Excuse the poor grammer but this is a copy of the email I just sent to the person who authorised the road humps in West Barnes lane.
A few of you may remember that I damaged my car on these humps.
This is the 2nd time and this is the details.
Edward Quartey – Traffic Engineer
Tel: 020 8545 2171
Email: edward.quartey@merton.gov.uk
Website: www.merton.gov.uk/westbarnes20mph
Dear Sir
I wish to bring to your attention the height of the road humps in West Barnes Lane Worcester Park!
This is the 2nd time I have written on this subject and am still awaiting a reply from the 1st.
Are you aware that not one road hump is anywhere near the recommended 100mm in height?
I have a Nissan 350 Z of standard height yet the very 1st hump I came to hit the bottom of the car!
I tried to turn round but was unable to due to a van behind me and oncoming traffic!
No matter what I did I just could not negotiate these road humps without the whole underside feeling the brunt.
The intake pipe of the supercharger was later discovered to be fractured and the cost plus labour to repair was £800.
This is now a year since I sent the 1st email, but what prompted me to write again was that nothing has been done to reduce the height!
Many cars are damaged and this is evident by the black marks and cracking to the top of the road humps.
What happens if a Ferrari or the like were to go down there?
There is no signage to say not to go down there or people with low vehicles do not enter?
The resident’s wanted the humps to slow the traffic down not rip the undercarriage of their own vehicles as one did!
I am led to believe that several of the local bus and coach operators have stopped their driver’s from going down West Barnes Lane due to damaging
Air brake pipes?
It they are getting damaged then what chance have we got.
Please could you give a time frame for rectification work to be done to lower the humps to the Government recommended height please?
I hold your department fully accountable as you had to pass the rectification work of as suitable!
By rectification I mean the repairs that were made back last year.
One day workmen came along and embedded Red London Bricks as a top layer.
These bricks alone are almost 50% of the recommended height which in its self was more than 10cm to begin with.
Sincerely
P. Andrews.