[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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[HLaB]

In the words of someone else,

In the words of someone else, He wasn’t drunk and he wasn’t speeding, I cant see what the problem was!

[HLaB]

So you were going too fast

So you were going too fast for the conditions but 10secs before we told you so.  Sit back and wait for the media to blow it up into a substantial and concertive attack on motorists :-/ 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c70rk80p9eqo

[the little onion]

The road in front of me was

The road in front of me was blocked by a big parade, and it made me angry that there were other people on the road that was just for me, so I drove into it, injuring over a hundred people and now I have to spend the next 21 years in jail.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c208zyv8r4wo

 

Peak motor normativity.

[kinderje]

I assume you live in Yeovil

I assume you live in Yeovil as well. As much as I don’t want to agree with Tim Northcott and would prefer people to use buses or walk unfortunately it is not going to happen. Over the years the council has done their best to ruin the town centre – a refresh that was supposed to finish years ago but is still ongoing, business rates constantly being hiked. Princes Street is, as described, full of independents and they would be damaged by the loss of the North Lane car park.

They want to build flats on the mentioned car parks but that would increase traffic and snarl up the hospital roundabout even more. All of this is, of course, not helped by having the town by-pass running therough the centre!!! 

[David9694]

Yeovil businesses ‘will not

Yeovil businesses ‘will not survive’ if council builds on town centre car parks

‘Let me be direct: if these two car parks are redeveloped, many of our businesses will not survive’

But Tim Northcott, who runs OfficeWyse on Princes Street, has warned that buildings on the car parks would hurt the already fragile town centre, urging the council to “protect what is working”.

https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/yeovil-businesses-will-not-survive-10703389

Let me be direct – I’m claiming to share concerns about a fragile town centre while putting obstacles in the way of progress by defending my own personal municipal car park.  I’ll even enlist the elderly and disabled people just popping out for a ream of A4 and and Epsom cartridge. 

Poor old Yeovil – sliced-up by the A30 throughway and  like so many places, it has been hollowed-out by the rise on-line shopping.  There is so much derilction and unused former retail space, something really needs to be done to re-purpose it.  

The place will continue to be crappy if you carry on putting cars first. 

[David9694]

An otherwise humdrum account

An otherwise humdrum account of parking charges going up is lifted by a prize quote. 

Dover District Council cabinet confirms car park charge increases in Deal and Sandwich

“We’re getting to a point in this country where we’ve not got enough money in our pockets, and cars are very expensive to run.”

https://www.kentonline.co.uk/deal/news/this-hits-residents-our-high-streets-and-the-visitor-econo-333951/

[David9694]

Christmas lights display at

Christmas lights display at home in Colonel’s Lane, Boughton-under-Blean could end after traffic complaints

“Could I ask people to try not to come at peak times – Friday, Saturday and Sunday 4.30pm to 7.30pm – as the turnout has been more than we could ever imagine and the waiting times can be 1.5 hours, which is not ideal for the little ones, and the traffic is quite overwhelming.

“Our neighbours and village mean a lot to us, and the last thing we want or even need, to be truthful, is complaints.

 https://www.kentonline.co.uk/faversham/news/kent-s-most-festive-house-display-could-end-after-traffic-c-333945/

1.5 hours of waiting? I don’t have a magic wand for this, but the village hall has a decent-sized car park and it’s a ten minute walk away.

[andystow]

David9694 wrote:

If your road safety campaign doesn’t follow this basic rule, you don’t really care about road safety that much.

(#SimpleRules No. 341)

(by Heroes for Zero Brussels)

Urban Cycling Institute 

The giant protective hand is a good start, but there are much better ideas in these videos.

[David9694]

Gosh Parliament, could this

Gosh Parliament, could this broken model of service and “employment” be the inevitable result of your crap decision making around priviatising postal deliveries? 

[wtjs]

Wow! Two lying ‘I’m a cyclist
Frustrated residents hit out over ‘waste of money’ roadworks
Wow! Two lying ‘I’m a cyclist myself’s in quick succession, both shown to be pretty thick by the use of the same old ‘any money spent on provision for cycling is a waste of money’ but I’m a …

[HLaB]

mispelt RACing CyclIST?

mispelt RACing CyclIST?

[chrisonabike]

David9694 wrote:

David9694 wrote:

Tribunal overturns motorists ‘School Streets’ fine in Richmond Road, Gillingham over inadequate signage

Good lawyering! Presumably “I was so distracted by kids all over the road that I couldn’t see the technically incorrect signs you put up to tell people ‘there is a school here so don’t drive like a t***’ “?

[David9694]

“Prolific” cyclist spotted in

“Prolific” cyclist spotted in South Gloucestershire 

Frustrated residents hit out over ‘waste of money’ roadworks

Judging by Facebook comments, there could be some awkward moments at the drop-in council meeting

https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/regional-news/frustrated-residents-hit-out-over-10701591

[David9694]

Plucky motorist defends the

Plucky motorist defends the rights of the Little Man against the the Big Bad Wolf council – yes, he’s preserved his right to, er, drive past a primary school when it’s tipping out.  Quite the achievement. 

Tribunal overturns motorists ‘School Streets’ fine in Richmond Road, Gillingham over inadequate signage

In response, a Medway Council spokesman said: “We have successfully defended a number of appeals at this location, and this is the first in which an adjudicator has found against us on signage grounds. ..we remain satisfied that signage at this site is adequate and compliant with the relevant legal standards.”

https://www.kentonline.co.uk/medway/news/how-a-motorist-fought-a-council-s-traffic-ban-fine-and-won-333851/

[chrisonabike]

mdavidford wrote:

mdavidford wrote:

Parliament wants an investigation into how courier exploitation is causing people’s parcels to go missing:

You’re right – it’s the usual “convenience (of some) at the expense of the commons” – just like mass motoring itself!

(Given many delivery companies and the online marketplaces they serve have on occasion taken a keen interest in the … wellbeing of our politicians, I am skeptical about this delivering anything).

Winners: shareholders, those higher up the company. Some more convenience for all the buyers. But … perhaps this just means we buy more stuff? And it’s great until it goes missing – 7% apparently for this lot compared with 4% average!

Collateral damage: reduced road safety (vans and LGVs have the worst deaths per mile rating per PACTS statistics ), crap parking. It’s “sweat the assets” (only they’re not assets because “not employees”) – workers are only incentivised to play the system and certainly not see any bigger picture. Unless they want to get less than minimum wage…

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