[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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[mdavidford]

Selfish residents trying to

Selfish residents trying to stop people driving past their houses at 70mph – it’s just traffic ‘finding a way’.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4grnxl6gq0o

[David9694]

Good news there then. 

Good news there then. 

[David9694]

But you’re not allowed an

But you’re not allowed an anti-car opinion because (a) you also drive (b) you don’t even drive.

[Rendel Harris]

Bypasses are devices which

Douglas Adams wrote:

Bypasses are devices which allow some people to drive from point A to point B very fast whilst other people dash from point B to point A very fast. People living at point C, being a point directly in between, are often given to wonder what’s so great about point A that so many people of point B are so keen to get there, and what’s so great about point B that so many people of point A are so keen to get there. They often wish that people would just once and for all work out where the hell they wanted to be.

Clearly Mr Watkeys should just stop complaining and accept that sometimes side roads become main roads and we should use the whole road network to convey traffic in the most efficient way possible instead of favouring a privileged few…

[David9694]

You’ve got to build by passes

You’ve got to build by passes, Mr Dent

Pensioner refuses to budge for new £2billion road – which now curves round his home

John Watkeys fought tooth and nail to keep the home he has lived in for 65 years

‘There aren’t any birds left, nothing. It’s almost devoid of the wildlife that you used to see. It’s because the habit is gone. I’ve lost oaks, I’ve lost hawthorns. They took down a lovely 70-year-old oak tree at the bottom of my garden.

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/uk-news/pensioner-refuses-budge-new-2billion-31844449?int_source=nba

[David9694]

Intoxicated plasterer pulled

Intoxicated plasterer pulled over for speeding blames ‘slurred’ speech on dentist

A 42-year-old man who failed a roadside breath test after being caught speeding told police he’d been having problems with his teeth.

[stonojnr]

I didn’t know if they’d
I didn’t know if they’d fitted cameras on the guided way entry part, as Cambridge has alot of bus lane cameras in the city centre, given all the preventing methods don’t seem to work, it would be profitable perhaps.

[brooksby]

The article didn’t say. 

The article didn’t say.  Rather implies that they were just told where to ‘safely’ get off the busway and went on their merry way.

[David9694]

Climb-down’ on hated Cornwall

Climb-down’ on hated Cornwall beach car park camera plan – on one condition

Cornwall Council refused the plan, a Government inspector allowed it, then protesters marched on a Cornish estate’s castle

Drivers really don’t like ANPR cameras, do they? Is that because they are effective at catching the many “cheeky” try-ons? The upshot here is that a ticket machine will be introduced, but no cameras. 

Ms Bennett stressed to locals and visitors alike: “If you don’t use it, we will lose it. If there is further vandalism on the site or if the estate don’t make £1,000 by the end of the year then they will go ahead with installing an ANPR car park.”

https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/cornwall-protesters-win-long-battle-10256802

[stonojnr]

At least they wrote driver
At least they wrote driver and not car I guess, please tell me that driver gets fined for that though, right ?

[David9694]

I had that C3PO in the back

I had that C3PO in the back of my cab once, nice gent he was, got stopped by Robocop though on Victoria Embankment I swear them tyres were legal then this bloke came up and said “this is not the droid you are looking for” and he waved me on. 

[brooksby]

Watch moment driver goes

Watch moment driver goes along busway track (BBC)

Passengers on a Stagecoach bus spotted the vehicle on the tracks between the railway station and Cambridge Biomedical Campus at about 16:00 BST on Monday.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cx2qz2e4x6eo

[David9694]

Segwaying a bit on to Reform

Segwaying a bit on to Reform etc, there’s a case to be made that, in the Reform mind, time stops around the period depicted here.  

Common sense hangs in the air, men and women cheerily know their places, you can smoke in the pub, drink and drive home, no 20 mph signs or pot holes, you can buy a bag of 2 7/64″ screws and have change from a 1/-, you’re untroubled by that embarrassing Twitter post from 2022, no Pride or Black History Month flags to worry about, mass immigration hasn’t hit these parts yet, we’re coal-fired and so on.

If true, it is a highly selective memory, as so many memories are, but the good news for cycling is that it has its place in this half-recalled landscape. 

I’ve included the whole (unflipped) image.  Another example here- https://www.craftyarts.co.uk/time-of-our-lives-4-x-500-piece-puzzle-p7011

[David9694]

Mars-Wrigley… argued that

Mars-Wrigley… argued that the ad had a “cinematic presentation” and was set in a “world that was absurd, fantastical and removed from reality”

[brooksby]

David9694 wrote:

Segwaying a bit on to Reform etc, there’s a case to be made that, in the Reform mind, time stops around the period depicted here.  

Common sense hangs in the air, men and women cheerily know their places, you can smoke in the pub, drink and drive home, no 20 mph signs or pot holes, you can buy a bag of 2 7/64″ screws and have change from a 1/-, you’re untroubled by that embarrassing Twitter post from 2022, no Pride or Black History Month flags to worry about, mass immigration hasn’t hit these parts yet, we’re coal-fired and so on.

If true, it is a highly selective memory, as so many memories are, but the good news for cycling is that it has its place in this half-recalled landscape. 

I’ve included the whole (unflipped) image.  Another example here- https://www.craftyarts.co.uk/time-of-our-lives-4-x-500-piece-puzzle-p7011

How did that midwife not ride over that dog?

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