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Adrian Vickers wrote:

 
> 
> One street in the suburbs of Chester (Upton IIRC) has "temporary" chicanes
> built in to it; you have to stop at alternative chicanes if traffic is coming
> the other way (which seems fair enough), and that actually seems to work. It
> is very irritating to drive through, but it does keep your speed down.
> 

I think they've tried something similar here in Valley Road Solihull,
combined with shallow 'humps'. It runs parallel to the A45 by the Arden
Oak. Needless to say, some young 'boy-racers' see it as an opportunity
to pretend they are at Silverstone and race through the chicanes, flying
over the humps and nearly decapitiating poor unsuspecting pedestrians
that thought it was suddenly safe to now cross their road in safety!

I also recall that Castle lane (Solihull) has a similar chicane-type
system, which does seem to work.

FWIW, I got 'Gatsoed' on the road that leads from J10 of the M6 into
Wolverhampton only last week. I'm waiting for the summons...I was doing
approximately 50mph. I went back to check the *real* limit and it said
30mph. Oh sh*t. :o(

Cheers

Keith