[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]

Watching these vids is like a
Watching these vids is like a guilty pleasure of mine. I’d been wondering about going there one time to see if I can clear it on the bike ?

[belugabob]

Awavey wrote:

Awavey wrote:

but you could easily tear the reg part off, and still dump the bag or its contents so it doesnt solve the problem, equally alot of the road detritus we see, and Im not denying people do still chuck stuff and dont care, but actually comes out the back of rubbish trucks, as they just chuck the rubbish in the back and rarely if ever secure/close the hatch part, it might compact it a bit, but most of its still left loose right, and when the truck gets up to a certain speed there is a negative pressure effect that actually then sucks some of the trash back out.

I only know this because I happened to be following one once that was merrily dumping McDs type stuff and other loose items roadside as it hacked along a road.

 

That doesn’t explain the copious quantities of cans/bottles/fast food containers that can be found at the traffic lights at the end of motorway off-ramps.
I can honestly say that I’ve never seen a refuse truck on a motorway.

[David9694]

Marlborough as a shopping

Marlborough as a shopping location is receiving all sorts of praise at the moment. It is very nice,  but would that be the same Marlborough that was infested by lorries before the M4 was built and is now as car-infested as it gets? 

If you got rid of 90% of the street parking, even if it was only on specific days, I’m pretty sure it would be a retail gold mine. 

[David9694]

will someone please think of

will someone please think of the drivers?

Abusive Dorset school pupils walked in road forcing cars to brake and swerve

“Drivers have complained about pupils walking two or three abreast with their backs to traffic and when challenged by drivers they have become very abusive.”

https://www.dorset.live/news/dorset-news/abusive-dorset-school-pupils-walked-7909927

[David9694]

When you mix a

When you mix a pedestrianisation with a string of iffy car parks, relief road with iffy underpasses and the local river, you can end up cutting your town centre off from its surrounds.  But if your business is offering something special or worthwhile, people will find it.
They can be a strange lot, shopkeepers, they seem to associate people driving past in their cars with actual trade. 

[David9694]

It’s either this or you

It’s either this or you cycled along a footpath and there are toppled pensioners strewn all the way back to Cookham.  

[David9694]

Pub only accessible on foot

Pub only accessible on foot or by boat, how ever do they survive? (Reply to Brooksby)

https://www.facebook.com/thebounty1/reviews
 

[Hirsute]

Yes, but as I have discovered

Yes, but as I have discovered when putting this forward to people, they just say “Yeah, well that’s not [insert town/city/village] here“

[wycombewheeler]

David9694 wrote:

Pub only accessible on foot or by boat,
 

Not true, I have cycled there.

[wycombewheeler]

that’s why every shopping

that’s why every shopping centre ever built has the access road right through the middle of the shops and parking spaces right outside. Because people love shopping around cars…

wait, hang on….

[hawkinspeter]

brooksby wrote:

Aren’t there studies that show how much traders overestimate how many of their customers came by car and parked right outside / near their premises…

No it’s well known that pedestrianised areas rapidly turn into ghost towns and all the shops go out of business.

[chrisonabike]

Is that why “Rufford Ford”? 

Is that why “Rufford Ford”?  People just trying to help out with “footfall”?

[David9694]

Drivers: “he hit me from

Drivers: “he hit me from behind”

also drivers “this traffic’s terrible”

[brooksby]

David9694 wrote:

too many arms folded to resist here…

Portswood Broadway closure: Businesses ‘will not survive’

https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/23174302.residents-businesses-battle-portswood-broadway-closure/

Aren’t there studies that show how much traders overestimate how many of their customers came by car and parked right outside / near their premises…

[brooksby]

David9694 wrote:

Residents slam ‘selfish’ Falmouth neighbours causing major parking problems

Motorists say they can’t fit ordinary cars through the busy town street – let alone emergency vehicles

“This is my street and I have had so much damage done to my cars it’s unbelievable. The ‘wall’ side of the road seriously needs double yellow lines. We struggled to pass this morning in a Golf. In the last six months it’s got so much worse.”

https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/residents-slam-selfish-falmouth-neighbours-7899215

Its funny how its always their neighbours who are causing problems, and never them…

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