The prime directive

[ComedyPilot]

I had a prat in a 4x4 pulling a caravan overtake me this morning. I was doing 30, in a 30 and he crept by, but couldn't get by quick enough for the oncoming traffic, so pulled back in pushing me to the kerb. I punched the side of the caravan and screamed at him. Needless to say he carried on regardless, and by the time I got my composure back to get his reg, another car overtook, pulled in behind the caravan and blocked my view. The car that overtook second gave me PLENTY of room, having seen me hit the caravan and scream blue murder at the driver.

 

[benborp]

There is a stretch of road in Dulwich with sleeping policemen that I can happily maintain more than 20mph uphill on. Very few cars can manage the humps at anything much more than a crawl and I'll frequently catch up with cars in front sedately making their way. The fun comes when I have a car follow me away from the lights preceding this stretch of road. The revving, heavy braking, crunching of gears, thumping of suspensions and graunching of body kits as they attempt to maintain speed between the bumps in order to overtake while I twiddle along almost makes me feel sorry for them. With no effort I've usually gained a hundred yards before the next junction.

 

[mr_cellophane]

There are some other gems there

Speed bumps on Park Avenue have no effect as you can drive over them at full speed (40 mph)

Obviously tried it

I think 20 mph is too slow and no one will keep to it. You might as well walk.

Good Idea, bet he has never tried that option though.

The scheme will be much more acceptable with lower humps Current humps damage vehicles

So that he can still drive fast.

They have caused endless rows between myself and my partner when he drives me and forgets to slow down over road humps

Sort him out, not the humps.

 

[bigtrike]

I love the prime directive.
Doing 48kph in a 30 today ie 30 ( it is everso slightly down hill) which has a LED speed readout by the side of the road and yup mr Audi has to do 36 - 38 to pass. I should also add that it is doube white lines there and there is oftern a speed camera van just round the bend, sadly not today. The sad fact is I have twice been overtaken whilst the "safty camera partnership van" was in use but am sure that no action was taken. Same also applies when crusing allong double white lines, I cannot recall a cop who did not overtake, but can remember the number of motorists who did not ( 3 so far this year!) and waited the 200yds.

 

[thomas]

The scheme will be much more acceptable with lower humps Current humps damage vehicles

So that he can still drive fast.

Speed bumps damage cars even when you drive over the correctly. A lot of areas with speed bumps in turn get less police patrols because they don't like driving over them all day.

 

[Lazy-Commuter]

There is a stretch of road in Dulwich with sleeping policemen that I can happily maintain more than 20mph uphill on. Very few cars can manage the humps at anything much more than a crawl and I'll frequently catch up with cars in front sedately making their way. The fun comes when I have a car follow me away from the lights preceding this stretch of road. The revving, heavy braking, crunching of gears, thumping of suspensions and graunching of body kits as they attempt to maintain speed between the bumps in order to overtake while I twiddle along almost makes me feel sorry for them. With no effort I've usually gained a hundred yards before the next junction.

I have a stretch just like that on my commute. Some people will go over the humps at well over 30mph just to get past me .. I love the sound the bottom of the car makes as it dings off the hump.

Still, they're better than the ones that attempt to scoot past just before a hump, spot the hump, brake and swing in to the kerb whilst still alongside me. Although a good primary and readiness to act generally deals with that.

But the best bit is that this is a road through a biggish housing estate which has a traffic light controlled junction with a couple of major A roads at the end. The lights for traffic leaving the estate are generally not green for very long, and there's a big wait between greens, so I invariably catch them up again.

One day I hope to be able to return a bit of someone's car that's dropped off on one of the humps to them .. "scuse me mate, you dropped this".