ZetecVan 2.0 Posted June 4, 2008 Report Posted June 4, 2008 So I drives to work yesterday and on turning the corner to the car park, I am greeted with this... They are 100mm high speed bumps. Not one. But FOUR SETS. Yesterday a girl in a corsa got stuck on them, and a mate with a Type R scraped his underside. Even Transit vans have a problem. Because of the narrow width of the road outside, you can't go wide and come at them straight. You have to take them at an angle rocking you from side to side. So I go home and measure the clearance on the van. I think I'm going to have problems....
mossy Posted June 4, 2008 Report Posted June 4, 2008 park the van at the beggining and block the road up!
X-pack-Glyn Posted June 4, 2008 Report Posted June 4, 2008 Who owns the road mate? and do you fancy a new exhaust? get the complaints in and rip the system off on one. we have em and im sick and tired of having to hold traffic up, i noticed a council van behind me once so i made a point of taking an age to get over em. ive sent in a letter but as yet have heard nothing.
Toby Posted June 4, 2008 Report Posted June 4, 2008 It's your own fault you lot must be so keen to leave work at the end of the day....
Stu_B Posted June 4, 2008 Report Posted June 4, 2008 I think 100mm is the legal max... I'll check at work tomorrow
Trevmk3 Posted June 4, 2008 Report Posted June 4, 2008 hit the firtst one quick enough and you'llmiss the rest of them Mike
ZetecVan 2.0 Posted June 4, 2008 Author Report Posted June 4, 2008 I think 100mm is the legal max... I'll check at work tomorrow Yeah it is. They've gone for the max. I was going to go down in the van and abandon it over them, because it would get stuck.
DEP Posted June 4, 2008 Report Posted June 4, 2008 Maybe they had some left over from a previous job, and thought they would put them all there
ZetecVan 2.0 Posted June 4, 2008 Author Report Posted June 4, 2008 Ok, just found this on the HSE website Humps should be repeated at intervals along a route and should not be used within 15 m of a junction or bend. Humps are only suitable for routes where vehicles can go over the humps safely. Speed hump warning signs should be clearly visible, and should be far enough away from the hump to allow drivers to change their speed safely. The humps themselves should also be clearly marked See how many regulations they are breaking. 1. Humps should be repeated at intervals along a route and should not be used within 15 m of a junction or bend. They are less than 15cm from the junction. 2. Humps are only suitable for routes where vehicles can go over the humps safely. Well, they're on a corner at a junction. 3. Speed hump warning signs should be clearly visible, and should be far enough away from the hump to allow drivers to change their speed safely. There are no warning signs, and as they're on a corner you don't see them until you're on top of them. I think that page is going to be printed out and left on someones desk tomorrow.
awesome Posted June 4, 2008 Report Posted June 4, 2008 So I drives to work yesterday and on turning the corner to the car park, I am greeted with this... . I think they have put the first set down on top of the white stop line, dont think thats allowed phone the road signage dept i bet they would get the first set taken away. But i think the best thing would be dig the fookers out in the night or petrol and some thing hot sort of disolves them
Mr Sam Posted June 4, 2008 Report Posted June 4, 2008 WTF........why not just stick a big fence there if they dont want people using the road, as it looks like they dont want anyone down there
Stu_B Posted June 4, 2008 Report Posted June 4, 2008 Is it public highway or private land... If it's private then you can't do jack & be thankfull they're only 100mm as that's the max they're manufactured to
ZetecVan 2.0 Posted June 4, 2008 Author Report Posted June 4, 2008 The picture is taken from inside the car park. The road going from left to right is a public road running around the perimeter of the site. We approach from the left. There are some houses further down on the right.
Stu_B Posted June 4, 2008 Report Posted June 4, 2008 Contact the council then mate. The fact that there's stop lines down mean it's a dangerous junction with little visibility & those pads will add to the hazard of people entering & exiting the junction... not to mention it must be highway land as they laid the stop markings
over_head_cam Posted June 4, 2008 Report Posted June 4, 2008 There's no way anyone could exit that car park at a sensible speed. You'd be stuck at the junction as fair game for any passing lunatic
capriaddict Posted June 4, 2008 Report Posted June 4, 2008 Someone on the council is taking the p*** Aren't these ones bolted into place so you wouldn't have to dig em out just get your socket set down there in the middle of the night and un bolt em
ZetecVan 2.0 Posted June 4, 2008 Author Report Posted June 4, 2008 Someone on the council is taking the p***Aren't these ones bolted into place so you wouldn't have to dig em out just get your socket set down there in the middle of the night and un bolt em It's not the councill, it's our work.
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