[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]

Clue here-  https://road.cc

Clue here-  https://road.cc/content/news/cyclist-cancer-beaten-driver-no-reason-297009

[Spangly Shiny]

Bay Em Vay not bee em vee

Bay Em Vay not bee em vee

[David9694]

95 per cent of drivers have

95 per cent of drivers have no idea how to pronounce BMW, study says

suggestions?

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/uk-news/95-per-cent-drivers-no-25365968?int_source=nba

[OnYerBike]

I like public transport and

I like public transport and trams can sometimes be a useful part of that, but the claim “avoiding a tram rail is no harder than not cycling into a kerb” is so obviously ludicrous and demonstrably false that I find it difficult to take anything Mr Tram Fantasist says seriously if that’s the sort of nonsense he spouts. 

There are things that can be done to mitigate the risks associated with tram tracks for cyclists, but if your starting point is that there is no danger and you ignore the issue, then you are undoubtedly going to encounter problems.

There have been well documented problems in both Edinburgh (http://www.spokes.org.uk/documents/public-transport/tram/) and Sheffield (https://www.cyclesheffield.org.uk/2015/11/08/tram-crash-cyclist-tram-accidents-in-sheffield/) 

[David9694]

Newton Abbot bus lane plans

Newton Abbot bus lane plans defeated by people power

‘It is essential that we listen and understand these concerns’

Flip! There’s this and another 5 pages of bad news stories about Stagecoach buses, but well done, gammons and NIMBYs of Newton Abbott. 

https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/newton-abbot-bus-lane-plans-7754491

[chrisonabike]

To save the city we had to

To save the city we had to destroy it… Shurely we all know the only way to solve Bath’s traffic woes is with bigger, electric cars?  Or start removing cycle facilites, pavements and opening up all possible routes to ease the congestion?  Or make the cars self-aware? (That might do it but maybe via them running over all the drivers though).

I don’t know whether Edinburgh’s initial tram plan was complete utopian fantasy or just wildly optimistic financially.  It was at least trams (plural) rather than the single model railway version we have now.  Equally I don’t know whether the outcome would have been brilliant had the council actually taken advice / employed suitable folks to actually manage this.  What I can say is that the Dutch – who know a thing or two – recommend that you avoid mixing cycling and trams and manage interactions carefully.  Edinburgh certainly didn’t, with serious injuries and a fatality as the result.

[David9694]

it’s nice it’s nice to know

it’s nice it’s nice to know that someone is reading my stuff – attentively in your case. 

[David9694]

“We know that cycling

“We know that cycling organisations in Bath are opposed to trams on the basis that they are dangerous to cyclists, but this is not the case. The danger to cyclists and the thing that puts them off cycling more than anything is cars, and one only has to look at the pictures on the Bath Trams website of cyclists in tram towns happily cycling over tram rails in Europe to realise this. Avoiding a tram rail is no harder than not cycling into a kerb.”

It’s academic, Mr Tram Fantasist as sadly it will never happen in Bath but anyway while there have been some cyclist/tram track issues (poor execution in Edinburgh from memory) I think we’d all rather live in a world where trams were a thing than not. 

https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/news-opinion/trams-the-only-way-solve-7753530?int_source=nba

[David9694]

oh no! Bristol cut in half

oh no! Bristol cut in half AGAIN! (PS now do cars) 

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/half-south-bristol-cut-off-7759263

[Sriracha]

David9694 wrote:

David9694 wrote:

I think we’d all rather live in a world where trams were a thing then not.

Seems a bit wasteful to me. Either install them, or not, but make your mind up.

[David9694]

Mr Pritchard added: “The

Mr Pritchard added: “The administration told us the Ring of Steel was necessary to keep us safe from terrorists. But everybody knows it was a way of making motorists take the flak for the climate crisis.

Bath Ring of Steel: ‘Unnecessary and deeply flawed’ £3m anti-terror measures slammed

https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/local-news/bath-ring-steel-unnecessary-deeply-7756445

[mattw]

The businesses down by the

The businesses down by the lake seem to be operating without Planning Permission for the recent major enlargement, unless it has changed.

They have set up a large aqua park with various activities with no PP.

Such a PP would perhaps require improvement to the Junction as a Planning Condition, which would address the issue.

https://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/20880189.caversham-lakes-uncertain-future-due-planning-law/

[David9694]

more from village Facebook 

more from village Facebook 

Local Cllr “upcoming road closure on only safe, level cycle route south”

Me “will cycle access be maintained please?”

Cllr “I’ll see what I can find out”

Local 1 “closed means closed, why should bikes be different?”

Me “bikes take up hardly any road space. Do you want me to risk my neck on the main road?”

Local 2 “I’m fed up with cyclists thinking they rule the road”

Me: “Sounds good – a week in the stocks if you close pass me”

Local 3 “there’s a safe cycle route next to the main road”

Me: No, there really isn’t. There’s one going north, all 18 inches wide of it”

[Rendel Harris]

David9694 wrote:

Or a Jacques Cousteau accent?

Bois de Boulogne was my guess for a location.

Can anyone make out le caption?

Roughly translated it reads “New Paris: Our pretty female coach drivers. Nice to look at but you don’t want to get too close.” So ironically, given the way it’s being used now, it’s actually taking the piss (albeit in a sexist manner) out of dangerous drivers who run into cyclists.

Bois de Boulogne a good shout, or possibly Bois de Vincennes.

[chrisonabike]

Jacques Cousteau you say?

Jacques Cousteau you say?

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