If you ever think the local authorities are coming down on hot rodders in your area, read up sometime on what the Aussies get to deal with on a daily basis. By comparison, we’re doing just fine. Case in point: the city of Hume, a suburb of Canberra, is a place filled mostly with industrial areas and a prison. Or, to a local who wants to blow off some steam and maybe a little rubber off of the tires, the ideal location. Except that the Hume City Council just approved the application of a chemical compound sprayed on the road surfaces that is designed to eat up tires that are spinning. It won’t hurt anyone just driving around, but if your itch for a good smokeshow is just too good to ignore, then kiss your tires goodbye…if you can even spin ’em. Hume already has specialized patrols to catch “hoons” and boasts a high rate of vehicle impounds.
The scene sounds familiar to Chatsworth, California. A street-racing scene in this Los Angeles community hit international news two years ago when a street racing crash killed two on a section of roadway known as “Canoga Speedway”. There, the city council has installed rumble strips at certain sections of the road in the hopes that it disrupts street racing activities.
There is no way, this does no harm to tires unless spinning..
Even only making tiny pin holes in the tread at 0.002 thousandth .
Will harm them.
I\’ll bet those that use those roads daily see tire wear go way up..
Cool, a prepped racing surface.
If some clown was performing a noisy smelly burnout outside my bedroom at 3.AM I wouldn’t need a specially prepared road surface – oh no. I’d just smash his car up with my prized crow bar and then kick his head into the consistency of cat food.
Mind with the 18 inch high speed bumps placed every 150 yards there’s thankfully not enough space to get the power up to burn rubber!
Noise violation turned into felony assault. Intelligent
oh dear. Geordie’s now gone full keyboard warrior. Tell us again about how you’d kill all the chevy owners too….
stupid thing is, unless people are total morons they’d tend to do burnouts out of town… I’d imagine the costs are going to skyrocket if they intend doing this to every back road in Australia…theres a fair few kays of them… I actually think theres a whiff of bullshit to this story anyway. In a land where every perceived case of hooning is all over the papers and sensationalist TV shows like Current Affair there hasn’t been any mention of this I’ve ever heard….
John it is in force and was all over the news last week