[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]

Au subjec de la satnav…

Au sujet du GPS trompeur…

Amazon delivery van seen stuck on footpath as vehicle left abandoned for at least 24 hours

Amazon has confirmed it is working to get the vehicle removed

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/amazon-delivery-van-seen-stuck-28589808

[brooksby]

If roads need to be updated

If roads need to be updated to accommodate absurdly large cars, taxpayers will foot the bill.

(US, but still relevant)

https://slate.com/business/2024/02/car-safety-guardrails-bloat-electric-vehicles.html

It’s a nightmare situation on a highway: Your car hits a patch of ice and starts to skid. Unable to regain control, you panic as you veer toward the roadway’s edge.

In emergencies like this, guardrails provide a failsafe. As explained in a federal memo, a guardrail will “deflect a vehicle back to the roadway [or] slow the vehicle down to a complete stop.” Your car will probably be damaged, but guardrails can prevent something much worse.

But some modern vehicles can instead smash through these guardrails, new research demonstrates, sending their passengers hurtling toward a ditch, cliff, or whatever is on the other side. The problem is that thousands of miles of guardrails installed alongside American highways were designed decades ago, when vehicles were much lighter than the behemoths that increasingly dominate the U.S. car market. And cars are only getting heavier: Bulkier electrified versions of big cars are poised to arrive in the years ahead. The risk of huge vehicles tearing through guardrails is yet another reason to expect American car bloat to augur an expensive, and dangerous, roadway future.

 

[chrisonabike]

I’m out of town currently and
Re: Edinburgh van down steps – I’m out of town currently and know nothing about this… ?

[David9694]

Homer to Bart: “a driver

Homer to Bart: “a driver being hit with a fine is worse because it has happened to them.  Being hit by a car happens to someone else.”

[David9694]

Next up: it’s my human right

Next up: it’s my human right to ground my van on those steps, this is typical of the anti-car council, hard-working drivers, where was the consultation they want us all out of our cars by 2030 I will rip those barriers out myself you see if I don’t 

[Hirsute]

I’m sure I’ve seen this

I’m sure I’ve seen this before but with a different photo

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmmgvnnjgq9o

A barrier is to be installed at the top of a notorious street in Edinburgh after sat-nav errors repeatedly directed drivers down a set of steps.

 

[wtjs]

Southampton Spring Road crash

Southampton Spring Road crash leaves Audi on top of BMW

Good news! Two of them removed in one efficient collision.

[David9694]

Council accused of ‘giving up

Council accused of ‘giving up’ on Bridgwater as plans to upgrade key roundabout are scaled back

The council said it was “taking a new approach” to the issue

The council subsequently announced in mid-January that it would be “taking a new approach”, focussed on improved pedestrian crossings and other walking and cycling improvements rather than physically increasing the amount of space available to motorists.

Speaking from the roundabout site on Monday morning (February 5), Mr Redman said making any improvements to the capacity of the Cross Rifles roundabout was challenging due to the lack of open neighbouring land. He said: “The problem we have when it comes to our road infrastructure is the fact that we’re limited by the close proximity of the houses and the businesses around us.

https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/council-accused-giving-up-bridgwater-9079262

[David9694]

The scene as it once was.  So

The scene as it once was.  So, drivers you’ve been built a whole new road (The Clink, on the site of an old branch line) that along with everything else has put extra strain on this intersection,  now you’re moaning because it’s not enough? 
 

Picture – the scene as it was

[David9694]

follow-up

follow-up

Met Police investigating incorrect 50mph sign on A20 Sidcup Road near Swanley Interchange

https://www.kentonline.co.uk/dartford/news/incorrect-speed-sign-probe-as-thousands-slapped-with-fines-301298/

[David9694]

Not even so much as a leaflet

Not even so much as a leaflet drop. 

[brooksby]

David9694 wrote:

no buildings harmed, maybe a garden fence…

Southampton Spring Road crash leaves Audi on top of BMW

https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/24096839.southampton-spring-road-crash-leaves-audi-top-bmw/

As we all know, motor cars are like semi tamed wild animals, beyond the control of their drivers.  In this case, the Audi clearly should have been spayed…

[Hirsute]

Certainly “right off” the

Certainly “right off” the road.

[Hirsute]

“They didn’t ask the

“They didn’t ask the residents, there was no consultation,”

Against my human rights !

[David9694]

possible successor to Rufford

possible successor to Rufford ford?

Life on ‘UK’s most dangerous hill’ where Huddersfield residents fear death

Locals fear the treacherous road could lead to fatalities if nothing is done

“cars are seen sliding sideways down the steep hill in icy conditions, cars have flipped over and even crashed into stone walls on some occasions, leaving them a total right off.”

https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/local-news/life-uks-most-dangerous-hill-28537320

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