Tuesday 12th March 2002

Corrugated Roads

Local officials in Hampshire are experimenting with a corrugated road surface in place of speed humps. Humps are recognised as having many disadvantages including drivers speeding up between them and paying less attention to hazards when negotiating the humps. Scientists reckon that the corrugated road will slow down all sizes of vehicle equally and reduce the noise and pollution from cars accelerating between humps. Sounds to us like cobbled streets are on their way back. It won't be long before you're required to have a man with a red flag walking in front of your vehicle again...

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[jimbro1000]

Some one please tell me this is a joke? I fail to see how this can possibly reduce noise.

The local idiots round where I live don't bother slowing down for speedbumps as it is (evidenced by the fact that the bumps are a good inch lower now than when they started). Giving them a less grippy surface to play on is NOT going to make things quieter or safer.

The man with a red flag isn't waving it to warn other road users - he's trying to enrage the bull driving the car behind him!

[Mon Ami Mate]

This has to be one of the most stupid suggestions I've come across yet. Bad enough in the car, but this would be deadly on the bike.

[s2ooz]

also... wont there roads also bugger up any braking ability, so if its "outside a school" to slow you down, it also means you cant stop!

[ZZR600]

Time to buy a citroen

[steve harrison]

We've already got them round here - only they call it "potholes"

They've spent so much money on silly bumps, chicanes and funny coloured tarmac that rubs off within a week that there's nothing left to spend on filling in the gigantic craters that keep appearing

[octane junkie]

Nottinghamshire County Council have been installing these for more than 100 years. They call them roads.

[JMGS4]

Corrugations were tried here (SW Germany) when locals didn't like the noise of "so much traffic". The council put a narrowing of the road down to 4m width and 3m long which was then corrugated. The locals then (within 2 weeks of installation) took the coucil to court to remove the corrugations due to the VAST increase in noise of vehicles rumbling over the corrugations. Now there is just the narrowing which slows down the traffic somewhat but vastly increases the exhaust gasses due to the braking/accelerating phases! Icrease of over 350%!!! F*cking Eejits ...........

[Fatboy]

Steve You don't live in Oxon do you? Sounds disturbingly familiar

[steve harrison]

quote:
Steve You don't live in Oxon do you? Sounds disturbingly familiar

Nah, Surrey. Makes no odds mate, they're all the same

[PeteFf]

The corrugated roads should save the ladies a fortune in batteries. They will be really concentrating on the road.

[steve harrison]

quote:
The corrugated roads should save the ladies a fortune in batteries. They will be really concentrating on the road.

Ah! the old "two nuns on a motorbike" joke. For the unenlightened:

Two nuns on a motorbike riding down a cobbled street.

1st nun - I don't think I've ever come this way before
2nd nun - me neither, we must try it more often.