• IT is curious how some of the speed humps in Westminster are not fit for purpose and appear to be more of an advisory nature than to be devices that actually slow down speeding traffic.

It’s as if they are not meant to be taken too seriously.

Thus we can witness drivers and riders belting through even highly populated residential areas with schools and old people’s homes.

The humps can be as little as five centimetres high and would not slow down even a wheelbarrow.

We are told that these appliances to the public highways are “designed to be less aggressive on short wheel-based vehicles”.

All they do is to create a dull thump, if that. Surely we should be asking for “less aggressive” motor users?

ANTONY PORTER, W9