In response to my suggestion to ban speed bumps and replace them with fixed speed cameras, except in really exceptional cases, the Ministry replied that speed bumps are allowed by law and are intended to reduce speeds effectively.Clearly, a typical answer. Sometimes it seems to me that all the replies from the competent authority are written by the same person, who is the most obtuse bureaucrat they have managed to find.
If that is the case, I see no real reason for any sort of regulation of local roads. Let them stay potholed. The potholed they are, the more traffic will be nicely slow. The digging up of existing roads for the maintenance of various lines is of course desirable, but the canals should not be re-paved, as they slow traffic down nicely.In Uganda, for example, the average speed on some roads is under 20 km/h. New roads do not even need to be hardened, so that potholes can be made as soon as possible to create speed bumps. Just cut down the trees and maybe every now and then a bulldozer will fill in the biggest potholes and get vehicles stuck inside. The winter service is also undesirable because it only increases the possible speed. The savings would, of course, be enormous, but the traffic would be beautifully slow.
The proposal is, of course, much more sensible than making nice smooth roads and then artificially creating bumps, which only benefits the construction lobby.