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Can you advise your readers to use this TRL report when claiming for damage caused by speed humps?
It might be worth advising EM of Malton to make a more detailed claim to the Council for damage to his property caused by earth tremors from road humps using Transport Research Laboratory (TRL) Report 235 content in support of his claim (I recollect that you have referred to this Report yourself?). I succeeded with a claim for £2050 using this report's findings even when the Council had employed "expert engineers" to say there was no basis for claim. There were a number of aspects but first and foremost one has to establish a liability against the Council and demonstrate a breach of duty and/or a breach of statutory duty. Have they taken the claim seriously, have they used instruments to measure the impact/percussion vibrations etc.
Asked on 15 December 2012 by GS, via email
Answered by
Honest John
Many thanks for your support and for the repeat of that reference. Well done for beating the system. SK added:
"Further to EMs problem with vibrations caused by speed bumps, the Traffic and Road Research laboratory (as it then was) published research on the effect of such vibrations. TheTRL website is: www.trl.co.uk/online_store/reports_publications/tr...m
"Basically, the paper, ‘Traffic calming: vehicle generated noise and ground-borne vibration alongside sinusoidal round-top and flat-top road humps’ describes how far from the bumps the front wall of the house has to be before cracks appear, which depends on the soil type. The report costs £45 or £35 as a PDF. Hope this helps EM."
"Further to EMs problem with vibrations caused by speed bumps, the Traffic and Road Research laboratory (as it then was) published research on the effect of such vibrations. TheTRL website is: www.trl.co.uk/online_store/reports_publications/tr...m
"Basically, the paper, ‘Traffic calming: vehicle generated noise and ground-borne vibration alongside sinusoidal round-top and flat-top road humps’ describes how far from the bumps the front wall of the house has to be before cracks appear, which depends on the soil type. The report costs £45 or £35 as a PDF. Hope this helps EM."
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