http://www.wiltshiretimes.co.uk/news/4840861.We_ve_got_the_hump_in_Trowbridge/The new manager of The Shires shopping centre in Trowbridge has said he will review controversial speed bumps in its car park, after a Facebook campaign group was launched to get them removed.
The Facebook group, titled Move the speed humps from The Shires shopping centre in Trowbridge, has already attracted 860 members and people have left comments suggesting the shopping centre should be made to pay for damage to their cars.
New manager John Grinnell said this week: “I am aware of the Facebook campaign.
“We have been looking at them and have been reviewing them.
“To be quite honest there are some speed bumps that have been there some time and are not a problem.
“But I am not averse to listening to the public and if we feel there is a problem we will be doing something about it. The only thing we want to do is to make sure that when people walk around the car park they don’t get hurt.”
The speed humps have been causing controversy since four new humps were installed in the autumn with many motorists saying they were in the wrong place, were too high and were not adequately signposted.
At the time the former manager of The Shires, Steve Murray, said they were installed for safety reasons, were within guidelines and were clearly signposted, although extra signs were then put up to alert motorists to their presence.
Protester Stanley Jones, of Horse Road, Hilperton, said the Facebook group is attracting new supporters every week.
“Many of these have sustained serious damage to their vehicles and could well be submitting claims. Surely they cannot all be wrong,” he said.
“As a New Year’s gesture of goodwill would it not be sensible for the management to remove these humps forthwith.
They might also like to be reminded that in the next few months a new supermarket will be opening in Trowbridge and drivers will not then have to negotiate a dangerous obstacle course.
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some of these traffic calming hummps can be very harsh and hard on your suspension of your vehicle... there are a few at dilton but one of them is more harsh than the others imo
iknow they are there for a reason to slow the racers down...but there is slowing people down and there is damaging cars.... i thought that ones right across the road would have been better for the cars so both the front or both the back wheels are up or down together..instead of being one up and one sideways down(as they arent wide enough to get both wheel at the front on together....... if you understand what i mean
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