Bristol - Hanham High street Speed humps
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I've just sent a letter off to transportservices@southglos.gov.uk regarding the fecking huge speed humps I have to use daily on the main road.
Mainly that my road legal kit car cannot go over these fecking large speed humps as it's too low.
Just wondering does anyone use this road very often and how do you feel about these speed humps? I put it off for a while since they put these humps in place last year mainly as I have not even tried until recently to see if the car will get over them without damaging the car. It won't make it and was fun as I had to do a U turn in the road as I could not go any further
Mainly that my road legal kit car cannot go over these fecking large speed humps as it's too low.
Just wondering does anyone use this road very often and how do you feel about these speed humps? I put it off for a while since they put these humps in place last year mainly as I have not even tried until recently to see if the car will get over them without damaging the car. It won't make it and was fun as I had to do a U turn in the road as I could not go any further
All the local council will do is point you in the direction of this http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/1025/pdfs/...
Basically "humps" can't be more than 100mm high or have any vertical face more than 6mm. Good luck
Basically "humps" can't be more than 100mm high or have any vertical face more than 6mm. Good luck
LordBretSinclair said:
All the local council will do is point you in the direction of this http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/1025/pdfs/...
Basically "humps" can't be more than 100mm high or have any vertical face more than 6mm. Good luck
cheers for that. I don't think I shall be that anal and check the height but still stopping road legal cars using the road is just fecking stupid Basically "humps" can't be more than 100mm high or have any vertical face more than 6mm. Good luck
LordGrover said:
Where are we, here: click?
Not somewhere I go very often and since I sold the TVR not so much an issue for me. I feel your pain though.
yup right road just a old pic. they are the full width of the road so not you normal speed humps you can managed 1 wheel over or go over the center so my engine does not ground outNot somewhere I go very often and since I sold the TVR not so much an issue for me. I feel your pain though.
RemaL said:
yup right road just a old pic. they are the full width of the road so not you normal speed humps you can managed 1 wheel over or go over the center so my engine does not ground out
Sorry to be pedantic guys but humps always go across the full width, those smaller ones which you can't quite straddle (but ambulances etc can) are called "cushions". Get my anorak!! 
LordBretSinclair said:
RemaL said:
yup right road just a old pic. they are the full width of the road so not you normal speed humps you can managed 1 wheel over or go over the center so my engine does not ground out
Sorry to be pedantic guys but humps always go across the full width, those smaller ones which you can't quite straddle (but ambulances etc can) are called "cushions". Get my anorak!! They're a bloody nightmare, mate. 
I haven't got an especially low car (although being a fat b
d means my suspension is, ahem, slightly lowered) but I deliberately avoid going that way nowadays because of them. I live in Oldland and often need to get around that area for work and leisure and now I avoid it like the plague. I hadn't realised that speeding cars were that much of a problem there.
I haven't got an especially low car (although being a fat b
d means my suspension is, ahem, slightly lowered) but I deliberately avoid going that way nowadays because of them. I live in Oldland and often need to get around that area for work and leisure and now I avoid it like the plague. I hadn't realised that speeding cars were that much of a problem there.Yep, live down the road. They are a nightmare, I believe the council have had complaints since they've been put down.
Resurfaceed the entire highstreet then ruin it with those mountains!
Was going to send the council a letter about, making people go the long way round (like I do), thus increasing traffic flows past the school, but haven't bothered yet.
I can get over them, but very very slowly.
Resurfaceed the entire highstreet then ruin it with those mountains!
Was going to send the council a letter about, making people go the long way round (like I do), thus increasing traffic flows past the school, but haven't bothered yet.
I can get over them, but very very slowly.
I love them, the front of the esprit scrapes so I crawl over then with a que of cars behind, then accelerate holding in 1st gear so everyone looks at the roar & thinks i'm speeding (err 20mph maybe?) then brake hard to crawl over them again, repeat & repeat down the high st. Totally legal, totally annoying for the locals
seriously though they are a pain...
seriously though they are a pain...
the reply I got today
RE: TRAFFIC CALMING – HANHAM AREA
I refer to your email of 29 November 2011.
