I RECENTLY had first-hand proof that Cllr Harkin's speed bump ideas are not working.

At 3.30pm, I was on Auburn Street in Daubhill collecting some electronic equipment from a customer's house. As I returned to the van with some of the equipment, I could hear the loud roar of two car engines at full throttle. As I looked round to see where the sound was coming from, two cars full of youths came hurtling round the corner, took off over the speed bumps and raced off down the street and round the next corner. Two minutes later they came back the other way.

When I went back into the customer's house, I said to her: "Do you get that all the time?" She replied: "Yes, a lot."

Now Auburn Street is a small street of terraced houses, as are all the streets around it. It is full of parked cars and, at that time of day, kids coming home from school.

There are speed bumps all around that area (and quite big ones at that), but, as I personally witnessed, these youths do not seem to care in the slightest about ramming their (or not their own, as the case may be) cars over the speed bumps and generally driving dangerously.

Eddie Dicker

York Avenue

Little Lever