Drivers get the hump

Reading's bus drivers are threatening industrial action next month, in protest at having to drive over speed humps every day.

The drivers, members of the T&G general union, claim the route is causing back, knee and neck injuries. Branch chair Danny Downs said: "It's like someone behind you kicking your chair more than 1,000 times a day."

Reading council promised to reduce the humps' size in March but has failed to do so.

Similar complaints about the traffic-calming measures have been raised by bus drivers in Sheffield and other cities.