[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]

Traders working on survival

Traders working on survival plan as collapsing cliff road could stay closed for years

The coast road to the west looks like being closed for the foreseeable and the locals are wondering what to do next  

Gosh guys, what have got here  – pokey little seaside village off the beaten track, now on a no through road 

“The town should also be marketed as a destination, rather than a place to pass through.” 

could be on to something there… there must be a way that people could get to the town, we need them to come in large numbers in the season and have an enjoyable time, there must be something, if only we could see it…

And then back to Earth with a bump:

“It was suggested that the district council be pressed to make an immediate change in car parking charges, with two hours of early-morning free parking…and to segregate car parks into “short term” and “long term” to encourage parking in the centre of the town.”

https://www.wsfp.co.uk/news/traders-working-on-survival-plan-as-collapsing-cliff-road-could-stay-closed-for-years-597136

[David9694]

Or better still, not have any

Or better still, not have any cars parked all over what looks like a very nice market square?

[Awavey]

Parking bays to be repainted

Parking bays to be repainted after driver confusion https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/23334916.suffolk-parking-bays-repainted-driver-confusion/

[Awavey]

local councillor demands

local councillor demands Network Rail reimburse “residents” who to pay to park in public car parks, whilst track maintenance closed level crossings and access to boat yards…and presumably free parking  https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/23337641.suffolk-network-rail-should-repay-residents-closures/

but it should be noted theres plenty of free parking for cars in Woodbridge, the “residents” just had to use their legs to walk abit further, whilst the county council are supposedly trying to create a mini-holland in the town, albeit I think in an area where theres going to be little benefit from it.

[David9694]

A Kia, so we’re more in

A Kia, so we’re more in luminous, empty city centre, perhaps the 4 gorgeous companions, not quite sweeping ocean road or gnarly mountain track territory?  

[Hirsute]

Apparently this is just a

Apparently this is just a parking issue

“Can this be legal? Parked facing in the wrong direction in a cyclist ASL at traffic lights.”

“Hi Paul, Please report any parking issues to the council, as they would deal with parking issues such as this. Thank you.”

Mark Hodson

“Is that actually parked ?

Dangerous position offence all day long”

Not even Lancs Police !!

https://twitter.com/ibikebrighton/status/1627348984539799553

[Hirsute]

“That’s not what the car ads

“That’s not what the car ads showed us!”

Nonsense, I learnt last night at the cinema that if you get an electric (and it has to be electric) Kia *, then the traffic parts, allowing you an unfettered trip.

For some reason, they also included a cropped shot of an ebike going along – maybe that was some sort of test like the one with the gorilla.

* actually it might not be a Kia, I was laughing too much at the absurd scene of no traffic that I failed to take in the actual make !

[chrisonabike]

Was reminding myself just the
Was reminding myself just the other day how often the road are blocked for maintenance / utility work or building. Or when someone crashed. It’s somewhere, every day in Edinburgh.

But “wasting space on bus lanes / bonkers cycle infra” and “restricting our right to drive”.

Mind you as rich_cb pointed out elsewhere, motor vehicles are such a space- inefficient mode that it takes very little to bring flow down to a glacial speed. That’s not what the car ads showed us!

[David9694]

Live as ‘abnormal load’

Live as ‘abnormal load’ crawls through Lincolnshire at just ? 15mph

The police are advising motorist to plan alternative routes

https://www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/news/local-news/live-abnormal-load-crawls-through-8165286

[David9694]

Oh great 

Oh great 

Hull City Council has indicated bus lanes are likely to return to use at peak times only. Councillor Mike Ross, the council leader, said last week: “The clear message we got from last summer’s transport survey was that most people wanted to see a return to peak-hours bus lanes. We have listened and now we’re taking action.”

[ktache]

But did the police drive give

But did the police drive give themselves a drugs wipe?..

[Hirsute]

“Imagine drinking so much
“Imagine drinking so much that you get into your car and drive straight into the front of a fully marked police van.
The fiesta driver blew 120 at the roadside, the police driver blew 0.”

https://mobile.twitter.com/MerPolTraffic/status/1626358708535001089

[ktache]

Don’t buses stop with fairly

Don’t buses stop with fairly great regularity…

[NotNigel]

Drivers and their problems I

Drivers and their problems I hear you say? According to a taxi driver’s diagnosis of why Hull is so congested it possibly comes as no surprise as to the first point that he makes…

https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hull-east-yorkshire-news/taxi-driver-pinpoints-hulls-traffic-8156633?utm_source=linkCopy&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebar

[David9694]

It’s called CyclingMikey’s

It’s called CyclingMikey’s Twitter timeline. 

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