FAO High Wycombe peeps: does this make me sad?
12 January 2007, 03:41 PM
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FAO High Wycombe peeps: does this make me sad?
/geek mode on
For anyone who lives in High Wycombe & travels along "Daws Hill Lane" will know how much of a killer the speed bumps are down there. . .
Well, after a bit of googling - it turns out there are some regulations to stipulate the maximum hight & gradient of a speed bump.
Just by looking at the speed bumps, you can see they do not comply with Traffic Advisory Leaflet 7/96.
So I reported them as being over size!
They have engineers going out next week to fix the pot holes & they will spot-check the bumps while they are there. With a view to resize them (if necessary) next quarter!
I guess only time will tell.
In the mean time I will go over them V E R Y S L O W L E Y to avoid excessive damage / ware to my car
Highways (Road Humps) Regulations 1996
http://www.pacts.org.uk/policy/briefings/roadhumps.pdf
/geek mode off
For anyone who lives in High Wycombe & travels along "Daws Hill Lane" will know how much of a killer the speed bumps are down there. . .
Well, after a bit of googling - it turns out there are some regulations to stipulate the maximum hight & gradient of a speed bump.
Just by looking at the speed bumps, you can see they do not comply with Traffic Advisory Leaflet 7/96.
So I reported them as being over size!
They have engineers going out next week to fix the pot holes & they will spot-check the bumps while they are there. With a view to resize them (if necessary) next quarter!
I guess only time will tell.
In the mean time I will go over them V E R Y S L O W L E Y to avoid excessive damage / ware to my car
Highways (Road Humps) Regulations 1996
http://www.pacts.org.uk/policy/briefings/roadhumps.pdf
/geek mode off
12 January 2007, 03:49 PM
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I live just off of that road so I know it only too well. As you travel along from RAF Dawes hill towards the A404 the speed bumps either side of the entrance to the school are terrible. Everyone crawls along that road now at 15 mph even if they're in big 4x4s 
The road is falling apart along that stretch
Is that you I see driving along there on the P plate blue sti wagon?
The road is falling apart along that stretch
Is that you I see driving along there on the P plate blue sti wagon?
12 January 2007, 03:49 PM
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Yes (he is sad - not the sti wagon bit 
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Why don't you just hire a JCB and sort them out like a real man
)Why don't you just hire a JCB and sort them out like a real man
Last edited by David Lock; 12 January 2007 at 03:51 PM. Reason: clarification
It's a joke living along that road because everyone is so scared of the bumps that they do 15-20mph between the bumps and 5 mph over them.
12 January 2007, 03:58 PM
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I know those bumps all too well 
. In fact went over them just last night and they have changed over the last few years, not any better mind !!
They used to be real nasties, with bricks instead of tarmac, then they made them into more like cushions, but kept them the same height and guess what, that hasnt made them any better and the road surface is degrading as fast.
But Wycombe council is guilty of this in a number of places.
If you go to Micklefield road the bumps along there are just as bad and yet they end before the shops and more importantly the school starts
They have tried loads of different calming techniques and there have been loads of campaigns to get them lowered/changed. Just go into the local butcher in that parade of shops and ask him..you will be there for hours as he rants on about them
the council just pays lip service to any complaints, so dont get your hopes up mate
. In fact went over them just last night and they have changed over the last few years, not any better mind !!They used to be real nasties, with bricks instead of tarmac, then they made them into more like cushions, but kept them the same height and guess what, that hasnt made them any better and the road surface is degrading as fast.
But Wycombe council is guilty of this in a number of places.
If you go to Micklefield road the bumps along there are just as bad and yet they end before the shops and more importantly the school starts
They have tried loads of different calming techniques and there have been loads of campaigns to get them lowered/changed. Just go into the local butcher in that parade of shops and ask him..you will be there for hours as he rants on about them
the council just pays lip service to any complaints, so dont get your hopes up mate
12 January 2007, 04:03 PM
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Yeah speed bumps everywhere around Wycombe
I just drive a regular 2.0 A4 (not a sport model or anything), and the front of that scrapes the ground over some of the bigger speed bumps unless I drop to about 2 mph
Dont know how people with anything slightly sporty manage.
