[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]

Surpise! Encouraging people

Surpise! Encouraging people to drive increases traffic!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8e91e82zneo

[Mr Blackbird]

I’ve always thought off
I’ve always thought off roading looks like great fun and excitement for real men’s men.
This photo proves exactly that.

[David9694]

I guess now we’ve had a bunch

I guess now we’ve had a bunch of rain, Facebook reels is serving me up a load of car drives through ford clips.  Some appear to make it, others not so much.  

I don’t understand these drivers – this is going to be a loss of £000s or even £0000s and all the inconvenience.  

[David9694]

Another journalist visit to

Another journalist visit to Fromes’s car-free enclave  ​

Cobble wobbles and cheese lords: we visited Somerset’s quirkiest town

We found out what’s new in Frome

https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/cobble-wobbles-cheese-lords-visited-10684800?int_source=nba

[David9694]

No safe crossing warning as

No safe crossing warning as Devon sends vital message

Hundreds of people have put their name to a petition

https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/no-safe-crossing-warning-devon-10687809

Who will foot the bill to provide a zebra crossing in Starcross?

Not sure of the pracalities of this, but the system needs to default to “safe” and inclusive, so like with the Wales 20 mph baseline, the admin and spending comes if you want faster.  

[David9694]

but my 3 meters/ 3feet of

but my 3 meters/ 3feet of pipe and trumpet 

Bid to stop ‘disastrous, abomination’ Chelsea tractors in Devon

Concerns raised over impact of gas-guzzling motors

https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/bid-stop-disastrous-abomination-chelsea-10686396?int_source=nba

Turns out to be parking charges in Dartmouth rather than say a toll booth on the M5, but go South Hams DC. 

[Rendel Harris]

The full picture also shows

The full picture also shows that it was clearly taken in traffic from the driver’s window with the motorcycle alongside, so why haven’t the police charged the driver with using her mobile at the wheel? Not being facetious, I’m sure that if a cyclist submitted footage of bad driving taken with a handheld mobile phone whilst cycling there are plenty of police forces that would issue a warning to the cyclist rather than investigate the driver. 

[David9694]

Calls for more safety

Calls for more safety measures at ‘dangerous’ A251/A252 roundabout in Challock after girl, 17, injured in crash

Talin Briggs, from Challock, had alighted a bus near The Stag pub on Tuesday, November 25, and was heading home from sixth form when she heard tyres screech. A Land Rover had crashed with a lorry and then careened into her, knocking her to the floor and dragging her for about a metre.

“I was just walking up the road, and I heard a noise, so I turned around, and the Land Rover was coming for me.

“So, I try to run, but I still get hit, and I get dragged up with it.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/RvLAoNE5zGD1s5Et5

https://www.kentonline.co.uk/ashford/news/it-could-have-been-so-much-worse-this-roundabout-is-dange-333473/

30 mph stretch, no account of any police action – the shitty, dangerous world bus passengers live in. 

For the bonus, check out the pub in the back of the picture; says the landlord, “We have seen a few accidents since we have been here.” Have you? have you really??

https://www.broadatthestag.info/home 

[David9694]

I suppose he means the lack

I suppose he means the lack of a driveway is something, along with the steps issue,  the council could magically resolve for him. I’m pleased to hear that people have called him out for his self-centred post.  There does seem to be, as he says, a lane inboard of the road that looks like it goes through to the next car-fest junction.

The parking restriction allows permit holders to park nights and Sundays – didn’t it used to go fairly quiet after 6.30 pm, or am I misremembering that? 

I think we’re here, at the eastern end of Barrett Road before it turns into Martineau Lane – https://maps.app.goo.gl/XwxeT5jg1N34bf1G9

At least hes he’s added to my little canon of pavement parking driver sayings:
I’d love to have a disabled friendly world/ I don’t work for the council

Fine I’ll block a lane then 

where am I supposed to leave it you tell me

go around 

nobody minds/ it’s not in anyone’s way 

I’ve always parked here 

[Rendel Harris]

This (from the Facebook page

This (from the Facebook page Shite Parking UK) is pretty special: they agree that you couldn’t get a wheelchair or stroller through but it’s not their fault because they don’t work for the council…

[David9694]

It’s all about risk, and who

It’s all about risk, and who suffers when the risk is realised.  A driver has to plot a clear course, and (be able to) stick to that course; things go wrong when the course turns out not to be as clear as it seemed, or they couldn’t actually see whether it was clear. 

The more they trim down the margin for error, the more likely they are to crash eventually.  But they can be lucky hundreds of times before the crash happens – the unseen road around the blind corner or summit was clear, for example – but next time it won’t be.  

And that’s before you even start on all the driver impairments, distractions and the mechanical defects.  That’s without the goading effect of car culture, a whole canon of victim blaming and the isolating, desensitising and tunnel vision effect cars have on many people, which all get stronger with speed. 

If they’re going to fast for the conditions, and this can be without the involvement of other road users, they may find themselves following a different course, possibly leaving the road, possibly hitting something or someone into the bargain. 

[David9694]

Batman – you’ve arrested

Batman – you’ve arrested Batman – of course he needs to protect his identity (as millionaire Bruce Wayne) 

 

[David9694]

Don’t you have to submit 2

Don’t you have to submit 2 minutes of unedited dashcam footage before the police will even look at a complaint about another road user? So Kent Police, you’re absolutely sure this driver didn’t so something to provoke this? 
 

[David9694]

I thought this story

I thought this story interesting because there is a pedestrian crossing, but despite this a scooter user has still been knocked down and killed by a driver.  So we have to throw money at upgrading it and/or maybe reduce the speed limit. (“They want to.control us, I’ve never heard of any accidents down there, it’s all about the money” etc) 

Is it the crossing that is “inadequate”, though? It looks a pretty typical example to me, like one of thousands. 

As always, and why is this narrative confined to obscure corners like this, we’re down to (I) decades of designing a pro car world (ii) the mitigations thereto being ineffective (iii) driver behaviour, competency  (iv) little fear of conviction or meaningful (custodial) punishment https://www.wiltshire999s.co.uk/woman-killed-pensioner-crash-avoids/.  (He had a green light, the sun was in his eyes, there was a mechanical defect, he was rushing to hospital / he needs to drive for his job and / or elderly relative who lives up a cart track, what will happen to his 2.4 children?”.)

Calls for improvements to crossing on Royal Engineer’s Way, Maidstone after death of man hit by car

On November 21, an 82-year-old on a mobility scooter had been crossing Royal Engineers Way, on the way into Maidstone near the roundabout by the town’s library.

Research was also underway by the Police and Speed Camera Partnership (PSCP) to reduce the speed limit between the Invicta Barracks roundabout and the Royal Engineers roundabout from 40mph to 30mph.

Cllr Samme added: “Whilst control lines have recently been introduced around the roundabout, a welcome development, the issue of speeding on the approach to the roundabout remains.”

https://www.kentonline.co.uk/maidstone/news/tragedy-sparks-renewed-calls-for-safety-upgrades-to-inadequ-333476/

[ChrisA]

I’m not sure the motor

I’m not sure the motor industry helps these people.  Cars are quieter, more comfortable, faster, “safer”, have multiple active safety systems, but allow the driver limited vision and lots of toys to play with.

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