Despite requests for a 20mph speed limit or that chicanes be provided, the main artery of our estate has recently been ‘blessed’ with seven pairs of the dreaded speed cushions. In the main they have made little difference to speeding: they are straddled by those vehicles which can; others that cannot straddle in the main choose to drive between a pair (with much dodging of oncoming vehicles intent on doing the same), but with their wheels going over the chamfered edges of the cushions – something that you regularly warn against. Yet other drivers of smaller cars look upon the individual cushions as a manhood-challenge as they drive at them full-tilt as if a jockey and horse jumping Bleacher’s Brook. As for myself, rather than ruin my tyres by ‘chamfering’ them, I choose to ‘ruin’ my suspension instead by driving at only 7/8 mph with one side of my car on the flat and the other side going directly over the cushion. Most uncomfortable. Worse is the frightening prospect that, because I am one of a tiny minority of such drivers, a speeding motorist behind me might be taken by surprise at my cautious manoeuvre and may then crash straight into the back of me. These infernal devices are indeed a curse on all motorists; they add to road dangers rather than minimise them.