A SERIES of rumble strips meant to calm traffic in Andover's Weyhill Road are to be removed just a few months after they were installed as part of a scheme designed to discourage through traffic using the road.

The change was announced by the area's county councillor, David Kirk, who explained the thinking behind the move. "These raised sections were doing nothing to slow the traffic but were making a very annoying sound when vehicles drove across them," he said.

"They were a good idea in principle but they were not quite high enough to slow the traffic, so speeds have not dropped as a result of their introduction although other measures have been more successful.

"What they have done is create a din and annoyed residents when lorries and trailers pass over them.

"I was in the room of one house very close to a strip and the noise could quite clearly be heard when a lorry passed by."

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