In a move that will piss off the "won't someone think of the children?" brigade, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice) have decreed that speed bumps should be removed from roads in order to cut thousands of deaths from air pollution each year.
Seemingly measures which help motorists stay at a constant speed, rather than accelerating and decelerating, are preferable to humps; in other words never ever slow down!
It follows a study earlier this year by Imperial College which found that forcing drivers to slow down and speed up again produces significant of harmful emissions.
Other schemes proposed by Nice include separating cyclists and cars using foliage; moving living rooms to the rear of houses away from busy roads and banning ‘car idling’ outside schools and retirement homes.
How the fark does Nice intend to force people to move their living rooms?
Will Nanny send Living Room Inspectors around to check?
Sigh!
The cause of air pollution is cars, trucks, buses and planes. Nanny has no intention of removing those, as she knows there would be a riot. Hence her obsession with fags!
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Of course speed bumps should be removed. No need, what with all the 20mph zones. The worst speed bump on the planet is just round the corner from me: cost me two heat shields on this car and an exhaust on the last. Now my third heat shield is rattling. Give it a couple of months and it will be dead - just in time to fail too fail its mot. At 5mph that bump bangs the back end of my exhaust against the car body. At anything under 15 ditto. Over 15 mph, trash the front spoiler.
ReplyDelete30% of my fuel is wasted sitting at traffic lights & then pulling away from them. This is a pissy little "microcar" (as the yanks say).
20mph zones are also dangerous.
DeleteThe driver spends more time looking at his speedometer than he does looking at the road.
... and if an emergency vehicle (fire, ambulance etc) is rushing to rescue you ?????
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