Controlling things
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Controlling things
Image: © Bob Harvey Taken: 7 Aug 2013
There are 16 sets of these concrete speed bumps in Beech Avenue, all of them with some sort of false kerb to narrow the road. This one has a particularly large chicane island. They were put in to stop people using the road as an unofficial bypass, and it certainly seems to have worked. When this estate was built there was a covenant on the houses preventing the front gardens being enclosed. Nowadays nearly everyone has some sort of fence or hedge, but not many are fully gated like the two adjacent houses here.
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