[David9694]

Trapped, I tells ya. 

So whether it’s due to a cycling event, roadworks, or sheer volume, this is the place for your local newspaper stories, stories of car culture.  Also includes “no-one can possibly reach my business” because of a closure/jam. I’ll start:

Sandbanks residents ‘trapped’ due to gridlock traffic

“At peak times it can take an hour or more to get off Sandbanks, imagine adding an extra hour to every journey you make.”

https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/20223334.sandbanks-residents-trapped-due-gridlock-traffic/

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[David9694]

If that was a Welsh speaking

If that was a Welsh speaking petrol pump doing £1.35/litre, drivers would figure it out with no issues. 

[David9694]

Fowey masterplan: Plans to

Fowey masterplan: Plans to pedestrianise Cornish town centre in summer ditched

I guess the elderly and disabled of Fowey can rest easy in their beds now.

As with all these things, a grown-up is eventually going to have to sort it out and it will have gotten worse by the the time they do.

https://www.itv.com/news/westcountry/2022-10-19/plans-to-pedestrianise-cornish-town-centre-in-summer-ditched

[David9694]

This is the moment when

This is the moment when drivers reach the “huh, cyclists want us to go back to the horse & cart” stage. 

[David9694]

Brixham traders warn of

Brixham traders warn of ‘catastrophe’ if ring road closes for four months

Eyes down for a Kubler Ross Grief Cycle: “Children will be unable to get to school. Nurses will be unable to get between home and Torbay hospital. Staff will be unable to commute into our members’ businesses.

https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/brixham-traders-warn-catastrophe-ring-7810868

[chrisonabike]

David9694 wrote:

Do you mean Even More Hard-Pressed? The car, the economic Alamo.

Yup – and if the current government were swapped for Labour I doubt there’d be much change because “fairness” – hard-working-class motorists (and the squeezed middle or whatever terms are current) need some of this active travel cash diverting to them / some continuing subsidy for driving because otherwise we’d just be giving an unfair advantage to those country squires / members from the opposite benches who can still afford the Bentley.

[David9694]

No chance of any cycle access

No chance of any cycle access while all this is going on, I don’t suppose?

How can there be an increase in the number of hard-pressed motorists when all are already?

Do you mean Even More Hard-Pressed? The car, the economic Alamo.

Jeremy Hunt doesn’t seem to be expecting to win any popularity contests with the autumn statement. 

Bournemouth Council are “cancelling Christmas” (not yet, but I can feel it coming now we’ve had Remembrance Day; we’re actually at the “slap in the face for traders” stage) by not giving drivers ? their annual free parking boost that they’ve come to expect. 

[chrisonabike]

But because of all the
But because of all the traffic no one will cycle, ergo nothing can change. Anyone saying different is a dreamer, that’s not how the world is etc.

Maybe with enough tax and recession we’ll even see a few more people using the few bits of substandard cycle infra? I remain optimistic but suspect an increase in hard-pressed motorists, growth in angry cash cows and more aggrieved people finding cyclists in “their” space. (Since we’ve been set up to fight over scraps I have some sympathy for the latter)

[David9694]

Resident thinks Brixham road

Resident thinks Brixham road closure will be disastrous for these eight reasons

Kate Graeme-Cook, former holiday let landlord, weighs-in albeit a little late in the day.

If only there was some other means of moving goods and people in and out of Brixham. 

https://www.devonlive.com/news/news-opinion/resident-thinks-brixham-road-closure-7808584

[chrisonabike]

David9694 wrote:

NO VEHICULAR ACCESS AT ALL ?!

Top Halloween trolling – for bonus maybe the council should propose a replacement shuttle service (like they have some places) to get them from the end of the lane to their doors?  It probably would no longer be “in keeping” with our “traditional countryside” now though, unless it was inside a horse transporter…

[brooksby]

I’d forgotten Bikeyface

I’d forgotten Bikeyface 🙂

[David9694]

chrisonatrike wrote:

Looks ideal for people who just jump in the car to go everywhere.  Definitely a rural location.

Ah – bit more detail and this starts to seem more reasonable.  Looking on streetview it’s certain that there will be periods – possibly extended – of no vehicular access at all? for some and maybe even literally no access at times?  The current road is a single lane between hedgebanks.

I still don’t quite understand what’s intended but presumably they’ve forced the developer to add a footpath here where none was before.  That looks reasonable at that location.  This lane also looks like an ideal candidate for filtered permeability at one end.  Bet that would enrage also!

In general here in Edinburgh it seems the system allows (big) developments with apparently precious little considerations of transport.  Yes I know they do officially… but some new ones don’t seem to fit well with public transport and there’s certainly nothing for active transport.  So we’re still building in car dependency.  And that’s around a major urban area.  Particular pains are that long-used access links are handed to developers – or quiet link roads will have traffic volumes hugely increased.  Some potential traffic free routes – decades in planning – can then become impossible as the council sells the land off / permits development in the way.

[David9694]

Residents in estate behind

Residents in estate behind Truro College ‘trapped in their homes’ due to student parking

‘It is not fair for residents to have to face a daily struggle to access their own properties, not having refuse collected or missing appointments due to inconsiderate parking’

https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/residents-estate-behind-truro-college-7720245

[chrisonabike]

Ah – bit more detail and this

Looks ideal for people who just jump in the car to go everywhere.  Definitely a rural location.

Ah – bit more detail and this starts to seem more reasonable.  Looking on streetview it’s certain that there will be periods – possibly extended – of no vehicular access at all for some and maybe even literally no access at times?  The current road is a single lane between hedgebanks.

I still don’t quite understand what’s intended but presumably they’ve forced the developer to add a footpath here where none was before.  That looks reasonable at that location.  This lane also looks like an ideal candidate for filtered permeability at one end.  Bet that would enrage also!

In general here in Edinburgh it seems the system allows (big) developments with apparently precious little considerations of transport.  Yes I know they do officially… but some new ones don’t seem to fit well with public transport and there’s certainly nothing for active transport.  So we’re still building in car dependency.  And that’s around a major urban area.  Particular pains are that long-used access links are handed to developers – or quiet link roads will have traffic volumes hugely increased.  Some potential traffic free routes – decades in planning – can then become impossible as the council sells the land off / permits development in the way.

[ktache]

The council say that access

The council say that access will remain for residents.

???

[David9694]

Villagers ‘incandescent with

Villagers ‘incandescent with rage’ over five month road closure

Congresbury Residents Action Group (CRAG) chairman Mary Short said the road closure was ‘totally unreasonable’ She said: “There are people with limited mobility, elderly folk and parents with young children who will become virtual prisoners in their homes if they cannot use their cars.

https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/villagers-incandescent-rage-over-five-7627965

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