[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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[chrisonabike]

Council finally back down on

Council finally back down on a parking fine – and thank the complainant.  Apparently this is all because although someone parked on a street a private company had opened a nearby car park and people couldn’t figure out which machine the “pay at meter” sign was referring to ??

(I hesitate to suggest it’s on the drivers to work these things out … apparently this one has been raging on for a month or more – is that right?)

BBC wrote:

A woman has won a long-running battle over a parking fine after sharing her ordeal to TikTok under her alter-ego Zoë Bread.  Zoë Bread said her problems began because the ‘Pay At Machine’ sign on the street pointed to both a council-run car park and private one.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czdy3gj97y2o

[Hirsute]

It’s a violation of my human

It’s a violation of my human rights

Londoners charged £1,000 to park outside their home forced to ‘give up’ their cars

[Jogle]

NotNigel wrote:

NotNigel wrote:

Shouldn’t he be treated as just another motorist driving without a licence, he just happens to have a provisional but is driving by himself with no L plates? Did he receive any form of punishment or just the threat of one?

You would hope that it’s dealt with as driving without a licence and insurance with fines and points on the provisional licence. The article says that he could get 6 points for each offence (and he’s been caught twice for two offences). Does that mean that he’ll get 24 points on his provisional licence and be disqualified? In which case, I’m sure that that will have a huge impact as he’ll never drive while disqualified….. Oh wait, hardship! They can’t take away his licence as it will cause him unfair hardship

[NotNigel]

Shouldn’t he be treated as

Shouldn’t he be treated as just another motorist driving without a licence, he just happens to have a provisional but is driving by himself with no L plates? Did he receive any form of punishment or just the threat of one?

[Jogle]

Police seize learner driver’s
[b]Police seize learner driver’s car twice in one day[/b]

It’s just another sign of the war on motorists. You can’t even learn to drive without the police taking your car away, twice!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckg70yy4epjo

[David9694]

stonojnr wrote:

stonojnr wrote:

It’s the Star it’s not much more than a anagram for satire thesedays.

craps his wit

[Bungle_52]

Talking about road closures

Talking about road closures here’s one in Cheltenham. Reading the headline it looks like the road is closed to construct the cycle path but closer inpection reveals the real reason is to reinforce the bridge on the route. I doubt it needs reinforcing for bikes and pedestrians. Naturally nearly everyone you talk to is anti cycle path because of the closure.

https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/cheltenham-news/busy-road-near-cheltenham-racecourse-10139111

There were also traffic restrictions for subsidence on the road which the council claimed had to be fixed before the cycle path could be built.

https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/cheltenham-news/traffic-chaos-fears-collapsing-road-9663061

[stonojnr]

and you missed the local car

and you missed the local car park for local people to go for a walk bit 😀

every house round that immediate area has off road parking, the only people needing more parking are the 3,4,5 car families, who appear to be using the old swimming pool car park for their parking needs on google view, obviously the library next door just looked like the overflow part

[David9694]

Very clear message from Mike

Very clear message from Mike Graham on behalf of drivers – make closures 24/7 so there’s no confusion. 

[David9694]

Motoring Organisation puts

Motoring Organisation puts out misleading headline – SHOCK

(5% of) Drivers would pay private parking charges even if they’d done nothing wrong

(TIFIFY) 

The Parking (Code of Practice) Act 2019, was enacted in March 2019 yet no aspects of the Bill (you do mean Act, right?) have been implemented since Royal Assent. 

[…]

However, following a legal challenge from the private parking industry, the incoming rules were withdrawn in June 2022 with no government action since. In the meantime, the private parking sector have implemented their own code of practice, which The AA does not endorse.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/private-parking-code-of-practice

What I am confused about is whether it’s a nanny state who should leave law-abiding drivers alone, or that the state should get itself involved in private matters such as this.  

It also seems a bit of stretch to accuse the govt of inaction on this operator Code of Practice they are hankering after.

 

[David9694]

stonojnr wrote:

stonojnr wrote:

It’s the Star it’s not much more than a anagram for satire thesedays.

would love to know how the “OK if you’ve got visitors” thing got started 

[Hirsute]

Concrete growing Mike Graham

Concrete growing Mike Graham is very unhappy.

[stonojnr]

It’s the Star it’s not much
It’s the Star it’s not much more than a anagram for satire thesedays.

[David9694]

mdavidford wrote:

Hasn’t paid it’s road quacks either.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1ldnedvde9o

 ₣60 fine? Put it on my bill!

[Hirsute]

I’ll have £20 on lucky lane
I’ll have £20 on lucky lane Pegasus in the 2 15 race

[Author]

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