[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]

They may take our Twixes, but

They may take our Twixes, but they can never take our freedom! 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y5ez8189lo

”the cars were shot driving at lawful speeds and any emulation would only reflect the legal and safe driving presented”.

[chrisonabike]

Drivers and our problems:

Drivers and our problems: company famous for lawyering its way round the rules often being proved right in its legal challenges and trying to avoid the inconvenience and expense of “employees” providing flexible opportunities for “partners” will get opportunity to make “we have no drivers as employees” come more than just legally true!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwynm4wl1j7o

I know lots of folks immediately say “great!  No dodgy human drivers!”  Well… somewhat – but we don’t have the numbers yet.  And not that they’d probably help much now if you complained about a driver … but once there are none, good luck getting any redress!

Again this is probably a wildly dystopian view of the future (will likely be moderated by usual human cock-up) but here’s what we could win:

[pockstone]

A bucolic image…but see the
A bucolic image…but see the ominous silhouetted pigeons, echoing Van Gogh’s ‘Wheatfield with crows.’, portents of doom…little Johnny, trading in his pram-wheeled bogie for an XR3 ten years hence. The little red pedal car morphs into an Audi Q8 in time for the kid’s graduation twenty years on, and come the 2020s the coachbuilt and hand painted Silver Cross perambulator is a Tern GSD scattering pedestrians, amongst them the long retired midwives whose successors are now only available behind a menu-driven NHS helpline (usable only on a smartphone running IOS 17 or later) A golden age indeed.

[David9694]

Now that’s what I call

Now that’s what I call illustrating a bike – accurate right down to its Woods valves.

All steel – as opposed to what, I sometimes wonder. A catchphrase that became a liability. 

[andystow]

How about a Raleigh?

How about a Raleigh?

[mdavidford]

Is this a relative? 

Is this a relative? 

[David9694]

No drivers, no problems, just

No drivers, no problems, just wanted to share this Call the Midwife style  jigsaw puzzle illustration. I like how it’s always a bucolic setting and a fine day in c1962. 

This one hurt my brain, so I’ve flipped it but the lady’s hand is still the same size as the radius of her wheels – what long forgotten model of roadster are we are we looking at here? 

[chrisonabike]

David9694 wrote:

David9694 wrote:

sharing this story as cyclists want us to go back to the horse & cart

Are you sure? I’d swear I’ve been reading articles like “Getting a cargo bike (Rover safety) allowed us to ditch our second hack”, “Embracing the carriage-free school run” and “Jenkins say their butchery has been booming since switching deliveries from four wheels (and four legs*) to 3 (and two)”.

* well, 6 altogether I guess.

And apparently the end- time is really upon us as the Amish embrace the eBike:

https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/a-modern-era-e-bikes-are-replacing-horse-and-buggy-for-some-amish-communities

[David9694]

Horse and cart a familiar

Horse and cart a familiar Southampton sight in Southampton

https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/25213685.horse-cart-familiar-southampton-sight-southampton/#gallery2

sharing this story as cyclists want us to go back to the horse & cart

[andystow]

This sort of thing can

This sort of thing can actually help with traffic as long as there’s a lot of through traffic, and they are built with absolutely no exits except for services. But that will never happen.

[David9694]

Pleased to announce my

Pleased to announce my inauguration as the King of Sheba. 

[David9694]

What Adults Lost When Kids

What Adults Lost When Kids Stopped Playing In The Street

https://tiranapost.al/english/stil-jete/fare-humben-te-rriturit-kur-femijet-pushuan-se-luajturi-ne-rruge-i533753
 

[chrisonabike]

David9694 wrote:

David9694 wrote:

One more lane will fix it 

Hereford western bypass work to start, council chief says

Well… on the one hand, more roads, more driving. And “quicker journeys, things and people van be less attached to a place”.

And of course places tend to expand to full the gaps inside the ring road. But maybe they’d expand anyway?

On the other – this is how eg. NL keeps lots of the traffic *out* of towns. Even for traffic *across* but within a town – eg. Groningen where if you want to cross the centre in a car you may need to go out to the ring road and all the way round.

That is of course a long way from “ban *all* the cars” … but so far the only thing widely demonstrated in practice. Or are there places which have managed to substitute public transport for most car use (without also leveraging cycling)? (Central London? OTOH lots of taxis there…) How long did that take though and what were costs?

[David9694]

One more lane will fix it 

One more lane will fix it 

Hereford western bypass work to start, council chief says

https://www.herefordtimes.com/news/25213154.hereford-western-bypass-work-start-council-chief-says/
 

[chrisonabike]

mdavidford wrote:

“Driver banned after going to supermarket”

Well quite – they just overlooked one or two technical highway code rules.  And all of their mistakes were made over a short period of time.  They were probably in a panic because of some earlier traumatic experiences with emergency sirens and lights.  It would be the height of vindictive pettiness to pillory them for each and every one of these, made before they even had chance to realise their error.

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