A real nightmare for millions of motorists, these speed bumps will soon disappear from our roads

A large number of speed bumps will be destroyed in France to the greatest happiness of many motorists.

If you, too, get annoyed every time you have to suddenly press the brake pedal when approaching a speed bump, here is some news that should delight you: a very large number of speed bumps will soon be removed from French roads. On April 30, the Marseille Administrative Court of Appeal decided to enforce the rules concerning speed bumps set by a decree dated May 27, 1994. And it must be noted that for years, many municipalities have taken liberties with the regulation.

The primary purpose of a speed bump is to reduce the risk of accidents by preventing vehicles from driving too fast in built-up areas. For about twenty years, they have been springing up like mushrooms in cities under the pretext of improving road safety. Except that for some time now, they have been producing the opposite effect. Too numerous, too high, and installed in the wrong places, they have increased the number of accidents. Hence: the decision to remove all those that, positioned on the entire road network of France, do not meet the standards.

And there are several thousand speed bumps that should soon disappear. For one thing, if you sometimes see them on roads limited to 50 km/h, you should know that this will soon no longer be the case. Speed ​​bumps can only be installed on roads limited to 30 km/h or less. This means all those that have been built on roads where the authorized speed is higher than 30 km/h will have to be destroyed by the municipalities.

Suffice to say that except in the streets of city centers or those near schools or daycare centers, many donkey backs will be wiped off the map. The same goes for those that were born in a distance of less than 40 meters from a bend, 25 meters from a bridge or on a road where a public transport line or more than 3,000 vehicles per day run.

The excessive height of certain speed bumps, responsible for damage to certain cars, and sometimes their shapes too, will also push municipalities to remove them or to redo them to get back into line with the law. In total, about half of France's speed bumps will have to be destroyed or replaced. A hell of a job, but for once, motorists shouldn't complain too much.