Dunstan Road Traffic Calming
April 6th, 2009 by David RundleRecently, it’s been hard not to notice the poor state of Dunstan Road: the road humps have become so delapidated to be dangerous. We have raised this issue with both Councils. As you may have seen, just over a week ago, the humps were patched up by the City Council helping deal with the immediate problem. But this isn’t enough: we do need more large-scale work to be done. For that, we will need the co-operation of the County. As yet, they have not committed anything to deal with this problem but, be sure that we will pursue it!
If you want to make Dunstan Road safer, I can say with certainty it would be better to take the humps out all together. I have done a lot of research on this subject, you will find that the Ambulance Service and Fire Brigade are behind me on this one. Humps cost lives in an emergency, each hump costs them 10 seconds of lost response time. Every second counts in an emergency, as result of humps people die unnecessarily. House foundations are damaged by the vibrations caused by humps.