RESIDENT John King claims traffic-calming measures in his road are not slowing down vehicles.

Mr King, 47, said that speed tables put down on Pound Lane, Marlow, have little or no effect.

He believes that Buckinghamshire County Council needs to improve the speed tables or take more severe measures or they will be a waste of taxpayers' money.

Mr King said: "You can easily go over them at 30mph and it would be possible for drivers to go over them much faster."

A spokesman for the county council said work on the traffic-calming measures in Pound Lane had not yet been finished. He said there was still an extra layer to go on top of the tables and once work had been finished they would be effective in reducing the speed of vehicles.

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