[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]

How much space has to be

How much space has to be turned over to cars? Here’s an example of where the NT should stop privileging cars. The car parking it does have should be for essential (e.g. blue badge) use only. Anything else should require to be booked and be expensive. Access should be by boat, bike and bus only. 

UPDATE: planning permission refused 

https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/cornwall-planning-trelissick-car-park-9269312

Uproar over National Trust Trelissick plans as locals fear ‘chaos’ 

King Harry Ferry and Enterprise Boats are among those concerned about plans to put a new car park on ancient woodland and the effects it will have on the river crossing

https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/national-trust-car-park-plan-9260735

[David9694]

Drivers and their problems

Drivers and their problems

Devon couple says £45k Porsche is a ‘lethal weapon’

Porsche says they have offered the couple £10,500 to “allow them to step away from the vehicle”

A few weeks later, Nick says there were two more instances of power failure. He says there was even one occasion where they “drifted across a zebra crossing” with no way of stopping the car.

“About six weeks after we got it back, my wife had two instances of total power failure. On the first occasion, she was on her own and it literally drove straight across the road because she had no way of steering it or braking.

https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/devon-couple-says-45k-porsche-9255469

New driver left stranded after car stuck in ‘8 inch deep pothole’

She said: “There was a van driving in the middle of Burnetts Lane and the driver would not budge over so I could pass the pothole.

https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/24304031.new-driver-left-stranded-car-stuck-8-inch-deep-pothole/

 

[andystow]

Eton Rifle wrote:

Eton Rifle wrote:

Christ, just what the fuck is it with these angry old men. I’m old now and more mellow that I’ve ever been.

HRT?

(hormone replacement therapy / legal-ish testosterone)

[Eton Rifle]

ktache wrote:
[quote=ktache]Look at the angry man.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/06/bournemouth-road-rage-incident-guilty%5B/quote%5D
Christ, just what the fuck is it with these angry old men. I’m old now and more mellow that I’ve ever been.

[andystow]

This is perfect!

This is perfect!

Nantucket Is Already Sick Of Its New Tesla Cybertruck Owner.

 

[David9694]

There’s a 10 minute motion in

There’s a 10 minute motion in Parliament today promoting graduated driving licencing for new drivers which is something championed by Brake. I hope it gets a favourable response. 

It has for me a bit of a ring of giving older generations a free pass.  I get that the stats support this idea, but that’ll be “it” for road safety, won’t it? 

1. MOTOR VEHICLES (DRIVING LICENCES) (NEW DRIVERS): TEN MINUTE RULE MOTION

Up to 20 minutes (Standing Order No. 23)

Kim Leadbeater
That leave be given to bring in a Bill to make provision about licences issued to new drivers for the period of six months after the issuing of the licence, for the purpose of increasing safety for road users; and for connected purposes.

https://commonsbusiness.parliament.uk/Document/87325/Html?subType=Standard#_idTextAnchor002

https://www.brake.org.uk/how-we-help/national-campaigns/the-change-we-want/drivers/young-drivers-and-gdl

[David9694]

Traders fear future at

Traders fear future at Rainham Shopping Centre after car parking charge hike sees drop in footfall

https://www.kentonline.co.uk/medway/news/we-re-becoming-a-ghost-town-traders-blast-car-parking-cha-306127/

well, guys yes I suppose you could say your fortunes are affected by the fact that people who have gone to the expense of owning and running a car can’t or won’t pay £2.30 to park it in Rainham for a couple or hours. 

or… 

(Sorry about the Daily Express Link)

Cost-of-living crisis sees desperate Britons ditch summer favourites to save cash
Some traditional favourites were the first to be sacrificed when people were looking to do away with non-essentials.

https://www.express.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/1894769/cost-of-living-crisis-save-cash

this FT link is paywalled, but the article opened once for me: 

https://www.ft.com/content/e6d36b04-5876-4d12-a843-0987fe01e4d0

[David9694]

more wildlife mayhem 

more wildlife mayhem 

https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/24302508.poole-swan-causes-crash-leading-vauxhall-fire/

[David9694]

If you’ve got the significant

If you’ve got the significant wodges of cash needed to pay your VED, take out insurance, pay your garage bills, it’s hard to see any good reason why you haven’t got a bank account.

If the real issue is the unfathomable complexity of apps and card payments then I’m struggling to see how you can safe to drive. 

[Hirsute]

Cannon Hill Park today after

Cannon Hill Park today after members of the public found an emergency access gate open & took the opportunity to drive into, around, & park in the park itself. Police attended but couldn’t do anything due to their being “too many cars”

Cannon Hill Park today after members of the public found an emergency access gate open & took the opportunity to drive into, around, & park in the park itself.

Police attended but couldn’t do anything due to their being “too many cars” 🤦‍♂️@YPLAC @badlyparkedbrum @for_birmingham pic.twitter.com/dC02iVVj43

— NoseleyVillage (@NoseleyVillage) May 6, 2024

[Hirsute]

Cash meters get targeted, the

Cash meters get targeted, the cash stolen and the machine wrecked. This is not cheap and leads to the removal of machines.

Hard to believe anyone with a car does not have a bank account or are they catering for the ones with no licence, insurance, ved?

[David9694]

Calls made to bring back cash

Calls made to bring back cash payments to car parks

Green councillor Joe Salmon, who suggested the changes, said: “There are a lot of people who are impacted by this and don’t have access to regular banking services and that’s not just a tiny unimportant minority of people. 

“There are a significant number of people in this country who simply don’t have access to a type of banking services that give them the debit cards that lots of us are used to.

“It bothered me when we brought this up at full council before that since then we have not been able to produce a black and white justification of why we have moved to cashless.” 

https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/24291089.calls-made-bring-back-cash-payments-car-parks/

Great that the Greens have had such success in the local elections, but setting yourself up as some kind of micro-socialist isn’t quite what I was expecting.  

If anyone is interested, cash handling is a bind and an overhead.  If you’ve got parking meters, someone has to visit them daily and take the cash back to the office to be sorted and eventually banked. 

[pockstone]

Let’s not be too hard on the
“Cranham Drive motorhome: dad clears drive of all vans”:
Let’s not be too hard on the fellow, maybe he was using it as bike shed.

[David9694]

Mrs. Krabappel and Principal

Mrs. Krabappel and Principal Skinner were in the closet making babies and I saw one of the babies and the baby looked at me

Man who caused A4 Wiltshire crash ‘distracted by wildlife’

Representing himself at Swindon Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday, May 1 he pleaded guilty to the offence. 

He said: “I was driving in the road and I was distracted by wildlife so I swerved and then got my bearings together.

“Then when I looked ahead and saw the stationary car I put my brakes on but it was too late.

“I was driving a dodgy van from work and I’ve now lost my job and I’m unemployed. I have a lot of people dependent on me.”

https://www.gazetteandherald.co.uk/news/24291530.man-caused-a4-wiltshire-crash-distracted-wildlife/

[ktache]

Look at the angry man.
Look at the angry man.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/06/bournemouth-road-rage-incident-guilty

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