[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]

End of free parking branded

End of free parking branded ‘pantomime’ in council row

Free parking in council car parks in the two towns could end in October

final paragraph, once all the unfortunate souls with the means to run a car have whined about their lot: 

Ms Rigby said: “A lot of people who are very low income have no vehicle whatsoever and they are breathing in other people’s pollution. I think it’s fair that we protect those people as well.”

https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/local-news/end-free-parking-branded-pantomime-9188435

[David9694]

Motorists in Falmouth blasted

Motorists in Falmouth blasted by firefighters for blocking the road with parked cars

Every second counts, and when fire engines struggle to pass through a road due to parked cars there could be dire consequences

https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/motorists-falmouth-blasted-firefighters-blocking-9187479

[David9694]

Cinema customer fined after

Cinema customer fined after watching Dune 2 says ‘stinks of extortion’

Dune 2 comes in at just shy of three hours long

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/cinema-customer-fined-after-watching-28879397

The Comments are better than the story itself.

my favourite was 

incider18 HRS AGO

It’s no fun doing anything regarding driving anymore.

Everyone is out to fleece you out of your hard earned.

All in the government’s interest of getting people out of their vehicles and onto public transport.

Good luck with that.

[The Larger Cyclist]

Steve K wrote:

brooksby wrote:

[quote=Jogle][b]Dinas Powys man loses home after spending thousands on novelty private number plate[/b] This might be more “Non-Driver and his Problem” but I’d summarise it as “man thought a numberplate was worth a lot more than other people and so now wants his money back as his investment wasn’t an investment”. https://www.itv.com/news/wales/2024-03-24/man-loses-home-after-spending-thousands-on-novelty-private-number-plate%5B/quote%5D

Who would spend £30,000 on a numberplate ‘as an investment’?  When you throw in the bit where apparently he doesn’t even use the numberplate – its in a storage unit with the rest of his possessions after he lost his house, apparently – it certainly seems that he needs some lessons in fiscal management…

https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/cars/article-12234361/Personalised-number-plates-seen-major-investment-opportunity.html

This is Money – part of the Daily Fail family….not sure I’d believe anything for them

[wtjs]

Jon Kirkbright, 45, founder

Jon Kirkbright, 45, founder of Plate Hunter, says the value of private plates have rocketed in recent years

I refer to Mandy Rice-Davies for the reply to this.

[Steve K]

brooksby wrote:

[quote=Jogle][b]Dinas Powys man loses home after spending thousands on novelty private number plate[/b] This might be more “Non-Driver and his Problem” but I’d summarise it as “man thought a numberplate was worth a lot more than other people and so now wants his money back as his investment wasn’t an investment”. https://www.itv.com/news/wales/2024-03-24/man-loses-home-after-spending-thousands-on-novelty-private-number-plate%5B/quote%5D

Who would spend £30,000 on a numberplate ‘as an investment’?  When you throw in the bit where apparently he doesn’t even use the numberplate – its in a storage unit with the rest of his possessions after he lost his house, apparently – it certainly seems that he needs some lessons in fiscal management…

https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/cars/article-12234361/Personalised-number-plates-seen-major-investment-opportunity.html

[Hirsute]

”  Today I met a true

”  Today I met a true @Wankpanzer ! Who parked his Range Rover blocking the TFL bus route 127. I guided the bus driver to navigate through. Listen to the Wankpanzer driver’s arrogance!  “

youtu.be/6LE5eMyGWNM

[perce]

Sounds like he had more money

Sounds like he had more money than sense. And still has, apparently.

