[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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[festina]

Not like anyone in Westbury
Not like anyone in Westbury on Trim isn’t short of a few quid for parking.

[David9694]

let me continue to store my

let me continue to store my personal possessions on your land for free 

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/new-charges-free-bristol-car-8073798

[ktache]

Or remove the parts and take

Or remove the parts and take them with you.

[chrisonabike]

Excellent idea.  Or just

Excellent idea.  Or just chain the doors including bonnet and boot to the wheels and attach all that to a stout anchor like you have to with a bike.  Maintaining a similar weight ratio to my bike lock : bike weight somewhere between 100 – 200 kilos of chain and lock should do it…

[ktache]

A new market for HexLox.

A new market for HexLox.

[andystow]

chrisonatrike wrote:

chrisonatrike wrote:

Sounds like car owners are now experiencing what cyclists in some urban places have had for years:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-64400336

It occurs to me there’s likely more to that story. Those panels are a pain to remove. I suspect someone has the same car with front end damage they either can’t afford to fix or don’t want to report, and targeted an identical car to get the panels they needed.

[chrisonabike]

Sounds like car owners are

Sounds like car owners are now experiencing what cyclists in some urban places have had for years:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-64400336

[andystow]

chrisonatrike wrote:

chrisonatrike wrote:

It’s because (parts of) society don’t have any taboo about crap driving but all of society is very pro-driving.  Or has it as aspiration “gonna get a new car!” or requirement “you don’t have a car?!”

The first of those struck me the other night at the pub. The kitchen had closed and the cook was at the bar having a beer. She was talking about buying a new “K5” (which I had to look up, turns out it’s a Kia, starting about $25k US.) She was excited about replacing her six year old car, she’s single and I’m pretty sure she earns somewhere between 1/5 and 1/4 what I make, and I’ve never bought a new car in my life! My current car is 18 years old and cost less than half that used! My car, plus my wife’s car, plus all of my bicycles probably add up to about $25k.

[JustTryingToGetFromAtoB]

My mate sent me this, and I
My mate sent me this, and I can’t stop laughing at it. Honestly, we can’t hope to understand the problems faced by those with too much money and want to go vroom-vroom.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/jan/25/whats-red-and-sounds-like-400000-an-electric-ferrari-once-you-add-fake-engine-noises

[David9694]

will someone please think of

will someone please think of the poor Bath city centre drivers.  No wait, it sounds like the Bath Lib-Dems are:

“But […] many residents in and around the city centre, who are on very low wage, who own a car because they have to because of where they work or the type of work they do…”

council cabinet member for resources Richard Samuel shut down suggestions that a permit could one day be needed for cars to drive into the clean air zone, insisting: “We are not going to charge cars in the clean air zone. End of.”

https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/local-news/cars-could-charged-enter-parts-8068453

[brooksby]

Grahamd wrote:

[quote=Awavey]”Call for yellow lines on dangerous street ” https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/23268179.suffolk-call-yellow-lines-dangerous-street/%5B/quote%5D

We had similar issues locally, I don’t understand why planning permission doesn’t include a requirement for building companies to provide their own parking for their builders.

Our local garage built an extension to their building/workshop which ate up all of their onsite customer parking (which includes the parking for vehicles that they are going to be working on but not right now).  But it’s fine, because they can park them on all the neighbouring residential streets instead…  

[Grahamd]

Awavey wrote:

[quote=Awavey]”Call for yellow lines on dangerous street ” https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/23268179.suffolk-call-yellow-lines-dangerous-street/%5B/quote%5D

We had similar issues locally, I don’t understand why planning permission doesn’t include a requirement for building companies to provide their own parking for their builders.

[Awavey]

“Call for yellow lines on
“Call for yellow lines on dangerous street ”
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/23268179.suffolk-call-yellow-lines-dangerous-street/

[Awavey]

“There are pavements with
“There are pavements with people walking with prams around the village. If you have got trucks with paths where people have to go, sooner or later somebody is going to get injured”
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/23267530.elmswell-roadworks-cause-traffic-chaos-village/

[David9694]

Poor old car-dominated

Poor old car-dominated Lyndhurst, its high Street and main roads are a clockwise a one-way system, it is drivers’ gateway to all points south and east towards the coast.

It’s one of those places where the traffic engineers have given – there really isn’t any more they can do to deal with the summer traffic that builds most notoriously down the A337 coming off the M3. 

https://www.advertiserandtimes.co.uk/news/plea-for-master-plan-on-new-forest-village-s-terrifying-tr-9294963/

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