The raised tables installed in the High Street were designed in accordance with the criteria set by the Department for Transport. National regulations allow the use of road humps up to 100mm in height. However, in response to concerns raised by the emergency services and bus companies all cushions, humps and raised tables installed in South Gloucestershire are 75mm high. Similarly the cushions installed in Memorial Road are 75mm in height and are pre-formed to ensure that they are within the correct tolerances.
We regularly get complaints that speed cushions are too low and do not have a significant effect on traffic speeds. I am afraid that as these traffic calming features fall within the national guidelines I cannot recommend any changes.
If you wish to raise the issue futher you could try contacting the Department for Transport as they set the regulations and may be able to answer your question with regard to a road legal vehicle such as yours.
I am sorry that I cannot offer a solution but hope that I have explained the situation.
Yours sincerely
Mark
Principal Engineer
Transportation Services
and my reply
Dear Mark
Thanks for the reply But:
You may be following guidelines given to you, but I shall try to use the road and if I get stuck which results in lots of traffic delays then so be it. I will just be trying to use my road legal car on roads which should be suitable for all road legal cars like mine.
I can get over without much of a big problem on the speed humps on Memorial Road as I can straddle them to miss my sump but not on the high street due to the size and width of them.
Any suggestions to the damage to my car if I try and use these speed calming humps? yourselves or Department for Transport? or the disruption if I get beached on the table tops?
Why the need for table tops and not speed humps which "I guess" would have been cheaper and not result in my car being unable to use this road any more?
yours sincerely
RE: TRAFFIC CALMING – HANHAM AREA
I refer to your email of 29 November 2011.
The raised tables installed in the High Street were designed in accordance with the criteria set by the Department for Transport. National regulations allow the use of road humps up to 100mm in height. However, in response to concerns raised by the emergency services and bus companies all cushions, humps and raised tables installed in South Gloucestershire are 75mm high. Similarly the cushions installed in Memorial Road are 75mm in height and are pre-formed to ensure that they are within the correct tolerances.
We regularly get complaints that speed cushions are too low and do not have a significant effect on traffic speeds. I am afraid that as these traffic calming features fall within the national guidelines I cannot recommend any changes.
If you wish to raise the issue futher you could try contacting the Department for Transport as they set the regulations and may be able to answer your question with regard to a road legal vehicle such as yours.
I am sorry that I cannot offer a solution but hope that I have explained the situation.
Yours sincerely
Mark
Principal Engineer
Transportation Services
and my reply
Dear Mark
Thanks for the reply But:
You may be following guidelines given to you, but I shall try to use the road and if I get stuck which results in lots of traffic delays then so be it. I will just be trying to use my road legal car on roads which should be suitable for all road legal cars like mine.
I can get over without much of a big problem on the speed humps on Memorial Road as I can straddle them to miss my sump but not on the high street due to the size and width of them.
Any suggestions to the damage to my car if I try and use these speed calming humps? yourselves or Department for Transport? or the disruption if I get beached on the table tops?
Why the need for table tops and not speed humps which "I guess" would have been cheaper and not result in my car being unable to use this road any more?
yours sincerely
I hate those speed humps too as I have to negotiate them every morning. I'm only driving a Mini Cooper S which has been lowered 30mm but it still scrapes the front bumper no matter how slow I go over them.
I'll fire off an email to complain too I think, maybe if enough of us do it they'll start to take notice.
I'll fire off an email to complain too I think, maybe if enough of us do it they'll start to take notice.
Seems South Glos have been on a speed hump hype as there have been a couple of massive ones put in at the Bradley Stoke Tesco compound - all around a corner that never had any accidents on it anyway, leaving the main straight bits of tarmac nice and flat to speed on. If I take the Mini to Tesco I can get lucky and have nothing coming the other way, and just zip down the middle of the humps (much to the amusement of nearby pedestrians). Otherwise I have to slow to half a mile an hour to stop myself bumping my head on the roof of the Mini as it sails skywards. Disruptive, noisy (as I accelerate again), but fun.
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