In article , Wolfgang Schwanke
wrote:


That shows that people in your area are not accustomed to speed bumps
and view them as a "novelty". That is foremost a cultural problem. It
doesn't show they're useless, because they work elsewhere. Over here
they're installed in front of most schools and in many residential
areas. It really does help to keep the traffic away or at least slow
down, when signs alown won't do it because drivers choose to ignore
them. So if they insist to speed out of neglect, they can be forced to
slow down. Remember speed bumps aren't meant to help car drivers,
they're meant to help pedestrians as a defence _against_ ruthless
drivers. Works. Incidentally the Dutch word is "drempel", reminiscent
of the sound a car makes when driving over one.

Regards

All speedbumps do is create small zones of confusion wrt how fast a car
will go. Some cars will virtually stop while other can take the bump at
speed. In between the speedbumps drivers will still speed and may
actually go faster to make up time for being unnecessarily delays by
the useless speedbumps

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Bob Noel
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