[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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[David9694]

Always time for a chat.

Always time for a chat.

[Hirsute]

My #wankpanzer ensures I have
My #wankpanzer ensures I have a great view of the road ahead

My #wankpanzer ensures I have a great view of the road ahead https://t.co/X9N6zXPkIP

— Wankpanzer Watch (@Wankpanzer) April 30, 2023

[BalladOfStruth]

This is why I think there

This is why I think there needs to be a new approach to the “default” NSL speed on remote roads – maybe 30 until assessed instead of 60? Most roads in the UK are NSL because they’re too remote to warrant an assessment, not because it’s a remotley sensible idea to actually drive down them at anything close to 60mph.

I live well out in the sticks – it’s all single-track ’round here. The thing is with single-track is that they’re essentially ancient footpaths and farm tracks that people started driving cars on rather than “proper” roads. There are loads of small hamlets on these tracks that predate cars by hundreds of years, and people have no choice but to use them on foot. People walk on them to their local shops, to their parked car, their padocks, they walk their dogs on them, some people’s front doors literally open onto them.

Yet the average motorist will see an NSL sign above an obviously blind, winding and narrow track, and will think it’s their God-given right to drive down it at 60mph.

[Hirsute]

Walked in the countryside
Walked in the countryside today, single track. Driver comes the other way, fails to slow. I gesture what are you playing at, so he slams on the brakes to ask what the problem is.
You were going too fast we say
It’s a national speed limit road ( remember this is single track and winding) he says
Read the highway way code we say.

Of course it was a wankpanzer with a snorkel.

[David9694]

Pay up, entitled whingers 

Pay up, entitled whingers 

‘Scam’ car park operators lambasted by Somerset beauty spot visitors

“It’s an interesting bit of coast but terrible parking trap for unsuspecting visitors”

https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/scam-car-park-operators-lambasted-8393514?int_source=nba

[David9694]

what cars do to some people..

what cars do to some people…

Thug punched neighbour and grabbed baseball bat in row over car scratch

Steven Dawe lost control and knocked his victim unconscious

https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/thug-punched-neighbour-grabbed-baseball-8395919

[Jogle]

Berkshire woman left anxious
[b]Berkshire woman left anxious and ‘stumped’ after car left abandoned on her driveway[/b]

I think this is more “Driveways and their problems”

https://www.itv.com/news/meridian/2023-04-28/woman-left-anxious-and-stumped-after-car-left-abandoned-on-her-driveway

[HoldingOn]

Not a news story, but thought

Not a news story, but thought you might all appreciate this driver, putting his hazards to good use, to pass a queue of traffic. I like to imagine he is driving along thinking to himself “look at all these idiots queuing, when they could just hit that magic button on their dashboard and drive on the wrong side of the road.”

[Hirsute]

Adding this for the

Adding this for the description the twitter poster used

“This #PublicArt installation in Los Angeles isn’t particularly beautiful, but it is thought provoking.”

[Steve K]

Yeah, around the centre is

Yeah, around the centre is horrible.

[Rendel Harris]

Fair point, they live almost

Fair point, they live almost in the centre, off Park Lane, it’s a racetrack there. It’s about 12 km from us on the most direct route, we tend to ride around 16/17 km to avoid the worst of it.

[Steve K]

Possibly depends on which bit

Possibly depends on which bit of CR0 you mean – it’s a big postcode area which covers very different bits of Croydon 

[Rendel Harris]

Steve K wrote:

I grew up – and learnt to drive – in CR0.  I’ve not lived there since 1993, though.  Also, it is named a shamed for having the highest number of drivers with 6+ points, but that seems to be an absolute number rather than proportion, as it comes in at 4% (same as where I live now).

My parents-in-law live there, I wouldn’t be greatly surprised if it did top the charts for offending drivers; it certainly has the greatest number of recklessly driven BMWs, Audis and Mercs, usually with illegal tints and gut-busting sound systems. Definitely my least favourite place to cycle in London.

 

[Steve K]

David9694 wrote:

Find out where the worst drivers in Britain are

One area of London is home to more bad drivers than anywhere else in the United Kingdom

I guess the shading indicates the number of drivers per locality with over 6 pp or more. 

Most  places are c5% with some PPs, but I found some orange shaded parts of Leeds where it was 10%. 

https://www.devonlive.com/news/uk-world-news/find-out-worst-drivers-britain-8393938

I grew up – and learnt to drive – in CR0.  I’ve not lived there since 1993, though.  Also, it is named a shamed for having the highest number of drivers with 6+ points, but that seems to be an absolute number rather than proportion, as it comes in at 4% (same as where I live now).

[David9694]

Find out where the worst

Find out where the worst drivers in Britain are

One area of London is home to more bad drivers than anywhere else in the United Kingdom

I guess the shading indicates the number of drivers per locality with over 6 pp or more. 

Most  places are c5% with some PPs, but I found some orange shaded parts of Leeds where it was 10%. 

https://www.devonlive.com/news/uk-world-news/find-out-worst-drivers-britain-8393938

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