More evidence has emerged of how £47,000 worth of traffic calming measures are having no affect on curbing reckless drivers. A shocking clip shows a BMW tearing down a city-centre street and ignoring a no entry sign.
As reported in the Manchester Evening News, Manchester City Council spent the money after five years of campaigning by locals. They had wanted bollards, or sleeping policemen humps to stop Great Marlborough Street being used as a rat-run, completely, or slow down traffic.
But instead the council spent £25,000 on four "street thumps", as described by a council traffic and road safety manager - and are a kind of low level - literally - speed bump. But one resident described the 25mm "speed cushion" as "a yellow line on some tarmac shavings", and say residents wanted bollards to prevent traffic using the road completely or proper sleeping policemen humps to slow it down
