[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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[Hirsute]

Have you seen the way

Have you seen the way brooksby drives ?!

[Awavey]

Would a classic ever reach
Would a classic ever reach 69mph ?

[brooksby]

People do seem to have this

People do seem to have this misplaced belief that the piece of road outside their house/garden somehow belongs to them…

But this story was a little different in that I see that the car was parked on her driveway.  For fifteen minutes.  By the estate agent working for her landlord.

[brooksby]

They’ve been talking about

They’ve been talking about the Bristol CAZ for years, and it has nearly been put in place a couple of times over the last year before being pushed back. 

But only now, a month before its implementation, are protesters appearing saying it will ‘lock them in their homes’.

[brooksby]

Quote:

Driving a blue Volkswagen Beetle, he sped through 30 mile per hour zones at an average of 45 miles per hour. The highest speed he was clocked at through a zone with the same speed restrictions was 69 miles per hour, more than double the limit.

Was he driving a classic (real) Beetle or a nu-Beetle?

[Hirsute]

https://www.walesonline.co.uk

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/driver-fined-speeding-57-times-25306351

The case was heard at Cardiff Magistrates Court on September 30, where, in Kelly’s absence, the 58 offences were proven, and he was ordered to pay a total of £46,880. He was also disqualified from driving for 36 months and received 48 points on his licence.

[David9694]

You should go on the internet

You should go on the internet and complain.

£15m spent and drivers not happy/satisfied – never will be, never can be.

[David9694]

every council blinkered,

every council blinkered, every police force corrupt, traffic engineers incompetent, every enforcement scheme only about the fines – thank goodness for drivers who always know better than the experts.

Tell you what Mr Bull, the M32 – there’s an example  of something cutting the city in two.

Clean Air Zone will ‘cut the city in two’, says driver ahead of launch

‘They are basically robbing people, and I don’t think the mayor really understands the implications of this for South Bristol’

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/clean-air-zone-cut-city-7718444

[kinderje]

I live in Yeovil and those

I live in Yeovil and those roundabouts with traffic lights are dreadful. I’ve lost count of the times that I am stopped at a roundabout with no traffic around just because the lights are red. One of the roundabouts will not let you turn right without stopping you at least once so if there are more than two cars wanting to turn right you immediately snarl the roundabout up for other traffic. If I am on my bike I have to try and weave through traffic (not always possible) or sit in the middle of a roundabout hoping that cars going straight across see, and avoid, me.

[Bigfoz]

I’ve always thought this was

I’ve always thought this was one of the madder laws in the HC. I mean, what driver hooning into some poor hamlet at 67mph (60+10%+1 cos I’m allowed I’m in a car innit) is actually able to measure the distance between street lights? “Oh hang on, that pair is 186m apart, game on, 60 it is”.

Law should either be “Streetlights = 30 unless otherwise signed”, or always enforced with limit signs. Distances between objects, while passing (even at 30) are impossible to accurately judge.

[David9694]

“That’s a dangerous /busy

“That’s a dangerous /busy /fast road / tricky junction/a lot of accidents there/ the cars go really fast down there”  Yep, nothing about driving to the conditions, or too many cars, car reliance and crap driving. 

 

[JustTryingToGetFromAtoB]

Secret_squirrel wrote:

Secret_squirrel wrote:

I disagree.  Its a crappy road layout and what businesses are down by the lakes are irrelevant.  Basically its a 4 way slightly offset crossroads but with only 3 roads being traffic light controlled.  Its a recipe for disaster.

If you are turning up into Cav park village from the lakes and there is a queue of traffic in the nearside lane you do have to pull out blindly into the far side lane and hope no-one is barrelling down the outside of the queue.

Just coz drivists are raising petitions doesnt mean they are automatically wrong. 

 

I posted that article because I use that Junction and my experience is, yes, you need to be cautious but you aren’t blind. I’ve come out of the lakes on foot and by car. I wouldn’t like doing that direction on two wheels though I do that Junction on the bike going between Sonning and Cav Park (up lowfield).

I’m not saying it’s great, I’m saying that making junctions easier is keeping shit drivers on the road. The danger on that junction is people speeding, racing the lights and blocking the keep clear box not the design itself.

I’m not totally closed to persuasion but it would take a lot to convince me that some one who can’t negotiate that should be on the road. Blaming the business, as opposed to tackling dangerous driver behaviour is madness. Besides, I bet you the numpties that can’t manage that are the same ones that can’t manage Briants Ave.

Edit: i think the biggest danger is drivers coming out of the lakes racing the lights, and drivers from Sonning racing the lights so they are a danger to each other. Let them take each other out, Darwinsim in action. If you exit the Lakes and don’t think you should wait a phase, you are too entitled to be in a car.

[Secret_squirrel]

I disagree.  Its a crappy

I disagree.  Its a crappy road layout and what businesses are down by the lakes are irrelevant.  Basically its a 4 way slightly offset crossroads but with only 3 roads being traffic light controlled.  Its a recipe for disaster.

If you are turning up into Cav park village from the lakes and there is a queue of traffic in the nearside lane you do have to pull out blindly into the far side lane and hope no-one is barrelling down the outside of the queue.

Just coz drivists are raising petitions doesnt mean they are automatically wrong. 

 

[JustTryingToGetFromAtoB]

https://www.readingchronicle
https://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/23056149.calls-change-caversham-lakes-junction-before-somebody-dies/#comments-anchor

This one sums up for me the widespread acceptance of really shitty driving. This is a traffic light junction. Visibility not brilliant from the lakes but unlike the comments it is absolutely false to suggest that you have to drive out blind.

There is a significant core of people who would readily blame a business for existing rather than suggesting drivers who can’t negotiate this junction shouldn’t be driving.

My unpopular take is that roads have become too safe for motors, and vehicles have become too safe for the occupants… it has removed the onus on the driver to actually engage their brain.

[David9694]

Costco urged to act as

Costco urged to act as motorists queue for bargain fuel

similar story in the Southampton Echo affecting a particular road – Desperation Britain

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/costco-urged-act-motorists-queue-25296762

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