Does anyone here have any sort of traffic calming on their road? What are your views on it? Did it have the desired effect?
I live on a residential road that has a speeding problem with about 1% of drivers. About a mile up the road from me, the residential road becomes a 60mph country lane. It's a fairly typical residential road, cars parked on the street, people walking their dogs, delivery drivers dropping off shopping etc. The only discerning features are that it's a decent width and it joins up to a B-road.
Almost every car and bike obeys the 30mph limit, but there is a small, dangerous minority of berks who do 60+ past my front door! My neighbours are getting really peeved about it too. So I'm thinking of doing something about it and asking the council to solve the problem.
If I petition the council to do something about it, I'd imagine they'd either: 1) install speed bumps (which are really noisy to live near due to "rev rev ker-chunk" sounds)
2) install road narrowing (which would cause absolute havoc during rush hour)
3) install a Gatso (which is only useful for the 50 yards it serves and I don't fancy having a radar pointed at my house 24/7)
Any systems out there that don't have the side effects of the above three?
I live on a residential road that has a speeding problem with about 1% of drivers. About a mile up the road from me, the residential road becomes a 60mph country lane. It's a fairly typical residential road, cars parked on the street, people walking their dogs, delivery drivers dropping off shopping etc. The only discerning features are that it's a decent width and it joins up to a B-road.
Almost every car and bike obeys the 30mph limit, but there is a small, dangerous minority of berks who do 60+ past my front door! My neighbours are getting really peeved about it too. So I'm thinking of doing something about it and asking the council to solve the problem.
If I petition the council to do something about it, I'd imagine they'd either: 1) install speed bumps (which are really noisy to live near due to "rev rev ker-chunk" sounds)
2) install road narrowing (which would cause absolute havoc during rush hour)
3) install a Gatso (which is only useful for the 50 yards it serves and I don't fancy having a radar pointed at my house 24/7)
Any systems out there that don't have the side effects of the above three?