I just drive a regular 2.0 A4 (not a sport model or anything), and the front of that scrapes the ground over some of the bigger speed bumps unless I drop to about 2 mph
Dont know how people with anything slightly sporty manage.
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12 January 2007, 04:03 PM
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I know those bumps all too well . In fact went over them just last night and they have changed over the last few years, not any better mind !!
They used to be real nasties, with bricks instead of tarmac, then they made them into more like cushions, but kept them the same height and guess what, that hasnt made them any better and the road surface is degrading as fast.
But Wycombe council is guilty of this in a number of places.
If you go to Micklefield road the bumps along there are just as bad and yet they end before the shops and more importantly the school starts
They have tried loads of different calming techniques and there have been loads of campaigns to get them lowered/changed. Just go into the local butcher in that parade of shops and ask him..you will be there for hours as he rants on about them
the council just pays lip service to any complaints, so dont get your hopes up mate
. In fact went over them just last night and they have changed over the last few years, not any better mind !!They used to be real nasties, with bricks instead of tarmac, then they made them into more like cushions, but kept them the same height and guess what, that hasnt made them any better and the road surface is degrading as fast.
But Wycombe council is guilty of this in a number of places.
If you go to Micklefield road the bumps along there are just as bad and yet they end before the shops and more importantly the school starts
They have tried loads of different calming techniques and there have been loads of campaigns to get them lowered/changed. Just go into the local butcher in that parade of shops and ask him..you will be there for hours as he rants on about them
the council just pays lip service to any complaints, so dont get your hopes up mate
If you see someone in a crappy blue 54 plate Vectra waving you know who it is
12 January 2007, 04:08 PM
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Hi Paul
You won't regret it - I changed my '05 JDM STI for a late E46 330D last year and haven't looked back. It's much more comfortable, better built, has agile RWD handling with great feedback, as much torque as the STI (from only 1500 rpm!) and returns about 35mpg. It's hard to argue with that lot IMHO.
Speaking of mpg, I wonder whether anyone with a good on-board computer has driven that road and measured their fuel consumption? It should be good ammo against the pro-speed-hump lobby; it's easy to achieve single figure mpg with the sort of repeated braking and acceleration that speed humps encourage. That's trackday consumption, and if there's one argument the Govt seems to listen to these days it's a 'green' one.
Speaking of mpg, I wonder whether anyone with a good on-board computer has driven that road and measured their fuel consumption? It should be good ammo against the pro-speed-hump lobby; it's easy to achieve single figure mpg with the sort of repeated braking and acceleration that speed humps encourage. That's trackday consumption, and if there's one argument the Govt seems to listen to these days it's a 'green' one.
12 January 2007, 05:52 PM
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So I reported them as being over size!
Let's hope it makes a difference! Lose the bumps, stick the camera back and a couple of pinches, that should sort it out!
12 January 2007, 06:08 PM
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Speaking of mpg, I wonder whether anyone with a good on-board computer has driven that road and measured their fuel consumption? It should be good ammo against the pro-speed-hump lobby; it's easy to achieve single figure mpg with the sort of repeated braking and acceleration that speed humps encourage. That's trackday consumption, and if there's one argument the Govt seems to listen to these days it's a 'green' one.
Speaking of mpg, I wonder whether anyone with a good on-board computer has driven that road and measured their fuel consumption? It should be good ammo against the pro-speed-hump lobby; it's easy to achieve single figure mpg with the sort of repeated braking and acceleration that speed humps encourage. That's trackday consumption, and if there's one argument the Govt seems to listen to these days it's a 'green' one.
That's a good point about the mpg and something that I'd forgotten to investigate (having a crap car without a computer doesn't help) so that'd be interesting. I might have to try it in Cat's golf because hers has a computer that shows fuel consumption.
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