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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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Land Rover driver finds rude note on windscreen but his reaction is priceless
Hmm:
Mr Chester, who describes himself as environmentally conscious,But not so environmentally conscious that he drives an SUV in the Birmingham suburbs, clearly…
Land Rover driver finds rude
Land Rover driver finds rude note on windscreen but his reaction is priceless
Adam Chester found two messages on his Land Rover in Harborne
Far from being angry, Mr Chester, who describes himself as environmentally conscious, said he understood the mystery fly-poster’s view and was grateful no damage was done. The 46-year-old said: “I’m all for people having an opinion and being allowed to protest.
“The oceans are rising, climate change is worrying, we have to be aware but it needs to go higher up the chain. Is the government doing enough ?”
Cornwall Council car parking
Cornwall Council car parking controversy continues as Callington traders say new £1 charge is ‘nail in the coffin’
Well, Cornwall, here’s the thing about this – you’ve got what leastways, at national level you voted for, you have returned 6 out of 6 Conservative MPs since 2015 and a majority (of those of who voted) opted for Brexit: i.e. a vote to be poorer yourself, your job likely to be less secure, less prospects generally and for there to be less money in the economy.
With Brexit, you voted for inflation and higher interest rates (after many years of abnormally low IR) so many things costing more, and you have both. Didn’t you used to have a big fishing industry? Putin added the energy crisis for good measure.
Anyway, you have voted for the local council to receive less from the centre – so Council Tax went up and now a whole lot more income has to come from service charges levied on you, such as for parking.
To get into the specifics, and it’s the same all over England of course, Cornwall Council raised just over £1.2bn revenue in 2017/18 and this has only slightly increased for 2022/23.But the make-up has changed: in 2017/18 fees & charges income was £225m and nearly half the total was from the Government: £544m. In 2022/23, just over half was from fees and services – £622m, and £86m from government.
Finally, let’s cross to Wellingborough, Northamptonshire the largest place I know of where town centre off-street parking is free (although its days are probably numbered now). Do we hear the sound of happy traders, of a retail boom town? Well not exactly…
How is Wellingborough town centre faring? We take a closer look at shop openings, closures and what the future holds
The town has changed significantly over the years, and in 2023 we took to the streets to analyse what it does well and what it needs to do better
https://www.cornwall.gov.uk/media/lptd4kr2/cornwall-council-statement-of-accounts-2017-18.pdf (Note 8 p71)
https://www.northnorthants.gov.uk/car-parks-north-northamptonshire/council-car-parks-wellingborough
Always ‘controversial’* isn’t
Always ‘controversial’* isn’t it:
https://www.wsfp.co.uk/news/cyclepath-along-a39-from-dunster-to-minehead-is-now-open-625540 – £1m cycletrack scheme largely sticking within the existing highway footprint
vs
https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/ongoing-330m-a30-dualling-scheme-8583245 – £330m and the land churned up again because one more lane will fix it
Me to whingeing driver re cycleway: would you ride on this bit of road?
them: hell no!
me […]
Arundel Gate restrictions
Arundel Gate restrictions snared 1,026 motorists from June 3 to June 30 – an average of 38-a-day.
A tax on the blind !
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/volatile-motorist-downs-drove-towards-8588935?int_source=nbaThe email said: “We use a secluded ‘classroom’ area surrounded mostly by bushes and trees so we are removed from the main body of the Downs. Yesterday, a car began to drive into the classroom area while 29 five and six year olds were seated on the ground.”Two volunteers immediately approached the driver and asked him to back away, which he did, but then he parked on the trail which was about to be used by the children. The email said: “They asked him to move again and he refused and was very rude to them.”
The volunteers remained calm in order to defuse the situation, according to the email. It added that the children had been placed in ‘an extremely vulnerable position with a volatile person at the wheel of the car illegally on the Downs’.
The article says that even before the motorist turned up they had had to clear away wet-wipes and human faeces from the site
Yes, but my gold plated
Yes, but my gold plated diesel guzzling w@nkpanzer enhances the look of the natural environment!
I would assume is what the moaning people say.
Anger erupts over new parking
Anger erupts over new parking charges at Devon beauty spot
The charity which runs the car park has said that the money collected will go towards conserving Torbay’s biodiversity and that their members go free
“Some commenters even said they would cover the automatic number plate recognition camera with a plastic bag or their own number plates to avoid the charge. Others even hinted at vandalism.”
https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/fuming-locals-rage-against-new-8588871
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