[David9694]

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. 

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[mdavidford]

Parliament wants an

Parliament wants an investigation into how courier exploitation is causing people’s parcels to go missing:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ceq107yxxjyo

(But not a single mention of the terrible driving that this is causing and the danger it puts us all in – as long as we get our presents under the tree, that’s what matters, eh?)

[David9694]

If your road safety campaign

If your road safety campaign doesn’t follow this basic rule, you don’t really care about road safety that much.

(#SimpleRules No. 341)

(by Heroes for Zero Brussels)

Urban Cycling Institute 

[wtjs]

DVLA has told employees that
DVLA has told employees that vouchers previously issued for team Christmas lunches will no longer be available as it looks to ‘ensure responsible use of taxpayers’ money’
Well, they’re certainly not wasting any of it on enforcing VED payment! To save repeating the Lilian Greenwood/ DVLA/ BF64 TGE saga, it’s about halfway down here:
https://road.cc/content/news/activists-want-targets-new-funding-announced-317235
Greenwood’s ‘Letter from DVLA’ is here:
https://road.cc/content/news/london-cyclists-fined-riding-pavement-under-pspo-315087

[chrisonabike]

Conservatives remind us there
Conservatives remind us there is still a choice of 3 parties implementing the MAGA agenda, not just Reform for the full version and Labour with a lite one (sometimes apparently after bullying and under protest):

BBC wrote:

Tories to scrap petrol car ban if they win next election

Apparently it’s “economic self-harm”. I guess the folks who took us out of Europe would know *…

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c36z84ej6e0o

* If only they’d said “it may cost us – at least in the short term – but there are other good reasons to do it anyway” – but generally that wasn’t the advert…

[David9694]

A slight stretch to DVLA and

A slight stretch to DVLA and their problems, but I’m pretty sure this is a decent shot at a ‘Christmas is Cancelled’ story.

DVLA accused of ‘total lack of respect’ as free Christmas dinner for staff cancelled

The DVLA has told employees that vouchers previously issued for team Christmas lunches will no longer be available as it looks to ‘ensure responsible use of taxpayers’ money’

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/dvla-accused-total-lack-respect-33049157

[David9694]

Feeling your pain, I dId a

Feeling your pain, I dId a Google News search.  Mainly, people are trapped in their homes because of broken lifts, or changes to property prices.  I can’t see anything saying this situation has been resolved: 

Inside Midland street where landslip has left residents blocked in for 12 months

Homeowners in Haden Cross Drive are having to ‘battle it out’ for parking spaces after a landslide left them unable to use their driveways since October last year

For the past 12 months, around a dozen properties have been cut off by a massive mound of earth which has fallen onto Haden Cross Drive in Cradley Heath.

Homeowners say they’ve been forced to park 100 metres down the road, while they have to leave their wheelie bins at the bottom of the street and “cart” their shopping all the way back up.

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/black-country/inside-midland-street-landslip-left-32589655

For the bonus, “I told you so” – from 2020

https://www.dudleynews.co.uk/news/18539192.concerns-huge-earth-mound-cradley-heath-housing-development/

[wtjs]

to be fair to West Yorkshire
to be fair to West Yorkshire Police (who are rubbish and institutionally anti-cyclist) they do publish the stats.
But we don’t believe them! Lies, damn’ lies…etc.

[wtjs]

Another resident said it took
Another resident said it took around 25 minutes to drive the length of just seven cars in the estate
The Joy, The Joy! It’s got ‘prisoners in their own homes’, it even has ‘it’s ridiculous’- doesn’t get much better than this! I only wish you’d added ‘Do Not Read until Christmas Day or your birthday’ or any other day of potential increased happiness. It seems rather wasted on just Saturday night.

[David9694]

‘Nightmare roadworks have

‘Nightmare roadworks have made us prisoners in our own homes’

Pupils have reportedly ended up in detention for being late

Roadworks on the edge of a residential estate in Gloucester are causing mayhem for residents who say they feel like prisoners in their own homes.

Nobody is listening. It’s taking people up to 2 hours to drive 2 miles.

Another resident said it took around 25 minutes to drive the length of just seven cars in the estate.

https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/gloucester-news/nightmare-roadworks-made-prisoners-homes-10697713

[the little onion]

chrisonabike wrote:

chrisonabike wrote:

BBC wrote:

Videos of reckless driving captured by the public have led to thousands of drivers being caught across West Yorkshire.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/ceq10qr52lno Is this true? Not only do they say there was “action” * taken against drivers in 65% of the cases – the equivalent of about 7,300 drivers. But some of those involve fines and points for close passes! * How often does this only involve a letter saying “we know you’ve been naughty”.

 

to be fair to West Yorkshire Police (who are rubbis and institutionally anti cyclist) they do publish the stats. Overwhelmingly, it’s an education course for the friver

 

https://www.westyorkshire.police.uk/SaferRoadsSubmissions 

[David9694]

Woodingdean couple fined

Woodingdean couple fined while renewing blue badges

https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/25693417.woodingdean-couple-fined-renewing-blue-badges/?ref=cprfa

The multiple health problems and the two parked cars in the picture – something doesn’t quite add up here – e.g. are residential spots patrolled that assiduously in an out of the way spot like this?  

Let’s see how the comments play out.

 https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/25693417.woodingdean-couple-fined-renewing-blue-badges/?ref=cprfa

[chrisonabike]

BBC wrote:

BBC wrote:

Videos of reckless driving captured by the public have led to thousands of drivers being caught across West Yorkshire.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/ceq10qr52lno

Is this true? Not only do they say there was “action” * taken against drivers in 65% of the cases – the equivalent of about 7,300 drivers. But some of those involve fines and points for close passes!

* How often does this only involve a letter saying “we know you’ve been naughty”.

[David9694]

Another plug for Dorset

Another plug for Dorset standing in for Yorkshire Shaftesbury and Gold Hill.  Largely car-free Gold Hill. Shame about the High Street. 

All together now: daa daa daa da-daa, daa-da daa-da daa …

Picturesque Dorset spot that’s like stepping in a fairytale

https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/25687502.picturesque-dorset-spot-like-stepping-fairytale/

[David9694]

What comments? Bodycam

What comments? Bodycam captures drug-driver barely able to speak during arrest

Officers received reports of a car being driven erratically and found Jack Brownless, 39, stopped at a nearby crossroads.

Brownless had swerved across the A39 and hit a wall before concerned members of the public called police.

https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/25693319.bodycam-captures-drug-driver-barely-able-speak-arrest/

[Mr Blackbird]

Not much of a deterrent in
Not much of a deterrent in the Peterborough area, as many drug drivers don’t have licences.
Confiscating their cars might be a better idea.

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