[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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[Jogle]

Drivers are still going
[b]Drivers are still going through Portland Terrace bus zone[/b]

But yesterday morning, shortly after rush hour, 54 vehicles were seen driving through the zone near Westquay in just 30 minutes – despite signs and warnings.

My favourite reader comment has to be [I]”The roads are for vehicles? Pavements for pedestrians. Not very entitled, its why they are there. The arrogance of councillors to take the road away from the public is astounding & they forget why they exist.”[/I]

https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/24082815.drivers-still-going-portland-terrace-bus-zone/

[essexian]

Jogle wrote:

Jogle</p> <p>[/quote wrote:

Torched my car? Bring back hanging! No, that’s too good for you

Torched my cat…? 

They would not find your body for many, many years. 

[Jogle]

essexian wrote:

essexian wrote:

David9694 wrote:

The police phoned: “We found the man who burgled your house / shot your cat / torched your car – turns out he’d had a difficult few weeks, so we let him off with a caution”

If anyone hurt any of my seven cats, I wouldn’t phone the Police…. I have a certain set of wheels and I would handle it myself!

Torched my car? Bring back hanging! No, that’s too good for you

[essexian]

David9694 wrote:

The police phoned: “We found the man who burgled your house / shot your cat / torched your car – turns out he’d had a difficult few weeks, so we let him off with a caution”

If anyone hurt any of my seven cats, I wouldn’t phone the Police…. I have a certain set of wheels and I would handle it myself!

[David9694]

One for the wait ’til he

One for the wait ’til he hears about cars folder

Exeter man fears ‘silent assassin’ e-bikes in city centre

Mark Tyler, a former ITV Westcountry presenter, says he has narrowly missed being hit by an e-bike in Exeter on at least two occasions

“It’s down to us to ensure that we don’t step out unless we’re absolutely convinced that everything’s ok but sometimes you see a bike in the distance and before you know it, it’s on top of you.”

https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/exeter-man-fears-silent-assassin-9065014
 

Gosh, Mike nearly hit on two occasions you say – let’s you and me go for a bike ride, and see how long it takes us to notch up two “nearly hits”

[brooksby]

‘Seismic shift’: push toward

‘Seismic shift’: push toward SUVs makes driving unaffordable for many

Luxury vehicles, production cuts and soaring insurance prices have sent the cost of US car ownership out of control

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/jan/29/us-car-costs-insurance-unaffordable

Actually quite an interesting read on how the car companies moved everything toward creating better profit margins, meaning that there is an ever shrinking range of ‘affordable’ motor vehicles (even second hand) in a country which was basically designed around your owning a car to do anything…

(edited for typo:accordable–>affordable)

[David9694]

Get this a lot from the

Get this a lot from the driver accounts: “it’s about control…they want us out of our cars by 2030…vague reference to whatever conspiracy theory”.  

[David9694]

The police phoned: “We found

The police phoned: “We found the man who burgled your house / shot your cat / torched your car – turns out he’d had a difficult few weeks, so we let him off with a caution”

[stonojnr]

Remember Wash Lane ?, well
Remember Wash Lane ?, well today a lorry tried to drive through it, mindlessly following GPS again, and has got stuck

https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/24081098.wash-lane-combs-ford-near-stowmarket-blocked-lorry/?ref=rss

[bikes]

The Urban Anthro-Scape Above
The Urban Anthro-Scape Above by Alexander Jeong.

PS That image is a cropped version of the original.

[David9694]

You be forgiven for thinking

You could be forgiven for thinking that as the the headline has now been changed to:

Grieving pensioner fined outside Poundland on Gillingham Business Park as daughter lay dying in hospital

This commenter encapsulates much of it: 

Mouthy wrote:
28/01/2024 12:16
I sympathise with your situation but you cause yourself more upset by not moving on. I was fined for speeding through lack of concentration, after visiting my terminally ill mother and sister in two different wards of the same hospital. Obviously my mind was on other things but that was no defence. Not putting this behind you will sully your memories of your daughter.

[David9694]

Families call for new

Families call for new crossing at accident hotspot where boy racers ‘bomb down’

Stoke-on-Trent City Council has ‘identified a need for intervention’ on Turnhurst Road

https://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/news/stoke-on-trent-news/families-call-new-crossing-packmoor-9000903

A story that could be told and retold a thousand times over.

[David9694]

Call for £1 toll in traffic

Call for £1 toll in traffic-swamped Devon town

One letter writer has called for a £1 toll to be introduced to anyone driving into Newton Abbot

https://www.devonlive.com/news/news-opinion/call-1-toll-traffic-swamped-9055246

[David9694]

Bloody cyclists 

Bloody cyclists 

https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/map-shows-fly-tipping-hotspots-9057917

[David9694]

where am I supposed to leave

where am I supposed to leave it – you tell me:

Cotswolds blatant pavement parkers pay the penalty in England’s ‘prettiest village’

Bibury takes action against people who put their cars before people

https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/cheltenham-news/cotswolds-blatant-pavement-parkers-pay-9062358

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