007, the number of deaths caused by tyre damage by them must also have increased.
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has to be the BS statement of the century.
 
I have to take half the car over speed cushions aswell , i fear for the underside my car with it being lowered 60mm, they do work for a lot of people round where i live, tend to find most people stick to the 20mph limit due to them and the ramps.
 
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