Resident claims "at least 100 cars" have blown their tyres on kerb separating cycle lane from road

If you have an armco opposite the apex of an alpine descent to stop drivers going over the edge, would you remove it because too many people were hitting it? It's clearly doing its job.

Surely we must be up to a thousand by now, why aren't the mainstream media all over it, Martin Lewis offering guidance on compensation etc.?

Perhaps if someone could set up a wabcam, bit of editing and it could be a hilarious as these rising bollard idiot crashes-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IELpd43PMvk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIas-5pwpZk

‘Drivers are only hitting it at 20-30mph’

Imagine the car-nage (pardon the pun) if they were driving any faster. How fast do they want to drive within 100m of a school, in a built up urban area, adjacent to (an invisible) cycle path, at a roundabout?!?

This is the problem with car driving in general. It’s a culture thing.

SKIDSY 

At least the dim witted motorists know when they are about to encroach on the cycle lane though. I say, install laser triggered machine guns as well.

All this tells me is that there are as many shit drivers in Cambridge as there are in Preston. Excuses, excuses, excuses. It's the blasted kerb, it's the cyclists, it's the tarmac. 

No. It's the drivers. Probably the same drivers who tell cyclists that they should be wearing hi-viz. No, it's the drivers responsibility to ensure their eyesight is of the standard needed to be handed the privilege of a driving license. It is not the responsibility of the council to ensure the kerbs are painted in day-glo pink, it is not the responsibility of cyclists to ensure they are lit up like a Christmas tree. It is the responsibility of the driver to ensure that THEY CAN SEE!!!!!

That kerb is not high enough to cause a proper puncture. . . 
I could easily ride over that in my car and it'd be fine, that's a lower edge than many of the UK speed hollows, erm, potholes, the kerbstone is also rounded on the top edges. If that's bursting tyres, the tyres were already defective.
More likly is cars flying around the roundabout too fast, scrubbinh their (most likely low profile) tyres against it as the car attempts to turn, and popping the tyre off the rim momentarily, letting the air out. I'd be interested to see the tyre dimensions and car types of these 100+ that have had their tyres "punctures" in the 3 week period.

It needs a bollard on the end, like a pedestrian island.

In all seriousness, and it's difficult after seeing that Specsavers car crash... If the photo with the cargo bike is the spot, there ought to be more to warn of the kerb. Many drivers are either generally useless or not immune to lapses. They follow the car in front on the assumption that they don't need to think, and often drive in steady-state mode unless prompted to change. This looks like a small traffic island and needs a keep right arrow.

I know some will say that this shouldn't be needed, but until the revolution we need in driver training and car use reduction, we are where we are.

It's working then.

The complete absence of tyre marks in the photos accompanying the article has the needle on my bullshitometer wound right up. Nothing to see here folks, just another passive aggressive cyclist hater trying to make themselves important.

Maybe if the drunken and drugged up little joy riding t**ts were not burning rubber in a nicked Fiesta then they wouldn't be bursting their tyres.

But they dont care as its not their car anyway and their too drunk/drugged to care.

If that many cars had really burst 100 tyres in less than a week - dont you think it would have been all over National News.

Over exageration as normal to someone who now has an issue that he cant park outside his house - probaly the same moron who places notices on Ambulance's not to park outside his house.

How does he know it is 100 cars?
Perhaps instead of watching behind net curtains, he could stand on the kerb in the style of a TdF Marshall waving a yellow flag.

Better to hit kerbs rather than cyclists I think, well done the council.

My car has lights fitted. These 'lights' allow me to see the kerb in the dark.

I'm amazed they don't fit lights to cars in Cambridge.

Not at all sure a cycle-provision "safety audit" is in order?

Just perhaps ... a "driver audit" might be more worth worthwhile?

Hey ... in these times of austerity, maybe the council could link up with Specsavers?  

Similar things albeit with incredibly obvious reflective bollards have recently been installed in Oxford near the hospital, and drivers still manage to crash into them. I was a few feet away from a vehicle colliding with one on a recent commute, and the exploding tyre was LOUD.

"The other day I saw an Audi hit the kerb and spin into oncoming traffic. That road is less than 100 feet from a school. It's an accident waiting to happen."

And the complainant does not see the irony here?
You have to be going at a decent lick to spin a car by contacting the kerb. If Audi drivers within 30m of a school can not moderate their speed enough to reliably discern the edge of the road then maybe they need to be curbed.

I suspect they arent talking about the colour of the kerb stone as black but rather as from the image on Cambridgeshire live the "killer kerb" (and they use that label) to them is the whole separator thing itself which is like kerbing stones surrounding a lozenge of black tarmac and drivers arent seeing the lozenge of black tarmac as it's the same colour as the road and the kerbing is actually fairly low, no doubt as a higher kerb would have been thought to cause more damage for cars driving into it...I've seen examples where they used bollards on that kind of setup,vehicles just drive into the bollards instead

Really? Should have gone to Specsavers...

A car hits a kerb at 20 - 30 mph hits a kerb and spins across the road.  Pull the other one!