Drivers and their problems

Very entertaining, although not quite as much fun as it would have been with an Audi or BMW

Clearly the police wouldn't stand for his uprights.

250kg of piano... I hope he checked the damper pedal was working before every ascent and descent!

chrisonatrike wrote:

BBC use of the Oxford bollard: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65243274 Not a bad article for the beeb - bingo list of quotes: 'Mr Parnham says the schemes have "torn the city apart". ' (How - easier to walk and cycle?) Taxpayers Alliance say "What we are against is schemes being used as cash cows." (just don't break the law then). Finally Lawrence Fox: "We should be seeking more freedom, not less," - which the beeb counter with a resident's quote pointing out more driving freedom has reduced everyone else's freedom to do many other things, including breathe freely.

I read that earlier - I'll be honest that this whole BBC 'impartiality' thing seems to me to be gradually falling apart...

Bit stupid doing it twice !

Know this ford well, used to live quite near. As a boy, getting on my bicycle with a few mates to go down after the rain and make a bit of money pushing drivers and their soggy cars out was considered an afternoon well spent.

Good.

At long last.

Will someone please think of the vets !

David9694 wrote:

Find out where the worst drivers in Britain are

One area of London is home to more bad drivers than anywhere else in the United Kingdom

I guess the shading indicates the number of drivers per locality with over 6 pp or more. 

Most  places are c5% with some PPs, but I found some orange shaded parts of Leeds where it was 10%. 

https://www.devonlive.com/news/uk-world-news/find-out-worst-drivers-brit...

I grew up - and learnt to drive - in CR0.  I've not lived there since 1993, though.  Also, it is named a shamed for having the highest number of drivers with 6+ points, but that seems to be an absolute number rather than proportion, as it comes in at 4% (same as where I live now).

This is why I think there needs to be a new approach to the "default" NSL speed on remote roads - maybe 30 until assessed instead of 60? Most roads in the UK are NSL because they're too remote to warrant an assessment, not because it's a remotley sensible idea to actually drive down them at anything close to 60mph.

I live well out in the sticks - it's all single-track 'round here. The thing is with single-track is that they're essentially ancient footpaths and farm tracks that people started driving cars on rather than "proper" roads. There are loads of small hamlets on these tracks that predate cars by hundreds of years, and people have no choice but to use them on foot. People walk on them to their local shops, to their parked car, their padocks, they walk their dogs on them, some people's front doors literally open onto them.

Yet the average motorist will see an NSL sign above an obviously blind, winding and narrow track, and will think it's their God-given right to drive down it at 60mph.

wtjs wrote:

Very entertaining, although not quite as much fun as it would have been with an Audi or BMW

or ford, kia, hyundai, mercedes, mazda, honda, totota etc etc

Hope he never played Chopin's Ballade No.4 in F minor - it would have meant four flats.

Phew! I thought you were linking to this for a moment:

"Sunderland man captured seagull and masturbated over it before telling cops he was trying to call a vet"

https://twitter.com/LBC/status/1651156803407757312?s=20

Steve K wrote:

I grew up - and learnt to drive - in CR0.  I've not lived there since 1993, though.  Also, it is named a shamed for having the highest number of drivers with 6+ points, but that seems to be an absolute number rather than proportion, as it comes in at 4% (same as where I live now).

My parents-in-law live there, I wouldn't be greatly surprised if it did top the charts for offending drivers; it certainly has the greatest number of recklessly driven BMWs, Audis and Mercs, usually with illegal tints and gut-busting sound systems. Definitely my least favourite place to cycle in London.

Possibly depends on which bit of CR0 you mean - it's a big postcode area which covers very different bits of Croydon 

Fair point, they live almost in the centre, off Park Lane, it's a racetrack there. It's about 12 km from us on the most direct route, we tend to ride around 16/17 km to avoid the worst of it.

Yeah, around the centre is horrible.

I'm certainly thinking more about why the vets is next to the butchers

Excellent!  Originally I was trying to remember another skit (can't even remember who did it) which had a segment with someone trying to get their piano driving licence round the streets...

I've got Ian Dury stuck in my head now though!  "He's got his little garage and he's got his little car and he wants a bit of Wembley up his Khyber Pass"

stonojnr wrote:

I'm certainly thinking more about why the vets is next to the butchers

"Mr Chinnery"