This isn't a Motors related post, I need some advice about a massively over engineered speed bump at the college I attend.
The college campus has two student car parks which both involve going along a speed bump infested road. I have no real problems with speed management in built up places and in all honestly can’t see how they can control speed at the college without speed bumps.
But, in the colleges bid to control speed they seem to have made a few errors. Firstly one of the speed bumps doubles up as a pedestrian crossing. Not so bad, but this means it needs to be the same height as a kerb. Also it is wide to accommodate more than a single line of people over it. Now these factors start to add up and the fact that it’s also built on a hill means that that it is actually quite a task to drive over. It causes people to slow down extremely slow. You have to ride the clutch to get over and still the bottom of your car will scrape. I’ve seen numerous cars; not just low modified cars but larger family vehicles such as Mk5 Golfs, people carriers etc.
It gets worse on the way back down as of the angle of the car means the back end of your car is forced back down onto the bump and this is actually causing damage to the bump. It is littered with deep gouges from the underside of people’s cars so I hate to think what it must be doing to exhaust and suspension components.
The college principal’s view on it is simply that if you drive over it at 5Mph it is fine. I beg to differ. I have to crawl over it in my car, on the wrong side of the road and it still scrapes. Ok my car may be lowered, but I’m one of many people with lowered cars AND it isn’t just low cars, as I mentioned earlier it’s a whole variety of cars.
The principal insists she’s within her rights and that the speed bump is fine. I think it’s a disgrace, how they can expect people to everyday have to try and scale Mount Speed bump. They also encourage car sharing, well if a car 5 up with people tried to get over it, I can only dread to think what would happen.
They offer no alternative to it. You used to be able to drive around it, but some clever person in an office who probably catches the bus to work has decided to have 4 rocks cemented in the way.
So, what can be done about this? What are the height limits for the bump? How should I go about complaining?
Bit of a long post but I needed a rant and needed to supply sufficient info.
Cheers.
The college campus has two student car parks which both involve going along a speed bump infested road. I have no real problems with speed management in built up places and in all honestly can’t see how they can control speed at the college without speed bumps.
But, in the colleges bid to control speed they seem to have made a few errors. Firstly one of the speed bumps doubles up as a pedestrian crossing. Not so bad, but this means it needs to be the same height as a kerb. Also it is wide to accommodate more than a single line of people over it. Now these factors start to add up and the fact that it’s also built on a hill means that that it is actually quite a task to drive over. It causes people to slow down extremely slow. You have to ride the clutch to get over and still the bottom of your car will scrape. I’ve seen numerous cars; not just low modified cars but larger family vehicles such as Mk5 Golfs, people carriers etc.
It gets worse on the way back down as of the angle of the car means the back end of your car is forced back down onto the bump and this is actually causing damage to the bump. It is littered with deep gouges from the underside of people’s cars so I hate to think what it must be doing to exhaust and suspension components.
The college principal’s view on it is simply that if you drive over it at 5Mph it is fine. I beg to differ. I have to crawl over it in my car, on the wrong side of the road and it still scrapes. Ok my car may be lowered, but I’m one of many people with lowered cars AND it isn’t just low cars, as I mentioned earlier it’s a whole variety of cars.
The principal insists she’s within her rights and that the speed bump is fine. I think it’s a disgrace, how they can expect people to everyday have to try and scale Mount Speed bump. They also encourage car sharing, well if a car 5 up with people tried to get over it, I can only dread to think what would happen.
They offer no alternative to it. You used to be able to drive around it, but some clever person in an office who probably catches the bus to work has decided to have 4 rocks cemented in the way.
So, what can be done about this? What are the height limits for the bump? How should I go about complaining?
Bit of a long post but I needed a rant and needed to supply sufficient info.
Cheers.