[brooksby]

Jogle wrote:

[quote=Jogle][b]Dinas Powys man loses home after spending thousands on novelty private number plate[/b] This might be more “Non-Driver and his Problem” but I’d summarise it as “man thought a numberplate was worth a lot more than other people and so now wants his money back as his investment wasn’t an investment”. https://www.itv.com/news/wales/2024-03-24/man-loses-home-after-spending-thousands-on-novelty-private-number-plate%5B/quote%5D

Who would spend £30,000 on a numberplate ‘as an investment’?  When you throw in the bit where apparently he doesn’t even use the numberplate – its in a storage unit with the rest of his possessions after he lost his house, apparently – it certainly seems that he needs some lessons in fiscal management…

[Jogle]

Dinas Powys man loses home
[b]Dinas Powys man loses home after spending thousands on novelty private number plate[/b]

This might be more “Non-Driver and his Problem” but I’d summarise it as “man thought a numberplate was worth a lot more than other people and so now wants his money back as his investment wasn’t an investment”.

https://www.itv.com/news/wales/2024-03-24/man-loses-home-after-spending-thousands-on-novelty-private-number-plate

[chrisonabike]

Welcome to the “cycle path”!

Running Horse Roundabout – welcome to the “cycle path”!

World-beating.  It’s just because UK cyclists are entitled types and ingrates – plus “but no-one actually wants to cycle” – that this isn’t like Groningen already.  It’s even got separate pedestrian and cycling infra according to the sign, all in about a metre of overgrown space!

[chrisonabike]

Probably just the newspaper

RE: Running Horse Roundabout – Probably just the newspaper but it seems we can’t use the word “Dutch” / “NL” without saying something incorrect in the same sentence.  “Colour-coded routes”?  Here’s a real one…  Here’s a page with some more about them (halfway down – maybe they just googled this page and saw the diagram and thought “that’s how it works”?).

Turbo roundabouts are inherently “bicycle exclusive” infra – almost as much as motorways.  You have to provide separate safe cycling and walking infra (if you need a turbo roundabout automotive flows are going to be incompatible with traffic lights).

Looking at this roundabout on the map it looks like there would be no cycling there unless you were insane (basically part of motorway support infra) and indeed no need for cycling.

But… streetview even shows a cyclist, and there are some footways (!) repurposed as “cycle infra”.  There is a “cycle route” parallel to it which exits onto it although again it’s not entirely clear why you want to.

Anyway, just “UK”.  Meanwhile, in the real NL, building major roads doesn’t have to be a barrier to access for non-motorised transport…

[brooksby]

David9694 wrote:

One more paint job will fix it. A shame they aren’t importing more ideas from The Netherlands.  Still more money being thrown at drivers. 

Running Horse Roundabout on A229 Blue Bell Hill, Maidstone, to be turned into ‘turbo roundabout’

this style of road junction is designed to prevent drivers from switching lanes by using colour-coded routes. This means motorists will instead pick their chosen exit before entering the roundabout and follow the correct lane.

The redesign is said to cost Kent County Council around £650,000 and has been put forward in hopes of reducing crashes on the junction as well as improving lane discipline by users.

Existing informal cycling and pedestrian crossing points will be retained (???)

https://www.kentonline.co.uk/maidstone/news/six-figure-redesign-to-turn-junction-into-turbo-roundabout-303862/

They’ll leave the informal crossing points? Couldn’t they take this opportunity to put in some formal crossing points??

[David9694]

Why motorists on the M20 are

Why motorists on the M20 are getting a taste of the M2 with speed limits and lane closures

Is it just me, or is the M2 one of the nation’s most depressing motorways?

https://www.kentonline.co.uk/news/opinion/is-this-the-worst-motorway-in-the-country-303859/

which got me to imagining that post-car world and a group of enthusiasts saving some unwanted stretch of motorway, that people write books about, and offering family days out in their fleet of preserved Ford Mondeos. 

[David9694]

One more paint job will fix

One more paint job will fix it. A shame they aren’t importing more ideas from The Netherlands.  Still more money being thrown at drivers. 

Running Horse Roundabout on A229 Blue Bell Hill, Maidstone, to be turned into ‘turbo roundabout’

this style of road junction is designed to prevent drivers from switching lanes by using colour-coded routes. This means motorists will instead pick their chosen exit before entering the roundabout and follow the correct lane.

The redesign is said to cost Kent County Council around £650,000 and has been put forward in hopes of reducing crashes on the junction as well as improving lane discipline by users.

Existing informal cycling and pedestrian crossing points will be retained (???)

https://www.kentonline.co.uk/maidstone/news/six-figure-redesign-to-turn-junction-into-turbo-roundabout-303862/

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