[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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[Tom_77]

Hampshire police use blue

Hampshire police use blue lights for swan in Hot Fuzz chase

Sadly the image accompanying the article is “A generic photo of a swan” and not the actual bird in question.

[essexian]

Before I had even said this

Before I had even said this persons home address, my wife said upon hearing the story: “He’s from Loggerheads isn’t he….”

 

[David9694]

Random driver account:

Random driver account: “cyclists should be made to wear hi viz like workers do on a building site”.

me : Oh really? Would that be as part of a H&S regime, so a duty to establish a safe system of work, carrry out risk assessments, train staff on safety procedures, carry out regular assessments as work progresses, report incidents, penalties for employers who do not comply?

driver – tumbleweed 

I guess that one will come around again in the autumn. So compare and contrast the usual response to road incidents with the handling of this very sad tale dating from 2016. 

Wilts & Berks Canal Trust volunteer unlawfully killed

paywall, I’m finding, but I can’t recall there being a verdict of unlawful killing for a cyclist from a Coroner

https://www.gazetteandherald.co.uk/news/25044160.wilts-berks-canal-trust-volunteer-unlawfully-killed/

Prosecution, £30,000 fine 

https://press.hse.gov.uk/2024/06/24/charitable-trust-fined-following-death-of-volunteer/

Prevention of deaths report 

“put more guidance for vol orgs on your website”, I guess that’s no so far off “improve the road markings” 

Peter Konitzer: Prevention of Future Deaths Report

[David9694]

leedorney wrote:

leedorney wrote:

Whenever I drive, which isn’t much, I often wonder why other seem to just not care at all, it’s like so sense and appreciation for any other human being goes out the proverbial window..

check under ‘W’for “What cars do to people” 

[leedorney]

Whenever I drive, which isn’t
Whenever I drive, which isn’t much, I often wonder why other seem to just not care at all, it’s like so sense and appreciation for any other human being goes out the proverbial window..

[David9694]

Drivers react to Brinkworth

Drivers react to Brinkworth Road Lidl works causing delays

Speaking anonymously to the Swindon Advertiser, one driver added: “It does feel like we’ve just become a roadwork-riddled town now, they’re all the time.

“It’s a miracle anyone gets anywhere.”

https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/25047051.drivers-react-brinkworth-road-lidl-works-causing-delays/

[David9694]

How much people paid for

How much people paid for ‘free parking’ in Hereford

Yet drivers still made 1,607 payments during the afternoon, both by card and cash at the machines and via the council’s newly introduced JustPark app, totalling £5,510.60 – an average of £3.43 a time.

https://www.herefordtimes.com/news/25047521.much-people-paid-free-parking-hereford/

I liked this, the BID lay on free parking one Saturday afternoon, but drivers dutifully pay up anyway. 

Cars aren’t going to solve your problems, guys. 

[David9694]

Motorist Mike demands 40p

Motorist Mike demands 40p back after overcharged on new £11m ‘prison’ car park

He’s not the first driver to be overcharged

https://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/news/stoke-on-trent-news/motorist-mike-demands-40p-back-10056811?int_source=nba

He’s at Loggerheads with the council over his 40p 

[mdavidford]

Looking at that, I wonder if

Looking at that, I wonder if they were actually just making a very bad job of reversing around the corner and cut across the ramp.

[BikingBud]

They were trying to avoid the

They were trying to avoid the overhanging windows!!

Seems like somebody else has scraped the top of the wall before.

[brooksby]

OnYerBike wrote:

It’s not very clear from the main photo, but on the other side of the wall is a driveway, where they could have reasonably been trying to park.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/NaVRSJeH6NYiPG6j6

Ah, OK.

I think they missed…

[Steve K]

David9694 wrote:

Active travel schemes are ‘squeezing out motorists in favour of cyclists’

Go Rochdale!

This story has now appeared on my Facebook feed.  There are the normal shitshow comments, but also an encouraging number of comments that are pro the schemes.

[OnYerBike]

It’s not very clear from the

It’s not very clear from the main photo, but on the other side of the wall is a driveway, where they could have reasonably been trying to park.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/NaVRSJeH6NYiPG6j6

[David9694]

“Car is king” I’m often told,

“Car is king” I’m often told, but it appears to be scared of gaining new subjects.

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/17dWMWGR2J/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Here’s the article itself if you want to swerve the FB comments. 

https://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/25033689.wokingham-objections-420-homes-plan-spencers-wood/

 

[brooksby]

David9694 wrote:

Parking fail as car left teetering on top of stone wall

Oh dear

https://www.devonlive.com/news/local-news/parking-fail-car-left-teetering-10050858

It raises the question of why (or whether) the driver was even trying to park there; but for me, the scariest comment is by the taxi driver who says it’ll be “a real problem” later in the day when that road gets busy. Why on earth is a road which looks like that EVER busy? That’s surely a massive failure of town/traffic planning??

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