I WAS interested to read the letter from A J Burnett (Roads Show Our Council Is Clueless And Incompetent, News Shopper, December 17) concerning speed humps.

I hate speed humps, particularly the cushion type which come in twos or threes across the road.

These slow down cars but not vans and lorries due to their wider wheel spacing.

Other traffic-calming measures are not effective and ruin the look of our neighbourhoods.

Conservative councillors on Bexley Council are concerned, so we have formed a sub-committee to look into traffic-calming measures.

Most of the bad traffic schemes are paid for by Transport for London (TfL) and not by the council and most were put in when Labour controlled the council.

Fortunately, we are now seeing TfL starting to have a more sensible approach and giving Bexley Council more say in what traffic schemes can be put in place.

There does seem to be sufficient evidence to suggest traffic-calming measures do save lives, so we can’t just get rid of everything.

We are looking at traffic calming schemes which are acceptable, which work and which improve the look of our neighbourhoods. A difficult but not impossible challenge.

Councillor Colin Tandy and went to Portsmouth to look at a 20mph speed limit scheme.

In these zones there are no traffic-calming measures and the speed limit is enforced to 20mph, as opposed to 20mph zones where the speed limit is 30mph and speed is reduced by traffic-calming measures.

COUNCILLOR JOHN DAVEY

Lesnes Abbey ward