Speed Humps do Good
So Lytham Road has been fitted with speed humps I believe. I’ve not seen them myself yet, but my colleague Pete has and he says they’re good. He went on to say that they’re smooth to drive over and they slow you down efficiently without feeling like you’re driving on the surface of the moon. I suppose Lytham Road is one of them roads that do see a lot of speeders hurtling down at 50 plus mph, but there’s not a right lot pedestrians down there compared to say… Friargate. If there’s a road in Preston that needs something to stop these pathetic idiots in hot-hatch cars from driving at excessive speed, then it’s Friargate. The place is busy with shoppers by day and drinkers by night; it has a hill brow that you can’t see over until you’re on top of it, it’s got a pedestrian crossing and it has a taxi rank with cabs U-turning on and off all night. Yet, Friargate suffers from these idiots who race up and down it at speeds as high as 60mph almost every night. It’s not just the boy racers with their extra loud exhausts and booming speakers spewing out rubbish they call music. No, last night a van came hurtling towards the Adelphi Roundabout doing at least 60pmh. If a cab was pulling off the rank when the van was approaching the brow, there would’ve been an accident without a doubt. No one should begrudge the residents of Lytham road their new traffic calming measures, I myself want to see speed humps on my road. They do a job; they slow nutjob boy racers down and other irresponsible drivers who speed. But places like Friargate, that has a high number of pedestrians, needs to be calmed as soon as possible, whether that be by humps or cameras.
