[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]

oh no! It’s going to get

oh no! It’s going to get worse:

Petrol and diesel owners to be hit hardest by new car tax rates

Vehicle Excise Duty (VED) is set to increase from April 1 ?

https://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/news/motoring/petrol-diesel-owners-hit-hardest-9112688

 

[brooksby]

Hirsute wrote:

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Reminds me of that scene in the first Despicable Me film, with the woman in a compact, then a bloke in (IIRC) a SUV bullying her, then Gru in his silver supervillain car comes along 😉

[DaiHoss]

https://www.kentonline.co.uk

https://www.kentonline.co.uk/malling/news/empty-car-park-on-one-side-of-the-road-parking-chaos-on-t-301912/

How dare they [checks notes] stop people parking on their own land

[David9694]

New 20mph signs in Herne Bay

New 20mph signs in Herne Bay spray-painted by vandals amid residents’ rage over road scheme

https://www.kentonline.co.uk/herne-bay/news/20mph-signs-sabotaged-amid-residents-rage-over-new-road-sch-302106/

[Hirsute]

Barratt is worried about his

Barratt is worried about his family

Do not put your family in a small car.

Yesterday, my wife was driving my son to school and an oncoming delivery truck crossed the center lane and hit her head on — the driver had a seizure was going 40 mph. I am so thankful they are okay (and the other driver is too) and that we chose to buy a large vehicle.

“I am glad your family is ok. Wouldn’t it be safer if everyone drove smaller cars?”

Not realistic so no interest in playing that game

” What is this some SUV cold war arms race? “I’m going to buy a car even bigger than yours!”  “

After that is escalated

“When we had our third child I bought a Yukon. It’s very safe and built like a tank. “

“Who needs an SUV when you can buy an ICV?! My children travel safely in a Stryker Infantry Carrier Vehicle. If the Stryker’s 14.55mm thick steel plates don’t offer enough protection an optional weapons station can obliterate traffic threats.”

“”When we had our third child I bought an M1 Abrams. It’s very safe and built like a tank. We always had larger SUVs like Yukons which have no chance against mines and Anti Tank artillery. The lives of my children are too important to risk to another driver.”

“When we had our third child we bought a Komatsu 930E. It’s very safe and bigger than both a tank and a F750. My children are very safe. Pedestrians can be wiped off the wheels fairly easily.”

“When we had our third child we bought a Crawler-transporter. It’s very safe and bigger than either a tank, a F750 or a Komatsu 930E. My children are very safe. At a top speed of 1.6km/h, pedestrians have plenty of time to walk out of its way.”

“When we had our third child we bought a star destroyer. It’s very safe and is very capable of destroying and earth tank or vehicle. My children are very safe. Pedestrians tend to run away in a state of alarm and fear so we no longer need to consider them at all.”

 

One person recommended a tank as it has better visibility

 

[Jogle]

A27 closed near Chichester
[b]A27 closed near Chichester after truck rolls into ditch[/b]

Something needs to be done about these spontaneously turtling cars and lorries. Won’t somebody think of the children?!

https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/24127644.a27-closed-near-chichester-truck-rolls-ditch/

[David9694]

Drivers and their problems 

Drivers and their problems 

this time it’s “how about some community spirit?”

https://www.kentonline.co.uk/malling/news/empty-car-park-on-one-side-of-the-road-parking-chaos-on-t-301912/

[David9694]

talking of which 

talking of which 

Exact RideLondon 2024 route through Essex confirmed including slight change

https://www.essexlive.news/news/essex-news/exact-ridelondon-2024-route-through-9104372

EDIT – just had a quick look at Essex Live Facebook – this story wasn’t on there (a mercy, I guess – I’ve never ventured onto Nextdoor) , but one about the rate of car crashes in Essex was. 

Apparently the council need to fix the roads, people need to stop using mobile phones, but overpopulation came out as a big factor. 

[David9694]

It’s in Magna Carta innit 

It’s in Magna Carta innit 

We furth’r prayeth yond nay freeman shalt beest did preventeth from leaving his cart, ox horse n’r any mann’r of thing yond may beest his outside his house in the road.

 

[hawkinspeter]

David9694 wrote:

Frome roads to be closed as schools to go car-free for children and parents

Frome is launching a School Streets trial to improve the safety and wellbeing of its young residents

https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/frome-roads-closed-schools-go-9096263

Great, but don’t let this become an obstacle to a more extensive  roll-out of 20 mph. “It’s OK outside schools” is a containment strategy by drivers. 

Yeah, it’s fine to run over kids if they’re not too close to a school

[David9694]

Frome roads to be closed as

Frome roads to be closed as schools to go car-free for children and parents

Frome is launching a School Streets trial to improve the safety and wellbeing of its young residents

https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/frome-roads-closed-schools-go-9096263

Great, but don’t let this become an obstacle to a more extensive  roll-out of 20 mph. “It’s OK outside schools” is a containment strategy by drivers. 

[brooksby]

Jogle wrote:

[quote=Jogle][b]’Crazy car parking permit rules’ means Banbury motorist can’t park outside his home[/b] Am I missing something? They can’t get two parking permits because both cars are registered to the husband and the leased car can only be registered in the husband’s name. The council has said that they can have a second permit if they register one car in the wife’s name. The husband says that they can’t do that because they can’t change the register keeper of the leased car. The car that doesn’t have a permit is the car which is not leased. Surely the answer is to change the registered keeper on the non-leased car, get a second permit, park outside your home and not go to the newspaper? https://www.banburyguardian.co.uk/news/transport/crazy-car-parking-permit-rules-means-banbury-motorist-cant-park-outside-his-home-4521316%5B/quote%5D

Dont you be coming on ‘ere with yer “common sense”! 😉

People do get very weird about being able to park in the public-not-private space outside their own home, don’t they? Like people who own two or more cars (or two cars plus a commercial van that probably ought to stored at the depot) and yet move into a flat with only one designated parking space and complain about the lack of parking…

[Jogle]

‘Crazy car parking permit
[b]’Crazy car parking permit rules’ means Banbury motorist can’t park outside his home[/b]

Am I missing something? They can’t get two parking permits because both cars are registered to the husband and the leased car can only be registered in the husband’s name. The council has said that they can have a second permit if they register one car in the wife’s name. The husband says that they can’t do that because they can’t change the register keeper of the leased car. The car that doesn’t have a permit is the car which is not leased. Surely the answer is to change the registered keeper on the non-leased car, get a second permit, park outside your home and not go to the newspaper?

https://www.banburyguardian.co.uk/news/transport/crazy-car-parking-permit-rules-means-banbury-motorist-cant-park-outside-his-home-4521316

[polainm]

It’s the threat of AI in cars

It’s the threat of AI in cars obviously. So many of these machines being reported as causing severe harm and death, presumably while the driver is somewhere else?

Mind you, clearly policing and media editors are also on a different planet…

Rendel Harris wrote:

Even by usual shoddy reporting standards, this is special: stupid boy, breaking his legs!

https://www.itv.com/news/tyne-tees/2024-02-13/boy-12-breaks-both-legs-in-crash-with-car-while-cycling?fbclid=IwAR3qN4KlZun_pkDyzo8eLSRFWUt3Ks8k6bH6MN0uYGtbZISCbf75Qk8PIK0

[David9694]

drivers are such snowflakes

drivers are such snowflakes when the threat, however minuscule, is against them – suck it up, guys and welcome to cyclists’ world.  

Man questions Winchester Golf Academy over stray balls on the A34

https://www.hampshirechronicle.co.uk/news/24125735.man-questions-winchester-golf-academy-stray-balls-a34/

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