Speed Hump Height

[minitnkr]

Maybe the local law could post a speed limit. Most I've seen here in the colonies are 10mph. There is also a dust issue if unimproved that may apply.

[Ian M]

How do the other users of the track feel about the problem? Maybe they are also interested in stopping the offender?
If you all got together and talked to the council as a group rather that an individual, they (the council) might jut pay a bit more attention to the problem.
I hope you find a solution to the problem.
I guess a couple of claymores are out of the question.....

[Airborne01]

Alan.
The local authority Highways Officer can advise, particularly if the carriageway in question is maintainable at public expense; the applicable rules are contained in a tome entitled (if I recall correctly) The Traffic Signs and General Directions Regulations. It's been over twenty years since I was a Highways Officer but the placement of any item on the Highway so as to obstruct or impede is still contrary to the Highways Act (QV), and the onus for repararations for any damage caused by such placement potentially rests with the individual who placed it. I think you stand a very real risk of this escalating disproportionately if you're not careful. You being in Scotland may throw up further complications!

[Airborne01]

How do the other users of the track feel about the problem? Maybe they are also interested in stopping the offender?
If you all got together and talked to the council as a group rather that an individual, they (the council) might jut pay a bit more attention to the problem.
I hope you find a solution to the problem.
I guess a couple of claymores are out of the question.....

Ian.
Dinna mention Claymores in a Scottish context, Alan might just fish out his old plaid!

[rtfoe]

Ian.
Dinna mention Claymores in a Scottish context, Alan might just fish out his old plaid!

Scottish?...try Asiatic and dig a trench and fill with punji sticks. :smiling6: Hope you get your speed bumps up.

Cheers,
Richard

[Airborne01]

(In an Alan-type accent) Och mon, stop bumping yur gums - sassenach ...

[AlanG]

Steve. I'm actually English and from Lincolnshire

But my mother was a true born and bred teuchter

[Airborne01]

Guilty of profiling -? Mea culpa ! - is Lincolnshire in England ? ( sorry, couldn't resist a final jibe!). Apologies to all Scots wha hae! One of my best oppo's came from Prestonpans and in his cups would mutter things like (phonetically) "English bastats!" never forgave the disbandment of his Regiment. My apologies Alan, hope there's no tinge of offence.

[AlanG]

Alan, hope there's no tinge of offence.

Forces banter my old cannon fodder chum.

In the Navy the officers and grunts go into battle together in a tin boat
In the Army the officers send the grunts to charge machine guns
In the Royal Air force the grunts send the officers into battle whilst retiring to the safety of the hotel bar

[PaulTRose]

I guess a couple of claymores are out of the question.....

trick is to hide them in plain sight


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[Graeme C.]

You could always do what a woman in Yorkshire did, stand at the side of the road in a yellow high-vis jacket while pointing a hairdryer at the offenders!

[Ian M]

A trend over here, which started off small and was quite effective was to leave a small child's bike on the path by the road. It does make you slow down a bit. However now it has gotten to the point that in small hamlets around the back roads are littered with them, kind of takes the threat away a bit.

[Guest]

Ah just make them 2 feet (600mmm) high Alan that should stop the perpertrator. :tongue-out3:

Laurie