Lynne Featherstone

I trolled off to Blackfriar’s Pub to meet Jo Weiss and Archie Galloway from the Corporation of London to look at a very special road hump – a clever and intelligent road hump.

Archie had written to me to come and look at a prototype they had in place as a pilot in the city. After a swift one at the pub, w popped off to examine the said hump. It is fab!

It allows vehicles to go over it at say 20mph (if that is what the hump is set at) and if you go over at the correct speed or lower the air filter system in the rubber hump deflates, so you go over a flat surface. However, if you are going faster, it remains rigid. Clever hump – it doesn’t really inconvenience drivers who are going at sensible speeds.

Next step for the miracle hump is a trial with buses. Very interesting afternoon.

Followed by my youngest daughter’s school play. She was stage manager – and I thought the stage management was absolutely the best bit!