[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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[Hirsute]

I don’t even live in Scotland
I don’t even live in Scotland let alone Edinburgh but I was aware of the pavement parking policy.
Leaflet drop – yes let’s leaflet everyone with what, a copy of the highway code ?

[David9694]

Motorist fined £100 for

Motorist fined £100 for parking on pavement outside his own house

 “The council wardens in their wisdom are now issuing tickets for this sort of parking.” He added: “Absolutely scandalous. Something that needs to be highlighted to everyone. Not even a leaflet drop to warn anyone. Immediate £100 fine. Heartless money grabbers.”

https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/motorist-fined-100-parking-pavement-9076099

Poor little me. Excellent – whole of the UK, please.  See also:

Cherry Wood Primary School: Police warn on parking

https://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/24095158.cherry-wood-primary-school-police-warn-parking/

Outrage over ‘atrocious’ parking situation in Leominster

https://www.herefordtimes.com/news/24082004.outrage-atrocious-parking-situation-leominster/

Fleggburgh parking row prompts double yellow lines call

https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/24083756.fleggburgh-parking-row-prompts-double-yellow-lines-call/

[David9694]

Drivers fined over new

Drivers fined over new temporary speed limit changes on A20 Sidcup Road, near Swanley Interchange

She added: “There must be so many people who are stressed, who have not been able to sleep or eat over the NIPs.

“People are going to lose their jobs and homes. Most people have a clean licence and now they are at risk of losing it over this.

“However, as highlighted to you again by a local journalist this week, there is still at least one sign stating 50mph and many Satellite Navigation systems are still showing 50mph and 70mph for this section of road.

https://www.kentonline.co.uk/bexley-and-bromley/news/thousands-slapped-with-fines-as-speed-limit-drops-from-70m-301221/

[David9694]

Not-so Smart car gets stuck

Not-so Smart car gets stuck trying to pass bin lorry in Ruins Barn Road, Sittingbourne

https://www.kentonline.co.uk/sittingbourne/news/car-gets-stuck-after-trying-to-pass-bin-lorry-301158/

[brooksby]

OnYerBike wrote:

Tesla Norway fjord crash passengers saved by floating sauna users

It took me a while to parse that headline.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-europe-68177125

The first line of the text might have actually made a better headline, not so much in ‘Newspaper Headline English’:

BBC wrote:

The users of a sauna boat came to the rescue after a Tesla plunged into a fjord in Norway.

[OnYerBike]

Tesla Norway fjord crash

Tesla Norway fjord crash passengers saved by floating sauna users

It took me a while to parse that headline.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-europe-68177125

[David9694]

oh, nothing just the

oh, nothing just the headlines page of the Southern Echo earlier this week 

[ktache]

In 2022 there were 13 flights

In 2022 there were 13 flights between Farnborough and Blackbush. It’s 5 miles.

Greta was in Farnborough at the weekend.

[David9694]

Cars drive almost everyone

Cars drive almost everyone into transport poverty, one way or another.  

Too poor? You don’t even get to play. Suck it up. 

Low/middle income? Sacrifice too much of your money to sit in queues

middle income? sit in queues or wfh 

high income – private jet/ helicopter or chauffeur while you sit in the queues you couldn’t avoid 

to function at any level, the system relies on the poorest being completely exluded and then does next to nothing to help them 

[Jogle]

Dinas Powys man was driving
[b]Dinas Powys man was driving while disqualified for 18th time[/b]

Lee Mears sped at 80mph in a 40mph zone, drove on the wrong side of the road around a blind bend and caused a lorry to brake sharply to avoid a crash.

The pursuit lasted 25 minutes as he was chased through the Spytty, Goldcliff and Nash areas of the city on the night of Friday, December 15 last year.

Mears hit another driver causing damage to his wing mirror, Cardiff Crown Court was told.

The 35-year-old and his Citroen Boxer van were only brought to a halt after a stinger device was deployed to deflate his tyres.

So he was jailed for 16 months and banned from driving for six years…. because driving bans are so effective at stopping him from driving……

https://www.barryanddistrictnews.co.uk/news/24084608.dinas-powys-man-driving-disqualified-18th-time/

[David9694]

“I’m not against cycling-“

“I’m not against cycling-“

“that’s great, let’s get this built-“

“but-“

“there’s a but?”

Cycle route branded ‘absolutely ridiculous’ ahead of work starting on crucial section

There’s anger but also positivity as the Longlevens section will see work along the B4063

https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/gloucester-news/cycle-route-branded-absolutely-ridiculous-9067569

[David9694]

Oxfordshire 20mph speed

Oxfordshire 20mph speed limits introduced in four new areas

New 20mph speed limits are to be introduced in four areas of Oxfordshire despite concerns the county will “soon become like North Korea”.

https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/24075925.oxfordshire-20mph-speed-limits-introduced-four-new-areas/

[David9694]

How bullshit travels 

How bullshit travels 

[David9694]

Victory for our great city’

Victory for our great city’ as clean air zones to be binned

More than 1,100 people signed the petition, which also opposed the introduction of the “15-minute-city”

yet here you are Council leader Jane Ashworth 5-6 years on doing nothing to protect your residents from pollution. 

“The situation is fairly clear. Since 2018, when the Conservative Government told the city to clean up its pollution problems, there has been agreement that yes things need to change, and yes the decisions that are made and plans that are put forward need to come forward from within our city.

“Time after time, you will see a situation where something may be imposed by central Government that doesn’t quite get it in terms of the way life works and traffic flows in our city. It’s our intention to make sure that Government does not impose upon us a solution that doesn’t meet our needs.

“We are working frequently with external contractors, with people who understand better than we do, the issues around polution in our city and we’re trying to come up with something which says we do not need a CAZ (Clean Air Zone). What we need instead is some traffic changes around a specific area in Fenton.

https://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/news/stoke-on-trent-news/mp-jonathan-gullis-takes-petition-9061435

[David9694]

Clearly you live near St Ives

Clearly you live near St Ives. 

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