Wildern Lane Speed Humps

I wonder. Do we really need the speed humps in Wildern Lane. Some of them are really fierce, too fierce, suspension and spoiler smashing. Leave the 20 mph speed limit if you must, because of the schools, but remove the humps. There are other ways of enforcing the speed restrictions, which will also apply to buses, dustcarts, vans and the big 4x4's that many parents use to take their kids to school. The humps currently only seem to affect a proportion of the vehicles passing up and down that road and if you stand on the pavement and watch for a while, you'll see that those vehicles that aren't particualrly affected by the humps aren't completely innocent from infringing the speed limit either...

Indeed! The simple fact is that large vehicles such as 4x4's and larger vans seem unafected by the speed humps. I have heard and know of one particular case were over £400 pounds worth of repairs had to be carried out due to broken suspension components that needed to be replaced. Perhaps a road calming scheme would be more appropriet?

Totally agree caxm25. I don't see the point in having humps all the way from start to finish of Wildern Lane, also, most drivers seem to get frustrated by them half way along and speed up inbetween them anyway!

Another thing to consider is the emergency services, ambulance drivers in particular hate the humps, when they have to transport sick or injured people to A&E time and a stable vehicle can be the difference between life and death.

Yes cazm25, i'm not sure what though, we need a brain storming session on what would be better for everyone, i will do some research.

The problem with making it more than 20 is that the traffic will then increase to 40. Its hard enough at times to get out the drive way when the traffic is storming down the road at 30/35.

This doesn't account for the disrespectful drivers who like to race down the road at speeds of at least 60 on an evening, you can hear the cars storming up the road long before they get to our house....supprised the police cant hear them from St Johns road.

I'd also like to mention the little terrors who ride their little motorbikes everyday up the road like there a law unto their own!! Must say im suprised none of them have crashed into anyone...or nothing (a "moving pavement"), their riding is horrendous!

I asked the police about the best way to enforce speed limits in Wildern Lane when I was a Governor at one of the schools there. We discussed speed cameras, variable speed limits, calming measures but at the end of the day speed bumps were the solution. I understand the emergency service angle, both as a citizen and as an Emergency Nurse myself, however wildern lane would only be used for those emergecies ON Wildern Lane itself. AT the end of the day its all about risk management, i.e. impact vs probability. So how much time are the speed bumps really going to delay emergency services, given that we have already agreed that they don't really slow down large vehicles anyway.....not much I would suggest. Of course if you take the worst case scenario of someone dying because of the delay that would have a huge IMPACT, but the PROBABILITY of that occurring must be in the realms of hundreds of thousands to one. Also, from a medical point of view, if a delay in say 1 minute caused someones death then sorry to say their chances of survival were probably virtually zero anyway. Compare that with the risk of removing the bumps and thus allowing traffic to speed along Wildern lane. Again, if a child is killed the IMPACT would be huge, but in this case I would guesstimate that the PROBABILITY of it occurring would be in the thousand to one region. So from a risk management point of view it would be better to keep the bumps.