Local council wants to put a speed hump in front of our place!

[FG50T]

You don't realise how many people have loud exhausts on their V6 commodores until they're slowing down for a speed hump and have to take off again droning out 1st, 2nd and 3rd into the distance.

[deesun]

Originally Posted by FG50T

You don't realise how many people have loud exhausts on their V6 commodores until they're slowing down for a speed hump and have to take off again droning out 1st, 2nd and 3rd into the distance.

I think I would prefer a bus stop out front rather than a speed hump.

[commodorenutt]

Originally Posted by deesun

I think I would prefer a bus stop out front rather than a speed hump.

Wait until you get school kids milling around rumbling each other into your garden, and leaving all their rubbish strewn through your yard, and smashing empty glass drinks bottles onto any hard surface they can find. The speed hump suddenly looks far more appealing.

[Syndrome]

Oh FFS. They are putting the speed humps on our street as I write this. Not happy.

[LG17]

Originally Posted by Syndrome

Oh FFS. They are putting the speed humps on our street as I write this. Not happy.

From that I assume you had no luck getting it changed...

[Syndrome]

Originally Posted by LG17

From that I assume you had no luck getting it changed...

Correct.

[JC]

We have 2 sets of newly installed speed humps between us and the main road if we go one way, or 4 if we go a different way! Not happy Jan (although I can take them at 50 in the GT and territory, around 30 in the focus).

[MITCHAY]

Originally Posted by JC

We have 2 sets of newly installed speed humps between us and the main road if we go one way, or 4 if we go a different way! Not happy Jan (although I can take them at 50 in the GT and territory, around 30 in the focus).

Quite a few being installed and in the process of doing so also replaced one problem with another by giving the dickheads another opportunity to slow down and do burnouts

There have put speed humps on the Torrens St and Elouera St roundabout in Braddon on both sides of the road in every direction.

So no matter which way, you have to go over two of them in quick succession. It is not exactly a roundabout that could be taken with any decent speed before and certainly not big enough to put on any speed between them now.

One on the left sides of the two roads would have accomplished the same thing but cost less

[Peterwl]

Originally Posted by MITCHAY

Quite a few being installed and in the process of doing so also replaced one problem with another by giving the dickheads another opportunity to slow down and do burnouts

There have put speed humps on the Torrens St and Elouera St roundabout in Braddon on both sides of the road in every direction.

So no matter which way, you have to go over two of them in quick succession. It is not exactly a roundabout that could be taken with any decent speed before and certainly not big enough to put on any speed between them now.

One on the left sides of the two roads would have accomplished the same thing but cost less

I was not going to respond to this thread at all, but I just remembered a funny past remedy to this problem.

About 5 to 7 years ago I had reason to visit a suburb here in South West Sydney where these speed humps were installed without any blessing of the local street residents. Then the humps must have been made out of a rubber of plastic compound etc.

Well some trogg at night must have poured some highly flammable material on the newly installed speed hump. I recall seeing the black mess on the road after this had happened, not once but several times.

Some months later when I had reason to return to this area, there was no speed hump in place. Obviously the council got tired of replacing it.

Maybe they make them out of metal now.

[MITCHAY]

Originally Posted by Peterwl

I was not going to respond to this thread at all, but I just remembered a funny past remedy to this problem.

About 5 to 7 years ago I had reason to visit a suburb here in South West Sydney where these speed humps were installed without any blessing of the local street residents. Then the humps must have been made out of a rubber of plastic compound etc.

Well some trogg at night must have poured some highly flammable material on the newly installed speed hump. I recall seeing the black mess on the road after this had happened, not once but several times.

Some months later when I had reason to return to this area, there was no speed hump in place. Obviously the council got tired of replacing it.

Maybe they make them out of metal now.

Funnily enough almost as soon as these were installed near the local shops, someone had already tried to light them on fire

[NTF6]

Originally Posted by FormulaFG

Go and punch all your neighbors in the noses, it's one of their complaints that probably brought this on.

You'll still be getting a speed bump but you'll feel better.

They don't get installed on complaints alone, they need historical data, either from the police as to the number of speeding fines issued on that stretch of road in a particular time frame which is compared to other similar roads or the rubber strips across the road to determine excessive traffic volume or other things like daycare centres etc that are adjoining the road.

