[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]

David9694 wrote:

David9694 wrote:

“Come off it, Mr. Dent,” he said, “you can’t win, you know. You can’t lie in front of the bulldozer indefinitely.” He tried to make his eyes blaze fiercely but they just wouldn’t do it.

Arthur lay in the mud and squelched at him.

“I’m game,” he said, “we’ll see who rusts first.”

“I’m afraid you’re going to have to accept it,” said Mr. Prosser, gripping his fur hat and rolling it round the top of his head; “this bypass has got to be built and it’s going to be built!”

“First I’ve heard of it,” said Arthur, “why’s it got to be built?”

Mr. Prosser shook his finger at him for a bit, then stopped and put it away again.

“What do you mean, why’s it got to be built?” he said. “It’s a bypass. You’ve got to build bypasses.”

Bypasses are devices that allow some people to dash from point A to point B very fast while other people dash from point B to point A very fast. People living at point C, being a point directly in between, are often given to wonder what’s so great about point A that so many people from point B are so keen to get there, and what’s so great about point B that so many people from point A are so keen to get there. They often wish that people would just once and for all work out where the hell they wanted to be.

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/670/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-by-douglas-adams/9780804191852/excerpt

Are you suggesting that really we shouldn’t be worrying about new roads being built in Earth and that the greater danger is that a hyperspace bypass might be being planned?

[David9694]

“Come off it, Mr. Dent,” he

“Come off it, Mr. Dent,” he said, “you can’t win, you know. You can’t lie in front of the bulldozer indefinitely.” He tried to make his eyes blaze fiercely but they just wouldn’t do it.

Arthur lay in the mud and squelched at him.

“I’m game,” he said, “we’ll see who rusts first.”

“I’m afraid you’re going to have to accept it,” said Mr. Prosser, gripping his fur hat and rolling it round the top of his head; “this bypass has got to be built and it’s going to be built!”

“First I’ve heard of it,” said Arthur, “why’s it got to be built?”

Mr. Prosser shook his finger at him for a bit, then stopped and put it away again.

“What do you mean, why’s it got to be built?” he said. “It’s a bypass. You’ve got to build bypasses.”

Bypasses are devices that allow some people to dash from point A to point B very fast while other people dash from point B to point A very fast. People living at point C, being a point directly in between, are often given to wonder what’s so great about point A that so many people from point B are so keen to get there, and what’s so great about point B that so many people from point A are so keen to get there. They often wish that people would just once and for all work out where the hell they wanted to be.

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/670/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-by-douglas-adams/9780804191852/excerpt

[David9694]

Good to see the council is

Good to see the council is battling on with this 

Cornwall Council faces legal battle as restarted road scheme is ‘bad for business’

https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/cornwall-council-faces-legal-battle-8682834

[David9694]

This letter has cut me in two

This letter has cut me in two

https://www.hampshirechronicle.co.uk/news/23722765.letter-why-spending-200m-winnall-roundabout-scheme-/

(This is Winchester, btw, Aka Chelsea, Hants) 

[Jogle]

Confused A30 Chiverton Cross
[b]Confused A30 Chiverton Cross driver causes chaos by going wrong way[/b]

This seems to be happening regularly.

Kudos to Cornwall Live for a headline which blames the driver and not the car

https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/confused-a30-chiverton-cross-driver-8685368

[giff77]

One of the local fb

One of the local fb communities had some guy kick off about roadworks at a junction being war on motorists. I pointed out that a stretch of grass and the pavement on two of the roads was being sacrificed to create a filter lane on them. He wasn’t having it. Apparently it is a secret attack. 

[Hirsute]

Did your points no longer
Did your points no longer count ?!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-66466626

[Spangly Shiny]

Strange, mine went down by

Strange, mine went down by about 20% this year.

[Hirsute]

Just had the insurance
Just had the insurance renewal – up just over a third !
War on motorists !

[Rendel Harris]

They need to encourage active

They need to encourage active travel as in the famous Australian lion safari park: “Car with up to five people: $20. Poms on bicycles: free admittance.”

[David9694]

Daddy’s takin’ us to the zoo

Daddy’s takin’ us to the zoo tomorrow, zoo tomorrow, queue tomorrow 

 

[David9694]

If the the pavers are red,

If the the pavers are red, pedestrians can go right ahead

But if the paviers are blue, there’s an Audi headed right for you 

[ktache]

Who would have thought that a

Who would have thought that a tourist destination in a part of the country very popular with tourists that is offering free child places in the middle of the school holidays might be a little bit busy…

[David9694]

Paignton Zoo visitors left

Paignton Zoo visitors left ‘hot, angry and frustrated’ by long queues

And that’s not the animals, that’s the drivers. 

https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/paignton-zoo-visitors-left-hot-8681346

[chrisonabike]

BBC wrote:

BBC wrote:

The initiative is the latest change to take place on Paignton Road after traffic was banned in September 2022.

However, it was fully reopened to traffic this month after traders protested against the pedestrianisation.

Phew – it’s all for a good cause then!  I thought it looked like a very large space for the convenience of motorists, and indeed that is just what this is again.

Indeed looking closely at the picture they appear to have expanded the space for cars (on the right).

Lucky that some people refuse to let observation of imperfect reality dampen their belief and are happily “penny wise, pound foolish”:

BBC wrote:

The council said the colour scheme would give “greater clarity for road users and pedestrians” on the approach to a one-way road.

“The red is to remind motorists as they approach the junction to slow down and think ‘should I be driving through here’ before proceeding to turn slowly at the junction,” a spokesman said.

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