The following comment was received from Ciaran to this post and this post is open for comments: 

who ever the hell thinks its a good idea to tear up the bumps is completely
inccorect and unaware of why they were originaly put there and what taking them
up will do. kingston avenue is a small street and with the parking of the
hospital workers it is even smaller. my family have had to stop parking our car
they because of fear that it will be hit and get a windmirror nocked of or
scraped, again. the amount of times we have trailed of to a scrap yard to pick
up a new mirror is unbeleavable. crazy divers came tearing along the street at
a unbeleavable speed without a care for the kids playing in the street or the
cars parked on the street. It is not safe for a ambulance to come down this
street at a pace anyfaster than they already are. if the government or are
national health have a problem with the being road calming bumps on this street
then they need to build another one. Taking the bumps up will only cause more
accidents, and that is exactly what the national health service and the
govenment do not want. It is not the fault of us that the hospital is placed in
such an awkward place, what is worse is that the hospital workers park their
cars on the streets with trafice calming, clogging the streets up so much that
they are generally huge argumants and jams and then they wander why it needs to
have bumps. the edinburgh council were one hundred percent correct in placing
calming on these streets, if there is now a prolem then the council needs to
build a new road somewhere close to the hospital but without houses on the
street, it is completely unreasnobale to expect our streets to be uprooted, to
make it ok for veicals to go faster on them.