[snowcone]

Buy a second hand bobcat with a scarifier on it and knock the top of at night when no ones around.
Take the Council 6 months to come back and do it again, and so the circle begins

[Tickford.]

Originally Posted by SB076

1) Buy some hi vis gear
2) Get a clip board and roll up a large sheet of paper
3) Hire a white ute (any doesn't matter which)
4) Buy and orange flashing light

When work commences, get the ute put the orange light up on top, jump out with your clip board and rolled up sheet of paper and a stern look on your face and ask to speak to the site supervisor. When they show up keep a straight face and demand to know why he is working off the old location/drawings when everything has been relocated X number of meters down the road (or even choose a neighbors driveway) Make notes on your clipboard and make a few angry calls on your mobile - watch as they drive away and install a speed hump in your neighbors driveway.

LOL! A fan of Axle Foley and BHC SB076??

[2011G6E]

Hard one to argue against and not sound like "a hoon"...

"I don't want a speed hump in front of my house"...
"Why not?"
"I don't want one, that's all."
"So you like cars speeding down your street?"
"No of course not..."
"You like hoons racing down residential streets where children play?"
"Well no one does, but..."
"You plan on speeding along there yourself?"
"Of course not, however..."
"It gets built next week...thank you for being a responsible concerned citizen..."

[roKWiz]

I love speed humps, there is nothing worst when driving a front and rear leaf sprung truck.

[Mainlube]

Haha if you have hoons in your street, what's the only thing that will stop them? cameras.

Speed humps as correctly said, SUV's don't have to slow down, the big one is the dude with the nice car slows down, crawls over the hump, and drops a big patch (smoke poring from gards) as they leave.

How do I know? I have a speed humps right out side, it's nosier with the speed hump!!

I see they just put some sneaky cameras up around 4 of the power poles (small bubble encased ones) that will bring a little surprise to the lads, a ticket in the mail. They could get 5-6 licences per night if they work these cameras well.

They put 8 speed humps in the area (La Perouse) and they pull big skids away from all of them, roads getting black from the marks.

Speed humps are worse than not having them, not the answer, they are only a format to do a skid from.

Cheers

Steve

[BPXR6T]

Move house. Other than the postie 3x a week I get a car down my street maybe once every 2-3 months. Peace is bliss...

[FairmontGS]

Move. Now.

We have one out the front of our house. Can't complain, as it was already there when we bought the house.

But the noise - it amplifies everything - squeal of brakes as they slow down, ker-thump ker-thump as they go over, engine noise as they accelerate away . Then there's the tradies where everything gets thrown into the air and lands again in the metal tray (tradies see our speed hump as a challenge, not a deterrent ). Great, especially at 0600.

On the upside, never seen any squashed kiddies in the street

[HIPO]

I thought these were becoming a thing of the past re. air & noise pollution.

[Rallye Sport]

Our guys are taking the 'green' approach by lining our street with dirty big Tuart trees. Planted 1.5m from the curb, bare in mind the trunks will have a girth of 1m+. These should stop any wayward hoons dead in their tracks and as the roots start to lift the road we'll have speed humps too, lol.

[Beastie]

Just read this...

http://www.news.com.au/national/vict...993c31689549d9

[paulb351]

We just had this and mobilised all the neighbours to provide negative feedback and the council did not proceed with the proposal


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[Streets]

Who slows down for speed bumps anymore anyway? Everyone I see just goes over them at 50-60 and you can hear their suspension going off like a gunshot.

There's a local shopping centre near me where they have those big tall plastic speed bumps that get bolted into the concrete, and there are always sections of speed bump missing because people rip them out by going over them so fast.

People are too stupid nowadays. They don't care what it does to their car because they will throw it away and get a new one in 3 years time anyway. Meanwhile I crawl over them at 10kph...

[290v]

They have to in form all residents that are affected by the fitting of the speed humps first then you can petition other people in the street to back you up and support your cause I had them removed from our street because of this above what i have said. The person that had them out front of his house was glad to get rid of them as he was a shift worker and all the cars would come down slow to go over the humps then speed off or spinning their wheels affecting his sleep so don't give up persist lobby Council