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Letter: Horrible humps

Published 12 February 2000

From James Richards

So engineers have invented a friendly sleeping policeman for the slower motorist
(8 January, p 7).
What I would like to see is a cycle-friendly hump.
The designers of these fiendish things just do not realise that the abrupt
changes of slope at the start and end of humps give a painful jolt to cyclists
because cycles, while travelling much slower than cars, do not have
suspension.

Another common type of traffic calming features roughly textured strips
extending from the gutter to the centre of the road.

To cars these are nothing more than a minor irritant (in fact, the noise they
create inside a car is their major nuisance value), but to a cyclist they are
sheer hell.

Cambridge

Issue no. 2225 published 12 February 2000

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