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Brent P
Children's safety ?? The humps REDUCE visibility (they usually have trees and poo beside them), and they give the driver something else to concentrate on besides the road ahead.
Not to mention the fact that someone driving over a hump is in less control of their car than someone on a flat piece of road (unless they have good shocks).
I thought the point of them was to stop residents being annoyed by the noise of hoons hooning down the street..
In fact, where I live, the main use of them is for 'traffic shaping', ie. they put speed humps on ALL the side streets near a main road, to encourage people to stay on the main road rather than taking a shortcut.
Why don't they want people taking shortcuts? My guess, in order of likeliness: 1) The socialist government seems to have an agenda to make driving as difficult and expensive as possible, so that people use public transport instead (Why? Who knows.) 2) Residents being annoyed at high traffic rates on their supposedly quiet street. 3) Many 'shortcut takers' will drive carelessly through back-street intersections with poor visibility, and have crashes.
