Speed humps make no sense

Sir, – I live in Largoward where Fife Council is turning our main road from Fife’s “premier racetrack” into some sort of obstacle course.

To slow traffic they have installed a series of mini-humps designed, I assume, to slow traffic as it passes through the village.

It is true some cars are reducing speed, often to around 10 to 15mph, whilst a great many larger cars, vans, trucks, lorries and buses are not slowing at all, as they can easily straddle the humps as if they are not there.

I watched with great amusement one lowslung, expensive sports car driving in the middle of the road so as to climb two humps simultaneously to avoid causing damage to the underside of his vehicle by driving over a single hump on his side of the road.

On entering the village there are new signs jutting into the road warning drivers that oncoming traffic has the right of way.

I hope Fife Council has plenty of replacement signs because I fully expect these signs will be regularly hit by passing vehicles.

When the humps were covered by the recent snow they became, not a speed reduction initiative, but a possible cause of accidents with drivers not seeing them due to the snow and causing their cars to be deflected off-course.

I fully accept speed reduction through the village is necessary but the council’s answer, to me, is plain barmy.

A much better, easier and cheaper method would have been to reduce the speed limit to 20mph simply by changing the speed limit signs in the same way that exists in Upper Largo.

It works very well there and would work equally well through Largoward.

Perhaps if the speed limit had been reduced to 20mph in this way, the council could then have afforded to include Cupar Road where traffic still regularly enters the village at speeds well in excess of the 30mph limit.

Harry Key. 20 Mid Street, Largoward.

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