[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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[chrisonabike]

HoarseMann wrote:

…. Not to mention the difficulty in transporting a class load of hula-hoops by bicycle!

Not seeing the problem?

[HoarseMann]

chrisonatrike wrote:

Or can you get one on hire purchase – only 700 quid a month!

Ouch! You’d really want to be driving it all the time to get your money’s worth. Would be a bit galling to have it sat on the drive whilst you cycled across Liverpool to various dance classes. Not to mention the difficulty in transporting a class load of hula-hoops by bicycle!

[chrisonabike]

Oh, missed that.  I saw a

Oh, missed that.  I saw a slightly lower price but for the car but yes, it’s not a 10 year old Fiesta is it?  Perhaps her partner – “a director at an Olivier Award winning theatre company” – gave her a treat?  But then, you could flog that, get that Fiesta and walk away with a multiple of my yearly wage.  That’d keep you in taxis for a bit.

Or can you get one on hire purchase – only 700 quid a month!

So probably good work by her brief then and the usual sympathetic magistrates.

Depending on her business, perhaps allowing her to keep the licence but adding a community service element would have been appropriate (I know, I know…)

[HoarseMann]

It is rough being caught

It is rough being caught multiple times by a speed camera and not getting the opportunity after the first offence to correct your behaviour. I have a little sympathy, but then she was playing the ‘can’t afford taxi/driver’ card, whilst also driving a £72k Audi E-tron on a wage of £2.3k per month. Summat doesn’t add up to me.

[David9694]

Cormac workers forced to

Cormac workers forced to resurface around cars left on road in Helston

Some people clearly either missed the warning signs or thought that they need not listen

https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/cormac-workers-forced-resurface-around-8207771

[Rendel Harris]

hirsute wrote:

He said the strangest thing he’d seen on patrol was a driver doing dumbbell exercises in a lorry behind the wheel on the M20 .

Couple of years back I was following a Porsche Boxster in slow traffic through Richmond Park. He was meandering a bit and I thought ah, obvious ‘phone driver…when I overtook him he was leaning forwards, steering with his forearms and using those spring hand strengthener things, one in each hand.

[chrisonabike]

Hmm… read the article and

Hmm… read the article and for once I’m thinking that this might be one to be OK with the magistrates letting slide.  I don’t know whether it carries any weight or is just “words” but they did advise that any offense in the next 3 years and the court would not accept the same excuse.

We also have facilitated our entire population being able to build their lives around casual super-mobility.  Like being able to cover, say, 20+ miles per day with multiple trips, possibly carrying others.  I’d deffo suggest that we could fix the infra so she could cycle in, if it was only there and back. However it looks like going to her mother’s area would make this a triangle having 7-8 mile sides, plus I don’t know where the other dance places are.  Google suggests just cycling that triangle would be 19 miles, 1 hour 40 min+ and you’d gain a hundred metres or so.  Not casual cycling for a new starter!

If she was caught again though… sorry Liverpool kids, you’ll lose some of your dance services until they can find someone else who can drive properly or the dance project(s) get enough cash to fund a taxi…

[Hirsute]

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

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-64811633

He said the strangest thing he’d seen on patrol was a driver doing dumbbell exercises in a lorry behind the wheel on the M20 .

[stonojnr]

Ipswich MPs have written a
Ipswich MPs have written a transport strategy to tackle traffic issues, same Ipswich MPs who campaigned to remove protected cycle lanes, you can see where this is going right ? https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/23356212.will-new-travel-strategy-end-traffic-issues-ipswich/

[HoarseMann]

hirsute wrote:

hirsute wrote:

She could cycle between sites.

I’m not sure… apparently her Mum lives about 4 miles away:

‘I also care for my mum who lives in Huyton, about four or four miles from where I live. She is 82 years old and has an underlying blood condition. She has to attend hospital regularly for blood tests.

Oh, and she works about 4 miles away from home too. A pleasant 4 mile ride with a good portion through a park. No motorist could be subjected to such punishment! 

[Sniffer]

It isn’t true.
It isn’t true.
In the last year there has been a significant change in the relative price of diesel. This solely due to shift in the supply / demand equation for diesel. Europe is structurally in deficit of diesel but long gasoline. This gap in supply has been filled with imported Russian diesel. Since the Ukraine war started the market has shunned Russian diesel causing a marked shift in diesel prices.

[NotNigel]

The same ‘road tax’ guff in

The same ‘road tax’ guff in the comments ??….I had an instance last week, approaching a horse and rider coming in the opposite direction, car coming up behind them…I was expecting the motorist to wait behind whilst I passed, but driver decided she couldn’t wait so did an accelerated close pass on the horse and forcing me to stop…not sure wether they saw my slowing down for the horse as the green light for them to go…

[chrisonabike]

Apparently “Drivers of the

Apparently “Drivers of the country’s diesel vehicles have every right to feel hard done by as they’re paying a huge premium for the fuel, which in no way reflects its lower wholesale cost.”

That may well be true – but they can console themselves that they’re (probably) getting a subsidy from me for their driving.  I pay tax but don’t own a car and very rarely take buses or drive.  I believe some other folks here are even less car-associated – diesel vehicle drivers are getting a big leg-up from them!

[David9694]

Jeez, slow news day much,

Jeez, slow news day much, Lincs live?

Should horse riders be allowed on Lincolnshire’s roads? Have your say in our poll

https://www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/news/local-news/should-horse-riders-allowed-lincolnshires-8196138

[David9694]

Prices to fall as RAC sends

Prices to fall as RAC sends message to ‘hard done by’ drivers

Will someone please think of the hard done by drivers 

https://www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/prices-fall-rac-sends-message-8203425

 

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