The so-called active speed bumps have received so much criticism in Denmark that the Road Directorate has removed them in at least one case. In Sweden, the speed bump is a 'success'.
The Road Directorate has received so much criticism for the so-called 'active speed bumps' – Actibump – that in Faaborg on Sydfyn the bump has been removed again.
Something that Boosted could tell cost the Road Directorate one million kroner. In other words, just getting one bump. But in Sweden, the Trafikverket claims that the bump catches over 300,000 drivers in two years.
The bump, which is in principle a six-centimetre drop limb which is only released when a motorist is speeding, has been put down in several places in Sweden. And the authorities claim that it only bothers people who sing too loudly.
– Unlike other speed bumps such as bumps and potholes, these only stop speeders.
– We have still noticed a big difference, and the measurements we have taken show that it is only between one and five percent who bark too loudly, says Eva Lundberg from Trafikverket to Carup .
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While the Swedes praise the new speed bumps, at home they have been a minor disaster. Especially because for the price they seem far too bad.
– Actibump costs approximately ten times as much as a regular asphalt bump. And to this comes a rather high maintenance price. In fact, the price for maintaining a single 'Actibump' is the same as it costs to make an asphalt bump, traffic researcher at DTU Jeppe Rich has told DR.
Nor does colleague Harry Lahrmann, who is a researcher at Aalborg University, see the point of the new bumps. In fact, Lahrmann calls the bumps 'a bad idea'.
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