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There has been a lot of discussion in the media about the merits of cameras against humps in London.

Most drivers in their day-to-day driving experience both cameras and humps.

But, assuming a situation where there was a moratorium on further expansion of either, which would you prefer to see completely removed?

I have deliberately not included a "both" option, as that would obviously have swept the board: I am trying to find out which annoys you most day-to-day.

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Got to be humps, especially as my car is fairly low and I have a choice of driving over two humps or about twenty to get to the nearest main road. Besides, there are more speed bumps, cushions, tables, chicanes, and other features of the Escher school of road engineering than cameras. The worst of these from my point of view is those bloody great black plastic toblerone things you see in some car parks. If I roll right over them, even at a 1st gear crawl, the front mudguards get grounded as the car bounces down slightly on the suspension. Avoiding this means coming off the throttle at the top, foot quickly on the clutch, hold for a mo on the handbrake before rolling down gently on the brakes. All to get over a six inch wide lump of plastic.

PS What's the sig mean? My French is pitiful.

Easy - humps don't threaten my driving licence.

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Paul Smith
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I don't see why it should be one or t'other but humps come a close second.

To be honest I have yet to come across a hump that actually affects my driving. Mostly they are in places I would slow down anyway. And they have yet to design the hump that hydropneumatic suspension can't tackle with ease.

My answer's the same, for the same reason. However, I do wonder how much extra money the average motorist spends per year as a result of damage/wear-n-tear done to their car by speedbumps.

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-mike[F]
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I have just voted for cameras......the biggest single distraction these days against getting safely from A to B. Having said that.........the humps are a confounded nuisance and I never use my "flagship" car, which is rather low to the ground for fear of expensive and annoying damage both to the front end and the exhaust system.

Regards

JWH

Obviously this is a "false opposition" because we hate both. But the point I'm making is that, in their day-to-day experience, humps cause much more frustration and annoyance for many drivers than cameras, particularly those living in large urban areas.

There are no cameras on my 8-mile daily commute, nor on my weekly 28-mile trip to visit family. But on the latter there certainly are some of the most stupid, pointless road humps in the world, on a narrow suburban road where the large number of parked cars mean that anything more than a very cautious 15 mph is impossible, humps or not.

Regards,

Peter

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Gotta be the cameras... it's that licence thing again. Keeping an eye out for PC gatso and his mobile buddies has become too big a part of my daily life, they've got to go.

Kaz

I've voted for humps to be removed.

Cameras are not unreasonable if the speed limits they enforce are reasonable, but humps are a nuisance and often you can't even drive on such roads at the posted limit.

There does need to be some speed enforcement because they are lunatics who drive at excessive speed.

Hi all,

I voted for humps 'cause they are just plain infuriating and are only of imaginery benefit, a false hope if you will, that drivers will no longer speed or knock down people.

Cameras don't really get to me..yet, as they didn't have any in my area or outwith until recently, startin' to get on the nerves now. though.

Andrew

As Paul says - no points in humps - however a cautionery tale on humps - in icy weather brick humps tend to be slippier and if on slope can cause car to slide sideways on to pavement - on reason why in this county we find the humps with a wooden bollard/s on the pavement.