New traffic-calming speed bumps will be installed in four different locations in West Vancouver. (CBC)

Speed freaks on the North Shore will soon have an impediment to their enjoyment of uninhibited acceleration: the humble speed bump is making a return to West Vancouver. 

The municipality banished speed bumps from its roads in 1987 as part of the district’s official policy.

A council report on the subject suggests that at the time council may have directed staff to do so because