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Drivers and their problems
A new catch-all Tea Shop thread for those miscellaneous new stories that don't quite fit with parking, crashing into buildings or trapped/prisoners in their homes.
If you're new please join in and if you have questions pop them below and the forum regulars will answer as best we can.
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- Nikolai 3 min 47 sec ago
Unfortunately it was a rather persuasive article. "A falsehood has got halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on!"
- Hirsute 16 min 20 sec ago
On some of the faster segments in London, someone found that the 2nd and 3rd in the list were achieved during Ride London.
- i-am-furious 16 min 27 sec ago
Drivers complain about a war on motorists then crap like this gets waved through planning
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Not sure the glass roof is up to that.
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And, more seriously, where's the coverage of the closure of the cycle lane which forces you to cycle on the Totton bypass.
Sudbury has more going for it than Hadleigh but the local Sudbury councillors demanded a vote of no confidence as a result of the "shameful" decision.
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/24244100.sudbury-councillors-brand-parking-c...
Ooo, yikes!
It's funny how on the one hand it's all a war on the hard-working motorist while the bl00dy cyclists unfairly receive all that taxpayers' money (really?) and yet on the other hand the motorists still insist on free or insanely cheap parking for their vehicles…
Ah yes, spoken from the delicious position of The Sidelines and not having to put your hand in your own pocket to continue to subsidise drivers.
Its the story that just keeps giving, the councillor who has submitted the request to call in the decision and wants 1 hr free car parking is from the Green party!!!
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/24247158.sudbury-hadleigh-lavenham-parking-c...
I like that financial grounds are "narrow".
Not heard of that expression but have read some of the detail before in a different context. Does seem to relate to another person rather than a company and I thought the same as HP that the normal operation of Tier is to leave the bikes on public property, so I don't think there would be a duty of care beyond making sure there was no obstruction of the highway.
And then you say, "what's the second prize?"
Actually as the article says people have arrived to hire the scooter, he should hire them for 1 minute and leave them in public space!
Don't TIER scooters have a geofenced area where you must leave them? In which case, they might have ended up fining him for leaving them outside the area marked for leaving them.
Definitely in it
https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1EOMwwJ0WEDfXDSIn9tq8bWNlsg...
Oh fair enough - I'd thought that the parking areas were drawn a lot tighter than that.
it's their human rite
I really don't understand how drivers can hit this tree stump - it's on the pavement, it's not like it's in the middle of the road.
You have to feel sorry for this poor driver
Only to a degree! He shoud have had the sense to come to Lancashire where all this petty bureaucracy of number plates, VED, MOT etc. has long since been abandoned
I saw that and had mixed opinions about it as TIER aren't the best run business around, but the bloke had no right to move the bikes into his storage container and then try charging them for storage.
I think he should have informed the police/council about TIER fly tipping e-waste instead.
Good to see the person in yellow apologising to the driver for having caused this.
Stump wasn't wearing hi-vis - clad in dark low-contrast bark.
Stump wobbled and suddenly fell in front of the car.
Stump wasn't wearing a helmet ("is this right, counsel?")
Stump unexpectedly appeared where no careful, competent driver would expect it (on pavement)
Driver was distracted by having to avoid a stump on the opposite pavement.
"Exceptional" weather conditions prevented the driver from seeing the stump (dark due to night, overcast, spot of rain)
Sun was in the driver's eyes.
Driver said they had looked several times but "simply failed to see it".
Assuming you're referring to the tractor, I believe there are slightly different requirements for agricultural vehicles with limited use on public roads. Can't say for sure whether this tractor is compliant, but equally not confident it isn't.
Good to see the person in yellow apologising to the driver for having caused this
No, he's Praising the Lord for saving him from being killed! Fire and Rescue turned up a couple of hours later to knock down the teetering walls, and the council has done a good job of shoring up the remainder. This could all have been much worse- there's a lot of pedestrian traffic coming and going to the river off left, and vehicle traffic parking.
Driver has no recollection of hitting the stump.
OK- let's try Lancashire Audis, then. This is as good as No Plate
Stump was hard to pick out against the copse in the background.
Car aquaplaned and hit the stump.
It was 5 seconds of madness.
Dear Insurer re damage to front bumper
" I drove on the wrong pavement and hit a tree stump that should not have been there ".
Or this
How many licence plates do you need on a tractor?
According to the small print in the regs, you need to have one on both sides at the front of the tractor, as well as at the back of the cab. However, almost all tractors just have a rear one, which suggests that there is something of gap out there between theory and practice.
https://www.fwi.co.uk/machinery/5-point-q-a-to-help-you-with-licence-pla...
Far from an expert, but a brief google suggests to me that the article you have linked is wrong - tractors need plates on both sides or on the rear of the vehicle (or rear of trailer, if towing a trailer).
There's an extensive thread here (which actually links to the same FWI article as you): https://forum.cyclinguk.org/viewtopic.php?t=152006
AFAIK the current relevant legistlation is https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/561/regulation/8/made
You'd think the residents would be keen to retain the stump as protection against the 'Sudden Unexplained Car in the Front Room' incident shown on the 'Drivers in Your House' topic- if a Honda driver can do that, just imagine how far through the house a BMW or Audi could get!
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