[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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[wtjs]

Are the police now routinely
Are the police now routinely accepting “medical episode’ as an excuse for dangerous driving?
Whenever they can, but sometimes they don’t get away with it. I think we’re waiting to hear about the London toff driver in a Range Rover, or similar, who killed children by driving through school walls/ fences. The police tried to get her off, but unfortunately it was a toff school, I think, so the decision had to be reviewed

[Pub bike]

I’d be surprised if it wasn’t

I’d be surprised if it wasn’t possible to determine speed of the car from the video evidence and thus prosecute the driver at least for that.

Are the police now routinely accepting “medical episode’ as an excuse for dangerous driving?

[wtjs]

The constable who eventually
The constable who eventually came out and took our statements went through everything and explained everything with us and was a lot more helpful
This bears all the hallmarks of a standard police ‘There, there. Never mind!’ post-complaint brush-off. I think she’s going to be disappointed by an affirmed NFA, after a sufficient interval to make it look like careful consideration has taken place. What the rest of us want to know is ‘has the driver been prohibited from driving’ after this ‘medical incident’ or do the police take the easy way out and accept ‘I’m all right now, I’m sure it won’t happen again’?

[David9694]

Woman badly hurt in crash

Woman badly hurt in crash angry at police response

A spokesperson for the force said: “Inquiries at the scene indicated the collision was caused by a medical episode. There were no witnesses to the manner of driving beforehand and officers drugs wiped and breathalysed the driver which was negative.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g5dey630lo?

Medical episode, so obviously no action taken. All that seems to have happened in the “review” is a constable has visited her. I hope she’s suing for the injuries and damage. 

[David9694]

The I newspaper gave me a

The I newspaper gave me a tantalising glimpse of this whinge – he’s got a £60 airport penalty “for hugging ny daughter” I.e. leaving his vehicle unattended was as far as I could get. 

Would love to know the rest of this. Any subscribers?

[mdavidford]

The Resistance strikes back

The Resistance strikes back against the ongoing war on motorists by [checks notes] workers clearing roads…

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn83nnl8p05o

[chrisonabike]

David9694 wrote:

David9694 wrote:

A cargo of ordinary cigarettes and not disposable vapes – our man seems to be off the pace.

He was out of puff…

[David9694]

mdavidford wrote:

David9694 wrote:

What we then found was 50,000 counterfeit cigarettes in the boot

Like these? 

A cargo of ordinary cigarettes and not disposable vapes – our man seems to be off the pace.

[David9694]

Cars and car drivers who won

Cars and car drivers who won’t pay £3.10 to park are the answer to all our problems, say Lymington retailers. 

A pretty undignified showing by the town Mayor, IMHO. 

https://www.advertiserandtimes.co.uk/news/stop-killing-the-shops-hundreds-march-in-protest-against-9436439/ (paywall)

[wtjs]

So he has his eye on the

So he has his eye on the allotments, I’d guess, but he seems to have no idea what demand his 1000 new spaces would induce

No, and he doesn’t care either- a true inheritor of the spirit displayed by Eric Idle (I seem to recall) as the Monty Python BMW driving bore: ‘I coud save 2 minutes on that journey, knock that hospital (or care home, social housing, vaccination centre etc.) down…

[David9694]

I saw a Lime bike parked

I saw a Lime bike parked awkwardly the other day. 

Villagers ‘cut off’ as fly tipper dumps ’20 tonnes’ of rubbish on lane 

The unwanted scrap appeared on Wednesday and nobody knows when it will be moved

Close inspection of the heap shows it consists…of car gaskets and other vehicle scrap.

“Definitely from a big tipper truck”https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/gloucester-news/villagers-cut-off-fly-tipper-10551356

 

[David9694]

ktache wrote:

You’d think that if transporting large amounts of illegal goods in an uninsured motor with no license that you might leave the phone alone. We seem to be lucky that many criminals ain’t that bright. We should truly fear the intelligent ones, but most will eventually make mistakes.

the guy is at the point that it would be an insult for him not to get hauled over

[chrisonabike]

David9694 wrote:

David9694 wrote:

Petition calls for solution to fix ‘nightmare’ parking issue at Twyford Railway Station

Hostage to motor dependency – give us your allotments, or we won’t even drive a mile or two to the station to take the train, we’ll just drive.

Of course even if people *were* willing to cycle to the station * ** they won’t if they don’t think their bike will be secure when left. Luckily for everyone that is at least an order of magnitude cheaper to fix for thousands of *cycle* parking spaces. And takes significantly less space.

But … it’s not free. That “pocket change relative to motor provision” is still millions, and people get very aggrieved when they see cash spent on “others” when they feel they are having a hard time themselves – as we are currently witnessing.

Anyway here’s what you could win – a proper integrated transport hub – and not even in a town centre! Note the amount of car parking and where it’s placed, relative to bike parking.

(Same place covered by someone else: https://bicycledutch.wordpress.com/2021/11/03/a-public-transport-hub-in-the-forest-station-driebergen-zeist/)

* or *from* it – see “cheap second bike that lives at the destination station” – or even “integrated bike hire based at most stations”…

** which demands comfortable convenient routes to cycle there – for which we need space *from* motor traffic / much less motor traffic on some routes…

[David9694]

Petition calls for solution

Petition calls for solution to fix ‘nightmare’ parking issue at Twyford Railway Station

“There is a possibility of land on the south side and that is what needs examining, together with…how it’s paid for,” Mr Sleight added.
 

So he has his eye on the allotments, I’d guess, but he seems to have no idea what demand his 1000 new spaces would induce. Gas Lane is as crappy as it sounds if you take the Google Car along there. 

https://www.maidenhead-advertiser.co.uk/gallery/maidenhead/700049/petition-calls-for-solution-to-fix-nightmare-parking-issue-at-twyford-railway-station.html

https://www.change.org/p/support-additional-parking-at-twyford-station

see also: Taplow station parking restrictions could see permanent fix after years of chaos

https://www.maidenhead-advertiser.co.uk/news/traffic-and-travel/203924/taplow-station-parking-restrictions-could-see-permanent-fix-after-years-of-chaos.html

[chrisonabike]

Rendel Harris wrote:

Rendel Harris wrote:

Looks good but Adams Street is less than 500 m long, how on earth will it take thirty weeks?

Also no idea, but I do know that shorter sections in Edinburgh have taken years! Although perhaps in the Cambridge case they’ve managed to get beyond all the approval/notice/consultation stages AND didn’t have or got through what elsewhere would be dozens of objection / challenge cycles from people convinced it will trap them in their homes / businesses convinced it will leave them with no custom / unable to get deliveries.

The latter in at least one case in Edinburgh (part of CCWEL) became a self-fulfilling prophecy, as a section of a project which could have been completed in weeks/months was drawn out into years, which then *did* cause disruption.

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