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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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- brooksby 3 sec ago
I trust that the police will be putting some effort into stopping this?...
- OldRidgeback 2 min 10 sec ago
The good doctor might like to know that the very busy KIng's College Hospital in South London has a cycle lane running right past its entrance. I...
- stonojnr 23 min 54 sec ago
What does Tao expect to happen ? Tv companies should just buy rights to show sport and give it away free at a loss ? They aren't the ones making...
- Freddy56 31 min 31 sec ago
a thus mr squirrel (and by your agressive tone your a grey not a red squirrell and by the amount of christmas card you received you know in your...
- Sredlums 44 min 2 sec ago
That was the point. They DO count if one were to accept that every single GT winner was as dirty as Armstrong.
- Rendel Harris 54 min 40 sec ago
Some vandal added one of those to the Dunbar Wharf board's sign in Limehouse that perfectly reasonably prohibits cyclists from riding over the...
- hawkinspeter 1 hour 35 min ago
Three in hospital after car crashes into tree:...
- Toffee 1 hour 34 min ago
I actually really like it? It looks fairly generic aero bike, and yet is quite handsome. Only four sizes is quite restrictive though...
- don simon fbpe 3 hours 8 min ago
Who, in their right mind, is going to pay over 30 quid a month for the witterings of Carlton Kirby? #blessingindisguise
- Bikefatman 3 hours 19 min ago
Poor guy, never happened with me as I'm using an old bike computer
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Good earnings for those "recovery" drivers.
The account in the Mirror is much better - no idea why this is national news though.
...Department for Transport suggest it will take South Gloucestershire Council 742 years to repair its crumbling roads and potholes
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/woman-90-gets-kebab-delivered-2...
So it will allow you to continue with your eyes closed as long as your hands are on the steering wheel?
Actually technically students are only allowed to have a car in Cambridge with permission from the University Senior Proctor, which will only be considered if supported by the student's college. However even thirty-five years ago there seemed to be a blind eye policy and as far as I know it hasn't been toughened since. It's a bit like the requirement to spend three-fourths of each term in residence within three miles of Great St.Mary's, nobody checks up.
Erm - 'steadily slow down to a stop' while driving on the motorway (the only road it's able to use this 'self-driving' tech on)?
But it's ok as, if that car is rear ended, Ford can they say that the accident wouldn't have happened if the other car also had Ford's self-driving technology.
The only way to solve the dangers of their system is for every vehicle to have it. In much the same way as the only way to stop mass shootings in the USA is more guns
Correct - you can see this as either an arms race ("I have to drive my kids to school as everyone else does, it's not safe to walk / cycle") or a self-reinforcing strategy.
Like this?
This one used to be a wing mirror graveyard. Once saw a wedged 4x4 being recovered by a tow truck: https://goo.gl/maps/8UPukHVUhEUYpMZ68
PS: threading doesn't seem to work for me on this thread at all, which makes it quite a challenge to follow. Is it just me (I also get it on other long threads like Pictures of Your Bike)?
Well of course, the dog might be blind and elderly, but it still has to eat.
I think you mean, "when did Eryri become Snowdonia?"
I like the way the foliage covers the width restriction sign !
We overloaded the threading ages ago I'm afraid. Requests for a fix fall on deaf ears.
It always was. That's its name.
According to Wikipedia, "The term Eryri first appeared in a manuscript in the 9th-century Historia Brittonum, in an account of the downfall of the semi-legendary 5th-century king Gwrtheyrn (Vortigern)."
The use of Eryri (for Snowdonia) and Wyddfa (for the Snowdon peak) has become more widespread in recent years and last year Snowdonia National Park Authority voted to use Yr Wyddfa and Eryri rather than Snowdon and Snowdonia:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-63649930
Meanwhile in Plympton Road, NW6:
https://twitter.com/profKayW/status/1644011248097304576
Clarkson's Farm TV series 'misleading', says West Oxfordshire District Council
Thie farm's dealings with the local authority sounds suitably knockabout and chaotic. Er , yes Mr spokesman, I don't think people want an hour of your planning meeting:
"In a statement, a WODC spokesperson said: “The planning meeting shown in Clarkson’s Farm ran for well over an hour but was covered in a matter of minutes in the show".
https://www.itv.com/news/meridian/2023-03-08/clarksons-farm-tv-series-mi...
Clarkson's Farm: 7 'fake' things Jeremy Clarkson doesn't show you about Diddly Squat Farm
Lifelong Clarkson fan pays a visit, struggles to conceal his disappointment.
https://www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/news/celebs-tv/clarksons-farm-7-fake-...
