[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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[Hirsute]

I think new surfaces are
I think new surfaces are supposed to be permeable under building regs.
It looks awful anyway.

[brooksby]

David9694 wrote:

Another front garden sacrificed to cars. 

Remind me, again: how much floodwater is absorbed by a resin-sealed tarmacced driveway…? 

[David9694]

Another front garden

Another front garden sacrificed to cars. 

[brooksby]

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/park-street-businesses-say-15m-9918896

[David9694]

It’s a Brexit level of over

It’s a Brexit level of over-simplification the idea that car parking charges and retail prosperity are connected.

[andystow]

Okay, but one attacked a

Okay, but one attacked a single cyclist, the other delayed multiple drivers!

[Hirsute]

It’s standard to have a

It’s standard to have a suspended sentence due to full prisons.

Although exceptions are made for hardened criminals such as Gaie Delap who is a clear and present threat to society.

You can tell by the eyes.

[wtjs]

Yet another thug committing a

Yet another thug committing a severe unprovoked violent attack on a cyclist and receiving only a joke suspended prison sentence- why aren’t we surprised?

[stonojnr]

All councils are raising car
All councils are raising car park prices, as they should imo, but its amazing how worked up locals and local councillors get about it

https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/24910086.sam-murray-slams-ipswich-borough-councils-parking-fee-rise/

[stonojnr]

Normally you expect the
Normally you expect the driver to assault the cyclist during the initial road rage encounter, not this one, assaulted him the next day.

https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/24911503.mellis-man-sentenced-assaulting-cyclist-outside-home/

[David9694]

“This will kill tourism” fury

“This will kill tourism” fury as Devon price hikes confirmed

‘I don’t know why this is happening, it’s wrong’

https://www.devonlive.com/news/news-opinion/this-kill-tourism-fury-new-9906424?

This turns out to be new parking charges – lower for locals higher for visitors in the south hams of Devon. All somehow getting equated with a Tourist Tax.  

[David9694]

California Cross: Motorists

California Cross: Motorists issue stabbing threats over roadworks

At about 09:00 GMT on Wednesday, the force said it received reports of an assault on Church Lane.

A driver intentionally hit a road worker with their vehicle before fleeing the scene, the council said. The car’s registration number was given to the police.

On Tuesday, a different motorist threatened to stab a worker before speeding off while the crew were setting up traffic controls to close Nine Mile Ride. 

Later, another driver threatened to punch a worker, the council added.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-68309152

I wonder if anything was ever brought to court about any of this. 

[David9694]

but I thought cars meant

but I thought cars meant prosperity for shops and pubs, women able to walk the streets safely at night

Villagers ‘at a loss’ after Stonehenge tunnel axed

“Sometimes they [customers] look at traffic and say ‘it’s too dangerous, can’t get through’. It does start affecting the business,” he said.

“It’s a rat run way through away from the A303. We also get a lot of verbal abuse.”

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1dgzkp0n7wo#:~:text=People%20living%20in%20a%20village,the%20Stonehenge%20tunnel%20was%20scrapped.

[mdavidford]

chrisonabike wrote:

BBC reheats the “roundabout with painted designs” story (featured on road.cc a while back)

I’m pretty sure this is at least the third time the BBC have had a story on this – not sure why they keep forgetting that they’ve covered it.

[chrisonabike]

stonojnr wrote:

stonojnr wrote:

they did a thing over 10 years back called Bike & Go, that were hire bikes akin to Boris bikes, just alot heavier for some daft reason and the hiring system was way more convoluted, so you couldnt just Bike & Go.

That was the one (same name in Scotland). Haven’t tried a Boris bike yet (or Ken/Khan-cycle ?) but my understanding is they’re conceptually different *.

The “heavy” is because “public use bike” – they have to be a) “batteries included” eg. lights, lock built in etc. b) extra-robust to take the battering they’ll get, plus not desirable to steal. (Shared bikes are no good if trashed or stolen).

OTOH I think they used a design based on the Batavus Personal bike – which seemed on the heavy end even for a Dutch bike. Edinburgh ones did have 7 gears though – 6 more than the OV Fiets ones…

* As I understand it schemes like the London one are point to point – they *can* be good but are very costly to run (partly due to needing to relocate bikes). Also sometimes represent an effort to compensate for inadequate street level public transport. The Bike and Go one seems more like a (premature) attempt to import the Dutch OV Fiets public-transport-based system – basically last few miles *from* a station, and returning to the same one. This is ideal for places where a) cycling is normal and b) because of that you don’t want everyone taking their bike on the trains! So just cycle to the station, train or bus to destination station, then swipe your card and take a hire bike to the door. Reverse process to get back home.

I didn’t understand that until the scheme was on the way out.

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