Like them or hate them the speed bump / sleeping policeman celebrates its 40th Anniversary. They originated from America much earlier, but in Britain we waited until 1983 before they were deemed necessary to help calm speedy road users. There are now over 42,000 across the UK, with a massive growth in the 1990’s as part of other forms of (physical and psychological) traffic calming. In Europe, they first appeared in 1970 in the Netherlands. In England they were quickly dubbed ‘sleeping policemen’: in France they’re less euphemistically known as «dos d’âne»: ‘donkey backs’.
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