[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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[hawkinspeter]

Hirsute wrote:

Hirsute wrote:

Bristol folk are a bit strange! https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/real-life/i-crashed-road-ended-up-10367070%5B/quote%5D

Insurance companies hate this one trick:

[quote=Yoga]But when it was her turn to approach Archangel Raphael, he stamped her ticket and reversed the crash. Yoga said: “He got the okay from God to save my life. When I went back into my physical body, my car was miraculously on the road with no scratches or bumps.

[chrisonabike]

Hirsute wrote:

Hirsute wrote:

Bristol folk are a bit strange! https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/real-life/i-crashed-road-ended-up-10367070%5B/quote%5D

Well, it sounds conclusive.  Though the skeptic in me wonders if there could be a more prosaic explanation than she gives:

[quote=Brizzle Post]Yoga nearly met her demise after making plans to meet up with a friend to go partying and decided to do the trip alone. She recalls feeling “euphoric” and lost track of where she was going – and her speed.

While on an empty road, with nobody else around, she lost attention and suddenly, a feeling of dread washed over her. She struggled to breathe and before she knew it, her car flew off the road.

And:

Brizzle Post wrote:

“People say I seem different; but it’s just the new me. […] I haven’t touched any drug, alcohol, caffeine, medicine or animal-based products since to cleanse my body.

I stand corrected – it must be matters of higher dimensions, right enough.  She should report it via #FillThatVoidBetweenWorlds

[Tom_77]

David9694 wrote:

If I have this right, people in Medway are rebelling against maintenance to their own gas supply. 

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[Hirsute]

Bristol folk are a bit
Bristol folk are a bit strange!
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/real-life/i-crashed-road-ended-up-10367070

[David9694]

If I have this right, people

If I have this right, people in Medway are rebelling against maintenance to their own gas supply.  We’re at the fringes of the road network with not many options for a diversion.  Gone are the days when drivers could trusted to not abuse or even injure workers so it will be interesting to see how this is resolved. 

Controversial SGN roadworks through Town Road, Cliffe Woods revoked after backlash from residents

https://www.kentonline.co.uk/medway/news/whoever-decided-that-wants-sacking-roadworks-reprieve-for-327522/

I’ve also seen SoMe backlash against the hospepipe ban – OK so water privatisation has put us in a position where there are leaks, waters losses etc but shouting your non compliance is only going to hasten the day when you turn on your taps and nothing comes out. Then where will you be? 

[David9694]

pockstone wrote:

pockstone wrote:

The aggregate works appear to have their own railhead. Perhaps fewer HGVs might alleviate the immediate traffic problems and, into the future, extend the life of the new gas main?

this you?

[pockstone]

The aggregate works appear to
The aggregate works appear to have their own railhead. Perhaps fewer HGVs might alleviate the immediate traffic problems and, into the future, extend the life of the new gas main?

[David9694]

At a guess, nos 57-71 Unity

At a guess, nos 57-71 Unity Way will have legitimate vehicular use of the gated off area, but houses in Fox Gardens and Maple Ave do not. 

[chrisonabike]

Interesting history – we get

Interesting history – we get to the 1970s and find that was a high water mark of smashing stuff to make way to the car in NL even in NL.  At that point they were doing exactly the same kind of urban vandalism e.g. the UK was, and gearing up for even more.  (In fact, the Dutch are still pretty car-centric – but they’re just not actively accelerating in that direction.  Indeed they’ve recognised that in urban areas they might even want to reverse the trend).

NotJustBikes also has an interesting one comparing two similar-sized Canadian and Dutch cities – in fact 100 years back they looked the same and seemed to be on the same urban trajectory.  Not now…

[HoarseMann]

David9694 wrote:

https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/newcastle-teen-claims-shoe-caught-32064071.amp

Well that shoe looks neither stuck, nor the sort of footwear a teenager would wear. Clearly it’s an outrageous fib!

[brooksby]

David9694 wrote:

They paved Paradise 

When I first moved to Bristol in the early nineties there was an enormous car park called (IIRC) Canons Marsh. It was a huge derelict plot, with a derelict industrial building that you could park in if you wanted to be under cover.

It’s now an underground car park and on top of it are an aquarium and a casino and a science activity centre and (lots of) flats and a ‘public’ square.

I presume Houston had a lot of derelict/empty land?

 

[David9694]

They paved Paradise 

They paved Paradise 

[David9694]

What I see is litter, mainly.

What I see is litter, mainly. 

[chrisonabike]

That is a question, indeed. 

That is a question, perhaps.  But likely to be swiftly countered a) by accusations of ableism / prejudice (as you say “why ever not?”) and b) because we’ve so thoroughly built in motornormativity even getting standard medical assistance can come with the assumption of driving.  Or at least “drive, or potentially spend so much time waiting for transport / collection that never comes / getting to and from appointments / not being able to get to appointments at the times you can get them … that you will be more ‘disabled’ than by any condition you have (e.g. workplace may not work around your absences)”

I’m still baffled by the “I actually have a driveway I could use, but I was leaving that for local kids to play on”.  The first part is standard, but the reason given for not parking there seems curious!

[Spangly Shiny]

You have to ask whether the

You have to ask whether the good gentleman ought really to be driving at all, given his condition.
Then again, of course if he’s been cleared by his doc, why not? Just wish more drivers got proper medical sanction to drive, given the current state of mindless motoring on the blacktop.

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