Drivers and their problems

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    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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    David9694

    Drivers oppose to plan to

    Drivers oppose to plan to introduce charges at Borrow Pit car park in Walmer

    Those who use the car park now fear charging people will only drive visitors away and make parking harder on nearby roads outside people’s homes.

    (thanks for the threat, guys)

    https://www.kentonline.co.uk/deal/news/i-wouldn-t-park-here-if-i-had-to-pay-it-should-stay-free-307413/

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    bensynnock

    Netley Abbey isn’t really
    Netley Abbey isn’t really just around the corner from that Tesco.

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    Hirsute

    Royal Parks Police

    Royal Parks Police

    Worst driving of the day award goes to the driver of this vehicle found cruising along the horse track in #RichmondPark Thankfully no horse riders were affected [?] A fine will be sent to him in the post

    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GOhVlo6WAAAEHGy?format=jpg&name=small

    Driver was avoiding speeding cyclists, so should be let off.

    #1004495
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    David9694

    Bath street ‘freed from the

    Bath street ‘freed from the tyranny of the motor vehicle’ by LTN, say locals

    ‘People can linger on the pavement without fear of losing their head to debris bouncing off a speeding flatbed truck — and this very nearly did happen.’

    https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/bath-street-freed-tyranny-motor-9305147

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    David9694

    List of cars banned from

    List of cars banned from Devon council car parks includes Audi, BMW and Kia

    https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/list-cars-banned-devon-council-9303352

    sorry, no, that’s not the reason 

    South Hampshire?? 

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    David9694

    Lives “around the corner”,

    Lives “around the corner”, but visited twice by car in one day.  He also needs to stick with just the one story – “you can’t prove that’s my car” exiting after visit #2 ain’t helping. 

    Netley Abbey pensioner vows not to pay Tesco parking fine

    https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/24341843.netley-abbey-pensioner-vows-not-pay-tesco-parking-fine/

    https://cdn.road.cc/wp-content/uploads/roadcc/IMG_5712.jpeg

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    David9694

    ‘Cut off’ Surrey town

    ‘Cut off’ Surrey town ‘becomes an island’ after road closures turn three minute journey into one hour

    A Surrey mum has the traffic chaos is adding stress to children’s GCSE exam

    Ellen Watkins, who has lived in Cobham for 30 years, said the onslaught of traffic chaos is making the much-loved town an unpleasant place to live. The mother of three even considered renting a property near her son’s school last year, so he could finish his A Levels without the stress of being late to his exams.

    She drives a minibus of students from Cobham to the Chertsey school and said that even to get from Cobham High Street to the A3 takes around 40 minutes, instead of three.

    https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/surrey-news/cut-off-surrey-town-becomes-29207257
     

    edit: School o’clock screengrab – not seeing a problem outbound from Cobham? 

    https://cdn.road.cc/wp-content/uploads/roadcc/IMG_5709.png

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    wtjs

    It’s a disgrace! Having to

    It’s a disgrace! Having to drive around in a vehicle FG07 OHF with MOT failed a month ago for multiple serious safety defects, and towing a trailer with a different and false plate W709 ANW. However, on the brighter side, this is Lancashire where the police and PCC don’t care about road safety or driving offences

    https://cdn.road.cc/wp-content/uploads/roadcc/FG07OHF-NoMOTFailedMOT-FalseTrailerPlate-23May24.jpg

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    David9694

    Drivers and the problems 

    Drivers and their problems 

    Like many parents to have taken on the unpaid role as their children’s taxi service in the last 12 months, never have we clocked-up so many miles motoring across the south for one sporting fixture or another.

    https://www.kentonline.co.uk/news/opinion/road-closures-are-up-200-and-i-feel-like-i-encountered-eve-307062/

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    David9694

    Did he write it so the

    Did he write it so the signage could be correct? 

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    hawkinspeter
    Hirsute wrote:
    There’s not a lot to do in Bristol in the evening.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjmmj2k3n3no

    A man who has written a 150 page report into a controversial bus gate has said the traffic measure is “unlawful” and “defective”.

    “This one is not normal. There is something wrong with the design.”

    umm

    https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/afa1/live/f8c45800-16ba-11ef-82b1-cd7f9b279722.png.webp

    Sounds like he’s found a lot of technical issues with the signage. On the one hand, I think signs and road designs should be consistent between various councils and areas, but on the other hand, Cumberland Rd is much nicer without having a long queue of traffic all the time. As the Chocolate Path was closed/collapsed, then Cumberland Road is the alternative route, though personally I usually go the other side of the river (Coronation Road with the famously bad shared usage that has massive trees blocking the cycle side) and tangle with traffic.

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    essexian
    chrisonabike wrote:
      And we know that in practice people en-mass aren’t great at driving a car AND reading…

    Is that why I see loads practicing reading on their phones while driving along?

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    essexian
    Hirsute wrote:
    “This one is not normal. There is something wrong with the design.

    I take it this comment concerns the person who wrote the “report”?

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    David9694

    Jacob Rees-Mogg calls Bath

    Jacob Rees-Mogg calls Bath ‘anti-car’ in clash with city’s MP over LTNs

    “It is time to back freedom and back the motorist.”



    https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/jacob-rees-mogg-calls-bath-9301485

    Won’t it be nice when it’s JR-M, nobody/ ex-MP, or I may have to settle for opposition MP.

     

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    David9694

    This nonsense of “everything

    This nonsense of “everything has to be 100% perfect or we’ll cry foul” and get let off needs to end. 

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