[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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[ktache]

Market Jew Street?

Market Jew Street?

[David9694]

Hell up in Penzance as car is

Hell up in Penzance as car is driven down busy pavement backwards

The pavement rises a good four or five feet above the road below, making for quite an unusual sight

https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/hell-up-penzance-car-driven-8659063

tell me again about that pavement cyclist you think you saw in April 

[chrisonabike]

Hirsute wrote:

You really have to watch the video though.

You were right, I did.  And again.  And again.

The man is right.  It won’t be popular here but this really is one of those cases where the road is going too slow for the drivers.

[Hirsute]

It’s the road not the driver

It’s the road not the driver

A man has identified an accident blackspot in Northern Ireland.

He has sent the Department of Infrastructure a selection of clips showing vehicles crashing in the same place over the period of a month.

See more👉 https://t.co/fc6U6W9uZC pic.twitter.com/hp52KyGonV

— Sky News (@SkyNews) August 6, 2023

“A man has identified an accident blackspot in Northern Ireland. He has sent the Department of Infrastructure a selection of clips showing vehicles crashing in the same place over the period of a month.”

You really have to watch the video though.

[David9694]

Drivers fined for ignoring

Drivers fined for ignoring traffic restrictions along B8008 Morar to Arisaig route in the Scottish Highlands

A Sky News reader, who is currently staying at one of the local campsites, said the double yellow lines are “doing absolutely nothing” to discourage drivers from parking on the verge at Traigh Beach.

https://news.sky.com/story/drivers-fined-for-ignoring-traffic-restrictions-along-b8008-morar-to-arisaig-route-in-the-scottish-highlands-12932357?obOrigUrl=true

tell me again about that badly parked e scooter 

[David9694]

Drivers charged more for

Drivers charged more for parking if they want to pay with cash

“There are hundreds of thousands of older people who depend on their cars but who don’t use computers. Hiking their parking costs is a disincentive to them getting out and about, and engaging fully in society.

“We know that councils are under huge financial pressure but we hope this one will reconsider its approach, which has the unfortunate effect of clobbering some older motorists more than everyone else.”

https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/drivers-charged-more-parking-want-8658631

[David9694]

Patient left shocked over

Patient left shocked over state of parking at Devon hospital

Ah, Bruce that’s quite the roller-coaster ride you’ve taken me on there:

• I guess if you are a blue badge holder, I have to let the 5-minute car journey pass
• People who can’t manage a parking app, but are somehow perfectly safe to drive a car
• but you really lost me at “you can’t have a new hospital because cars”
• “When are you going to sort out the parking situation? There are at least two places where a multi-story car park could be built” – you know what, Brucey, my guess is hospital managers have got their hands full with providing the clinical service – what do you reckon? That said, there will be an Estates team managing the issue day to day, and who could probably tell you what the options are for things like multi-storey car parks are if you want to induce still more demand on to the site, but probably not where the money to do it would come from – in true driver style you have no clue about that, do you? 

https://www.devonlive.com/news/news-opinion/torbay-hospital-parking-anger-patient-8644034
 

[HoarseMann]

I like to think this driver

I like to think this driver bought a 4×4 for the one time a year they visit a music festival…

[David9694]

Beautiful Devon town rocked

Beautiful Devon town rocked as it fears impact of controversial revamp

Devon’s highways chief, Cllr Stuart Hughes said the proposals would make Queen Street a “more attractive, accessible, inclusive place for visitors and locals alike.” The leader of Teignbridge District Council, Cllr Martin Wrigley, acknowledged there is “some controversy” in Newton Abbot about the scheme, but said there is a “long history that shows pedestrianisation projects do improve the commerce in the street and the life of the street, and I think this is a change that needs to be done.”

Concerns though were raised by Cllr Janet Bradford, representing the South Devon Alliance. She said the view was that the changes would drive even more people to the out-of-town shopping centres, adding: “There’s absolutely no evidence that these plans will provide any benefit for either businesses or the users of Queen Street. But there is clear evidence in other towns that schemes to reduce convenient parking are very damaging.”

https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/beautiful-devon-town-rocked-fears-8646826

[David9694]

Storm Antoni: BMW driver’s

Storm Antoni: BMW driver’s lucky escape after tree lands on car – Plymouth

Just an hour before the tree came crashing down the owner’s young daughter had been sitting inside the vehicle

So on a day with a named storm blowing through, with parents claiming to have suspected this tree of being diseased, etc for years, he still parks downwind of it on their drive? 

[David9694]

What law says you can do if

What law says you can do if neighbour takes your parking space (TL:DR – not a lot )

One in six of us have had a row with a neighbour over where people can and cannot park their car

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/uk-news/what-law-says-you-can-27466650

what cars do to people. 

[David9694]

You can’t have nice things

You can’t have nice things because cars 

Plans to pedestrianise Sleaford market square ‘will kill’ trade in town

https://www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/news/local-news/plans-pedestrianise-sleaford-market-square-8602169

[David9694]

The awful moment road rage

The awful moment road rage driver forces grandad to pull over before killing him with one punch

Road rage driver Arslan Farooq has been jailed for the manslaughter of Simon West

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/black-country/awful-moment-road-rage-driver-27461905

[David9694]

Update – appeal case thrown

Update – appeal case thrown out on procedural grounds. More to do with the company’s incompetence than willingness/ability to communicate in Welsh.

Chalk one up against Big Car Parking and one for the Little Man. File under W for What cars do to people. 

Case launched against Welsh language campaigner who refused to pay English-only parking fine thrown out

[Cugel]

Jogle wrote:

[quote=Jogle][b]Milton Keynes councillor resigns after motoring conviction[/b] I saw the headline and thought that, for once, a politician had done the honourable thing; been convicted of something and resigned. Then I read the article and the councillor was convicted of driving without due care and attention, on a provisional licence and without insurance (caught after crashing into another car) in May but only resigned recently as the local newspaper reported it. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-66408067%5B/quote%5D

A perfek emblem of The Toryspiv – amoral and stuffed i’ the big hugly heed with the notion that there’s one law for the serfs and another for the aristocrats such as hisself. (Or, rather, no law at all).

I’m surprised he resigned, when found out, rather than making howls & barks about his freedumbs. But perhaps the local Toryspivs have not yet devolved into the fullblown Boris Bokum mode? 

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