Manual Cars Crossing Over Speed Breakers Or Bonggols
Children and old folks become their targets. Residents have little choice but appeal to the local authorities to built speed breakers.
Official speed breakers can only be constructed by the Majlis Perbandaran. The local authorities have rules and regulations that has to be adhered to with regards to the building of speed bumps.
Road engineers and traffic consultants advise the Majlis Perbandaran as to the suitable spot to build speed breakers.
At certain areas, a speed breaker cannot be built. One such place is a road which leads to a junction.
My housing estate once encountered such a problem. No amount of pleading requests could get the council to agree building a speed breaker.
As the residents’ safety was more important than anything else, resident had to resort to “pulling cables” with a well known local Yang Berhormat before it could be built.
The building of a speed bump is not that simple. Specifications require a speed breaker to be of specific height and fairly elongated. Such speed breakers are fairly easy to cross.
Motorists love such speed breakers. But they can cost a lot of money to build.
The Majlis prefer to build speed breaker which are shorter as they require less money to construct. For your information, the shorter speed breakers are more difficult to cross.
Not all drivers can negotiate crossing such as a bonggol. Besides this, crossing such a speed breaker can cause extensive damage to some types of vehicles.
Some vehicles which have soft absorbers are reported to have their under carriage grazed while crossing the bonggol. Plastic fuel lines located underneath the bodywork of new cars have been frequently reported to have suffered extensive damage while crossing speed breakers such as these.
Speed breakers built by Majlis Perbandaran are painted in black and white. A few yards before the bonggol, the law stipulates that on either side, there should be a road sign indicating the presence of a speed breaker. This is to warn motorists of the potential danger.
If accidents and unforeseen incidents should occur, legal action can be instituted against those who are responsible.
The purpose of this article is not to relate to you the history of speed breakers. The intention of this article is to advice you the correct manner or method of crossing a bonggol.
Auto cars essentially have little problems crossing speed breakers. When approaching speed breakers, all auto drivers need to do is to slow down, control a bit of brakes, and the car will do the rest.
Irregardless of whether a speed breaker is of the short type or the elongated soft version, the technique to be used is the same.
Crossing a speed breaker to those driving manual cars will pose some problems. This is because if you do not possesses the correct technique to manipulate the crossing of a bonggol, then obviously you will face difficulties.
To get across an elongated speed breaker is not a problem. Slow down slightly and proceed across slowly and gently.
For the shorter version and those which are slightly higher, manual gear drivers should approach the speed breaker, slow down and upon reaching the speed breaker, step on the brakes gently, engage gear one ideally, get across the speed breaker gently, release the clutch slowly and gently to get across.
Accelerate slightly as you cross the speed breaker to gain momentum and off you go!
However, there are certain speed breakers which are extremely low. In such cases, a driver is suggested to come to the speed breaker slowly, step on the brakes gently and get across the breaker using 2nd gear only. There is no necessity to use gear one.
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