If you ever take a drive through Clifton Hill, and it is a lovely suburb to drive through, keep an eye out for the speed humps. They are scattered quite liberally around the streets. Most of them are the ‘plateau’ type – a gentle rise, wide flat section, then a gentle fall. You can go over these at a reasonable speed – actually you can go over these pretty much as fast as you like – they are more speed undulations than a hump.
Then there are those on Ramsden Street. Oh boy. These aren’t designed just to slow you down, these humps are designed to rip the transmission out of your car if you so much as travel more than 5 kmph over them. They don’t look that lethal as you approach them – but after the first time your car is catapulted in the air, you certainly slow down before the next one. I pity the people living near them (especially the first hump near Hoddle Street), they must constantly hear the sound of tearing metal as another engine is seperated from a car.
