[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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[chrisonabike]

BBC R4 just had a program
BBC R4 just had a program about roadworks ( EDIT “Highways to hell” – https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002pdy9 ) – caught the start and while there was consideration of some complexities * the idea that everyone choosing to drive everywhere might have an impact seemed to be missing. (Of course – where there are lorries and buses then the damage is due to them to a fourth approximation … but that doesn’t mean that normally heavy cars and vans do no damage).

* They were looking at utilities, how they’re coordinated (not) with local authorities and others, which was welcome. Also the fact that lots of our “works” is because we’re playing catch-up where we’ve had long-term under-investment. Of course that is also to do with how we’ve set up funding and markets. Which ultimately comes back to what customers were prepared to pay for, via government decisions about what tax pays for and how to set up markets where they want private industry to run utilities…

[Mr Blackbird]

Proof, if it was ever needed,
Proof, if it was ever needed, that this section of road should have been upgraded to motorway decades ago.
Service stations with ample parking, fast food outlets and a Welsh Mountain Experience Theme park would almost certainly have followed.
A Brent Cross style shopping mall could have been built at Bets-Y-Coed.
Missed opportunities indeed.

[chrisonabike]

David9694 wrote:

David9694 wrote:

“This is not the first time this vehicle has been reported in doing so and Kent Police are now investigating the owner of this vehicle.

So unfair they’re investigating the owner when clearly this vehicle just wants to exercise by driving about on the sand (more than once). And had the simple misfortune to get stuck. What has it got to do with the owner and why do the police think it’s their business? #ukjustlikenorthkorea

[David9694]

Car gets stuck in mud whilst

Car gets stuck in mud whilst driving over ‘protected’ Romney Sands

The spokesperson added: “We must point out the Dunes at Greatstone in which this vehicle drove over to get to the beach, are protected and provide a unique habitat for plants and animals.

“Driving over these dunes and damaging them constitutes a criminal offence.

“This is not the first time this vehicle has been reported in doing so and Kent Police are now investigating the owner of this vehicle.

https://www.itv.com/news/meridian/2026-01-02/car-gets-stuck-in-mud-whilst-driving-over-protected-romney-sands?

So driving across the sands is illegal – a bit like driving on the pavement to “legally” park on it?

[David9694]

Families heartbroken after

Families heartbroken after vehicle smashes into graves at Rye cemetery leaving headstones damaged

https://www.itv.com/news/meridian/2026-01-02/families-left-heartbroken-after-vehicle-smashes-into-graves-at-cemetery?

[David9694]

“what about the ambulances?”

“what about the ambulances?”

‘Crazy’ Eryri parking sparks police warning due to Pen-y-pass congestion

Police say people parking has reduced route to single carriageway at time when the road is icy

https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/crazy-eryri-parking-sparks-police-33160995

[David9694]

Mr Blackbird wrote:

Mr Blackbird wrote:

More needs to be done to make beaches and moorland bogs more car-friendly. It’s what we pay our road tax for.

see also: the New Forest. Coming up this spring : we are putting up our three springer spaniels for adoption as we cannot afford to pay to park to walk them in the New Forest”

[chrisonabike]

bensynnock wrote:

bensynnock wrote:

They might as well have published his address because when you’re a director of a limited company which is registered with companies house it’s a matter of public record.

Yes and no. You are required to provide a home address to Companies House but what is listed on the register accessible to the public is a “service address” you provide. That can be and usually is different eg. typically the address of the company (or one of its offices). In some circumstances you can further apply for more protection of your actual address details (if eg. you have been threatened etc).

[David9694]

bensynnock wrote:

bensynnock wrote:

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Julian Tominey

Address supplied

https://www.advertiserandtimes.co.uk/people/readers-letters-anarchy-of-road-closures-9447762/

They might as well have published his address because when you’re a director of a limited company which is registered with companies house it’s a matter of public record. He’s got a nice house, but he should learn to use the internet as the road closures he’s mentioned are listed on the HCC website. https://www.hants.gov.uk/community/publicnotices?Q=New+milton&search=yes%5B/quote%5D

Maybe HCC only list the works that don’t benefit ? drivers?  

[bensynnock]

David9694 wrote:

David9694 wrote:

Julian Tominey

Address supplied

https://www.advertiserandtimes.co.uk/people/readers-letters-anarchy-of-road-closures-9447762/

They might as well have published his address because when you’re a director of a limited company which is registered with companies house it’s a matter of public record. He’s got a nice house, but he should learn to use the internet as the road closures he’s mentioned are listed on the HCC website.

https://www.hants.gov.uk/community/publicnotices?Q=New+milton&search=yes

[chrisonabike]

Mr Blackbird wrote:

Mr Blackbird wrote:

More needs to be done to make beaches and moorland bogs more car-friendly. It’s what we pay our road tax for.

It’s discrimination. What about disabled people who can’t walk onto the beach? What about the emergency services?

Right: it’s a missed opportunity to facilitate innovation by private industry – what about the ice cream sellers who can’t drive onto the beach?

Left: why should the beaches be the preserve of the rich in their expensive off-road vehicles? It’s our beach not theirs! Let’s tarmac the beach to let the common man drive there!

[David9694]

It’s as though they want cars

It’s as though they want cars to drive on the beach so they can get rich charging you £200 to tow you off and that’s before they’ve fined you each time you put a toe above 20 mph all the way from Welshpool. I mean look at those puny signs, no-one’s going to see that are they and half of it’s in Welsh. 

[Mr Blackbird]

More needs to be done to make
More needs to be done to make beaches and moorland bogs more car-friendly. It’s what we pay our road tax for.

[pockstone]

“…Utilities are a law unto

“…Utilities are a law unto themselves.”..”.It’s a wholesale mess – anarchy and chaos. Who is responsible and how do we vote them out?”

Specifcally re. utilities, there were plenty of chances between May 1979 and November 1990. How did you vote, Julian, whilst Thatcher was treasonously dismantling public accountability and looting the birthright of the nation?

[David9694]

Yes, it’s an “all is not it

Yes, it’s an “all is not it as it first seems” kind of show, which audiences might not all take to as some of the themes could be quite unsettling. Outline scripts I’m reviewing include “Jamie, 12” in which the child is seriously injured on his bike by distracted Dacia driver Roy.  For most of the episode it looks like Roy, being in charge of the 1.5 tonne motor vehicle is going to be found guilty, but last-minute evidence emerges that the steering “went funny” at the time of the incident. 

Reasonable Doubt is my working title. 

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