[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/

Topic

[David9694]

Drivers and their continual

Drivers and their continual state of confused outrage. 
 

[David9694]

Fowey pedestrianisation plan

Fowey pedestrianisation plan would ‘imprison residents in their own homes’ between June and August

“You can’t make people hostages in their own homes during the hours of 11am to 4pm; life doesn’t work like that,” a comment read.

Wait for it People still need supermarket deliveries, wait for it access to properties, disabled and elderly people there it is! need access to drop items to their homes, care in the community need access at all times.”

https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/fowey-pedestrianisation-plan-would-imprison-7482305

one here that didn’t make the article: URGENT Please please withdraw this proposal immediately. Unless you do so there will be very unpleasant comments directed at the individuals behind it. Fowey is a small place and the repercussions of this will last a long while. Withdraw, apologise and we can all move on. 

[ktache]

There are a lot of parking

There are a lot of parking stories on Wales online.

I particularly liked

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/its-bloody-welsh-car-parking-24757481

 

 

 

 

[David9694]

Village ‘cut off’ as 50 cars

Village ‘cut off’ as 50 cars park on double yellow lines near Welsh beauty spot

A tractor became stuck as it tried to squeeze past the cars on the narrow road, causing major disruption

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/village-cut-off-cars-park-24792112

 

[David9694]

Drivers having a normal one: 

Drivers having a normal one: 

Police descend on HGV and tractor face-off as traffic chaos continues amid 6-week road closure

“The farmer and all of us encounter this chaos on a daily basis, and do not deserve to receive abuse in the pursuit of our lawful business” (local resident who made the 999 call – “welcome to our world”, said a middle aged Lycra clad spokesman for all cyclists) 

https://www.wiltshirelive.co.uk/news/wiltshire-news/police-descend-hgv-tractor-face-7455510?int_source=nba

Also 

Cyclist being abused for refusing to use dangerous new cycle lane (December 2020) 

https://road.cc/content/news/cyclist-being-abused-refusing-use-new-cycle-lane-279599

[David9694]

Seagulls ruling the roost. 

Seagulls ruling the roost. 

[David9694]

If you’re a cabbie, you’ve

If you’re a cabbie, you’ve got a chip on each shoulder!

[chrisonabike]

brooksby wrote:

… In the evening we’d walk along the seafront and throw chips in the air without looking – no chip ever fell back to earth!

And that’s why I’ve got a chip on my shoulder about bloody students.

[brooksby]

I was at university in a

I was at university in a seaside town.  In the evening we’d walk along the seafront and throw chips in the air without looking – no chip ever fell back to earth!

[Simon_MacMichael]

This one’s a bit different

This one’s a bit different (although having had a bloody great big gull swoop down and nick my pie on the seafront in this part of the world a few years ago, I can sympathise with the locals here).

Seagulls ‘own this village’ as attacks leave people injured and trapped in homes

“If I could, I’d send my council tax to the seagulls because they own this village now.

https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/seagulls-own-village-attacks-leave-24629579

 

 

[David9694]

Winsley Road traffic chaos

Winsley Road traffic chaos continues as footage shows gridlock hell

drivers, eh?

https://www.wiltshirelive.co.uk/news/wiltshire-news/winsley-road-traffic-chaos-continues-7406121

[chrisonabike]

Sheer madness!  Now you won’t

Sheer madness!  Now you won’t be able to drive 100 yards to see friends, or down to the pub and back!

They have some legitimate points of course e.g. people assuming they can get through then getting stuck and the other main road becoming busier when it was already busy (network / regional transport issue).  But this is completely the stuff of “what happens when we prioritise motoring everywhere” anyway.

I like they found a few positive quotes (the pub – no change to trade) and “The road is not designed to take that many cars. It has been so much nicer since is has been closed.”

[David9694]

“It is horrible. I do not

“It is horrible. I do not know how we are going to keep coping with it. It is terrible getting out of the house and people cannot reach us. We have never had it this bad.”

So close…

https://www.kentonline.co.uk/medway/news/roadworks-nightmare-makes-me-feel-like-moving-271198/

[ktache]

Another one of those ROAD

Another one of those ROAD CLOSED where cyclists are actually meant to ignore it.

No additional signs for those without full local knowledge.

[David9694]

Follow up article 

Follow up article 

https://www.wiltshiretimes.co.uk/news/20587385.wiltshire-council-responds-b3108-winsley-problems/

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