government plans to remove speed humps in order to improve air quality have been attacked by road safety campaigners. 
Last month’s air quality plan highlighted the need for councils to reduce congestion in urban areas to help cut back pollution levels and the ideas put forward by the government include removing speed humps in congested areas so traffic flow could be improved. The thinking is that speed bumps cause drivers to repeatedly accelerate and brake, leading to higher emissions levels in the urban areas where they tend to be used. 
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But these plans have been labelled as “daft and irresponsible” by road safety campaigners who believe they will lead to more accidents. To find out whether speed humps should be removed from our roads or not, auto express has assembled the key arguments from the pro and anti speed hump camps.  
Why we should keep speed humps
Speed humps are vital to road safety as they prevent drivers from speeding, especially in built up areas and school zones. That’s the crux of the argument set out by the pro-speed hump lobby and it was clearly in line with government thinking until recently speed humps were allowed to proliferate on our streets. 
Living Streets, a children’s safety campaign has labelled the plans to get rid of speed bumps as “daft and irresponsible”. speaking to the BBC, it said it was worried that if councils removed speed humps without installing other measures to slow down drivers, children would be at a greater risk when walking to school.