EDIT : item on Sky News saying a West Oxon Cllr has received a death threat re all of the above. Nice lot, aren't they?
another edit:
Resident blasts ‘motorheads’ who visit Jeremy Clarkson’s Diddly Squat farm shop
https://www.oxfordshirelive.co.uk/news/oxfordshire-news/resident-blasts-...
Fed up with pedestrians in your way - simply remove them with your massive truck. In the unlikely event you don't kill them outright, you can finish the job with your wing mounted shotgun.
(not entirely sure if the shotgun is a photoshop addition or not )
I think I lost sympathy, not that i had a great deal to begin with, when I saw how close the pothole was to the kerb https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/23379467.bury-st-edmunds-pothole-gave-driver...
D'oh a deer...driver in the countryside surprised to see deer https://www.northnorfolknews.co.uk/news/23380264.video-herd-deer-cross-s...
drivers bemoaning the absence of parking meters - say whaaaat
Ah yes, this will be the ones who are all perfectly safe to drive Cornwall's narrow lanes, but "Lots of confused and frustrated older customers calling in [the] shop asking what is happening with it as they either don't have a smart phone or are confused by multiple apps and longwinded payments."
https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/cornwall-ticket-machines...
£2.50 to park after 6 pm.
I'm old enough to remember when £2.50 really would have got you 2 pints of lager and a packet of crisps - can you get anything to drink in a pub for that much now?
Oh, don't tell me the cost will be met from delaying buying that replacement tyre for the one that's on 1.8mm, or that brake disc with the amber advisory.
Wow, Mr Jones, imagine people getting things they need locally, rather than driving into Truro for them:
Cornwall Council's proposed car park increases 'will have serious impact' on Truro
BID manager writes: "Obviously our nighttime economy and leisure sectors may see a decline in customer numbers once those customers will have to pay for late afternoon / evening parking."
Mr Jones added: "Truro’s footfall data year to date versus 2019 is tracking at -27% therefore we need to be encouraging our customers into the city centre and not potentially providing a further barrier of increasing the car park charges which may see customers choosing to shop micro local in their own villages / towns rather than popping into Truro"
https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/cornwall-councils-propos...
Ah nuts! Comments closed as a result almost certainly due to mad driver posters - AGAIN!
https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/23386155.legal-action-taken-counc...
Don't wear a hairclip when driving.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-64966149
Nothing to do with
"In the thick fog I couldn't see clearly and I came to an unexpected bend. I tried to brake and make the turn on time, but I lost control of the car and it skidded across to the other side of the road.
"I think I hit a tree, which caused the car to flip - the police said it flipped 50 metres," she said.
Baby hospitalised in collision with bike hanger that ‘council was warned could be dangerous’
https://southwarknews.co.uk/news/baby-hospitalised-in-collision-with-bik...
Good job that in the long parking bay that there were no cars she could have crashed into. Oh wait, crashing into parked cars is normal.
"A motorist is more likely to make national news headlines if he knocks over a nine year-old girl’s snowman than if he knocks over a nine year-old girl. Fact."
https://twitter.com/jonburkeUK/status/1636125264575954947
Lincolnshire Police promoting Op Snap with their Dodgy Driving volume 3 compilation (there is one 1 cyclist cam video in it) https://www.lincs.police.uk/news/lincolnshire/news/2023/mar-2023/operati...
also are we surprised or not the number of Audis involved in these
Earby man banned from the road after trying to help at crash
So you're caught over the drink drive limit after stopping your car to help after a crash. How do you defend such a charge?
Start with
And, if that doesn't work, try a bit of whataboutary:
https://www.cravenherald.co.uk/news/23393386.earby-man-banned-road-tryin...
"Look LBH at this chaos you created by your ill-planned schemes. Massive congestion, more pollution, more accidents. "
"How does the layout cause somebody to drive their car into the side of a massive red bus driving down a straight piece of road?"
Exact date when Paignton's ring road will open again
A reminder from the article of the belly-aching when this started: "When work began on the road, businesses in Brixham warned that they were going to be “cut off” for the duration of the project, and local schools and colleges said their students would face long delays getting to and from their studies"
From what I can see, Brixham seems to have survived, and it hasn't been the Seige of Paris 1870-71 after all.
Open in time for Easter, BTW.
https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/exact-date-paigntons-ring-road...
Villagers fear being 'trapped in homes' during major roadworks
We haven't had a trapped in our homes story for a while:
“It’s a nightmarish thought as there are around 350 residents’ cars that need to use the diversion, quite apart from delivery, service and emergency vehicles. Many of us are afraid of being trapped in our homes or facing unmanageable traffic problems,” said Mrs Hibberd. “We are sick with worry.”
https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/villagers-fear-trapped...
Aye! It's tough for drivers oop in t'North. In Lancashire, even the MOT testing garages can't afford MOTs!
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