[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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[brooksby]

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He added: “I use Books on the Hill. It’s where I buy my books to go on holiday. And sometimes I can’t park, therefore I go off to Clifton or I go off to Cribbs.”

How often does Cllr Canniford go on holiday?  How much of an imposition would it be for him to pay to park on that occasion?

Seems to me that charging for parking might actually help the traders of Hill Road: people will park, do the things they need to do, then move on, leaving a free space (instead of finding a parking space there, thanking the Gods of Parking and then leaving their car there while they go for a nice long walk all around the town…).

[hawkinspeter]

It’s a cartastrophe!

It’s a cartastrophe!

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/trojan-tax-parking-charges-cause-9709032

Townsfolk from Clevedon and Portishead have urged North Somerset Council to avoid a “catastrophe” by ditching its plans to end free parking in the towns.

The council’s executive had voted in October to end free parking in a host of locations across both towns and Nailsea. But the plans were “called in” to a council scrutiny panel by councillors Tim Snaden (Portishead North, Portishead Independent) and Luke Smith (Clevedon West, Conservative) who warned the decision had been “troubling.”

Nine people from Clevedon and Portishead spoke at the scrutiny panel meeting on November 11, warning that the charges could cause a “catastrophe” for independent shops on Clevedon ’s Hill Road and would mean that people in Portishead would have to pay to drive to the Lake Grounds.

[David9694]

And on it goes 

And on it goes 

He said: “They forgot about us and that’s the issue I have. They have completely ignored that we live here.”

https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/people-bath-street-closed-after-9700547

[David9694]

They shall not pass: 

They shall not pass: 

Dartford council withdraws parking tickets issued at Acacia car park during Remembrance Day parade

” …the council says its enforcement team witnessed “incredibly dangerous” parking which it says had the potential to impact emergency plans should something have happened at a big event such as the parade.”

https://www.kentonline.co.uk/dartford/news/fines-dished-out-to-motorists-parked-dangerously-during-re-315714

[stonojnr]

Nissan ploughs through
Nissan ploughs through Remembrance Day service in Halvergate…

https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/24714852.nissan-ploughs-remembrance-day-service-halvergate/

[chrisonabike]

Rendel Harris wrote:

Rendel Harris wrote:

Hmm…under “Special Reasons” (Section 6/3) it says:

…

I mean it seems silly to complain in detail when we’re firmly in the territory in the UK of “you will have to live with this the rest of your life / nothing I can do will bring them back (so I will do nothing)” and “these things happen, poor drivers traumatised by innocently killing people”
… BUT this sounds like a charter for eg. “can’t touch me, I’m neurodivergent”?

I guess this is where a more legalistic approach to road safety is likely to fall down (although this is also “choices”…). Nothing to stop stuff like “we cannot fairly punish them (we acknowledge they maybe had reduced agency) BUT at the same time we can’t simply stop them driving (they have full agency on a good day AND perhaps they ‘have to drive’ to access support for their condition”)?

Essentially a riff on the old “incompetence paradox”?

[Rendel Harris]

Hmm…under “Special Reasons”

Hmm…under “Special Reasons” (Section 6/3) it says:

Special reasons

The period of disqualification may be reduced or avoided if there are special reasons. These must relate to the offence; circumstances peculiar to the offender cannot constitute special reasons. To constitute a special reason, a matter must:

• be a mitigating or extenuating circumstance;
• not amount in law to a defence to the charge;
• be directly connected with the commission of the offence;
• be one which the court ought properly to take into consideration when imposing sentence.

[Bungle_52]

Thanks for the info. I still

Thanks for the info. I still can’t find anything on the length of the ban, if he was banned, but I did find this interestng discussion on the matter.

https://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/ashley-hulme-intentionally-mows-down-children-with-car-and-avoids-prison/

[brooksby]

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Along with the bollards, a new traffic island was installed on Sion Hill (East). There is now no right turn from Cavendish Road onto Sion Hill (East). But on Wednesday, one council bin lorry had to drive across the wrong side of the traffic island to make this right turn.

I’m sure that somethings wrong here, but I don’t think that it’s the new traffic island…

 

[andystow]

hawkinspeter wrote:

Winifred’s Lane bollards

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/local-news/watch-24-hours-chaos-after-9700693

They really should put up a sign like the sign that they put up.

[chrisonabike]

More notice needed for

David9694 wrote:

More notice needed for Remembrance Sunday road closures

To be fair the Germans didn’t give everyone much notice they were done with the war in November. Could have saved everyone tooling up for the Big Push of spring 1919 if they had…

[Hirsute]

You were only supposed to
You were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off.
https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/24712386.van-carrying-fireworks-explodes-outside-golfclub-blandford/

(Stolen from the comments)

[David9694]

Windshield bias and cars put

Windshield bias and cars put together in Kent – result? 

Opinion: Maidstone’s roads let it down and give those passing through a poor impression of Kent’s county town

It needs not just a tweak here or there, but, ideally, a pull-it-all-down-and-have another-go approach.

There is no unity to the place – buildings from uninspiring eras jostle against office blocks which must have looked pretty awful the day they were built, let alone 40 or 50 years later. It’s far from alone in this problem, but the roads – the bulk of which are one-way – seem to showcase to those passing through the higgledy-piggledy nature of it all.

https://www.kentonline.co.uk/news/opinion/the-town-needs-a-pulling-down-and-having-another-go-at-it-a-315597/

[hawkinspeter]

Winifred’s Lane bollards

Winifred’s Lane bollards

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/local-news/watch-24-hours-chaos-after-9700693

[mdavidford]

Maybe they just forgot…

Maybe they just forgot…

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