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Traffic engineers – from the
Traffic engineers – from the US
What if the business is Coinstar?i remember that from pre-pandemic times when I still carried and used cash and a couple of times had saved up months worth of copper coins, and fed them into a machine at Tesco’s. It was quite satisfying to collect £55. I wonder if they’re a useful way for the s/markets to maintain the float in their tills, or if the operator just trundles round every week to empty their machines. They stop a %tage of course.
Now there’s one passenger ferry I occasionally use that’s cash only; the local fish & chip shop has been up ’til recently, but is changing hands at present.
Someone (two people, IIRC) has to empty each machine daily, securely take the contents somewhere to be counted and banked – the pro cash crowd show no insight into what an overhead all that is.In Birmingham I’ve only ever seen it with one person emptying a machine. Generally they’re half laying down on the ground with their arm going up from the bottom of the machine through a broken panel…..
I wonder whether, now that most people will use an app or pay by card, it’s actually cheaper to allow the cash to be stolen than it is to go around and collect it
Any concentration of cash is a PITA in a business, whatever way you come at it.
RAC head of policy Simon Williams …Are you sure you didn’t read this story on Newsthump?
ISWYDT:
Man who wrote ‘happy to discuss’ at bottom of email really hoping he doesn’t have to discuss
Howard Cox of FairFuelUK
Howard Cox of FairFuelUK warns of impact of Rachel Reeves’ plans to hike up petrol costs by 10p a litre and pay-per-mile new road tax scheme
Not sure if this is Howard’s usual paranoia being reported as fact / news: “While no details have yet been released, taxation rates are expected to be a combination of how many miles travelled annually and a vehicle’s emissions.” I wonder how much doing a Lejog would cost you?
RAC head of policy Simon Williams said: “We’ve reached the conclusion the Chancellor has no option but to put fuel duty back up to 58p a litre in October’s Budget.
“She knows the 5p discount is losing the Treasury £2bn a year. She also knows drivers were overcharged by a staggering £1.6bn last year according to the Competition and Markets Authority’s recent report.”
Can’t park there, mate
Can’t park there, mate
https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/local-news/plane-crashes-a419-gloucestershire-inches-9513927
Thanks. At 340 pages, I
Thanks. At 340 pages, I assume this is a bit more broad-ranging than the title might immediately suggest? (“Roads are for cars”/ “roads were built for cars”, etc is of course a so what? / non-argument.)
Looks like there’s some copies floating around, but I’ve just used my last 10s chain : https://www.amazon.co.uk/Roads-Were-Not-Built-Cars/dp/1610916891
I’d be interested in hearing
I’d be interested in hearing more on this book. We’re in Drivers and their Problems territory here.
You had to create the narrative that car mishaps were all “accidents” and treat accordingly, and always trivialise driving offences. It helps if traffic law enforcement is ridiculed for this reason.
Queues of cars forming have to become a state problem for the state to solve – editing the environment is framed as improvement and progress. The framing of public transport as old, slow, humdrum and inefficient must be a useful underpinning.
I wonder if it’s just luck that air pollution made by ICEs is odourless and generally invisible, or if they had to work at that – if cars generated a smell of rotten eggs, it might have made a difference. You have to work to suppress ideas around a link between air pollution from ICE and respiratory disease.
I wonder things like the so-called Blade Runners are the result of an experiment gone wrong?
People’s Stockholm Syndrome becomes apparent in things like “don’t live near a main road then; don’t live near a school”.
Part of the tragedy of the commons story is the passage of time, and lack of memory – I pass village bus shelters that stand as a memorial to a long gone services; you have to find timetables from the 1970s on EBay to see what has been lost.
Old photographs (often put about by the “wasn’t Britain great before it got invaded?” crowd), Post war Buildings (e.g. schools) with hardly any parking provision, “50 years ago” local newspaper features of a village fete sack race and childhood obesity practically absent. Life was happily lived before mass car ownership.
I think it’s progress in
I think it’s progress in relation to having to carry coinage around to make up whatever random amount is required. When you’re looking at over a fiver, that’s a lot of £1 coins to be hauling.
Someone (two people, IIRC) has to empty each machine daily, securely take the contents somewhere to be counted and banked – the pro cash crowd show no insight into what an overhead all that is.
“There’s only two types of
“There’s only two types of bird that fly at night – that’s owls and bats”
Cannabis user claimed she was ‘trying to avoid a large bird’ after being caught drug driving slowly along Halling High Street
Prosecutor James Nichols told the court Gregory was pulled over on March 10.
He added: “It was just after midnight, in the early hours of the Sunday morning and she was stopped because of the slow manner of her driving.
They were also told she was of previous good character and was driving in that manner as she was trying to avoid a large bird that had been on the road.
Stockholm Syndrome, between
Stockholm Syndrome, between people and their cars, one of the American commentators was saying on X Twitter today. Active travel must be such a very lonely path to tread over there.
You have to solve the Bonnie & Clyde problem to get people to give up their cars, “the I will, if you will” conundrum. Let’s see if I can remember – Bonnie & Clyde stole a car and used it to rob a bank. Police are holding them in separate cells. Everyone knows the jail terms.
The police have enough evidence to convict both of them for the car theft – that’s a jail term of 5 years each. The penalty for the robbery is 15 years each, but the police will need a confession from one or both parties as they don’t have enough evidence. However, if one informs on the other (who stays silent) the reward is that person goes free and the other one gets 20 years in jail.
Put another way, everyone in the country lives in town A and they all work at factory B 10 miles away. The bus service is pretty good and takes 20 minutes.
10% of the workers decide to get cars, which halves the journey time for them. Another 10% see this and also get cars – it’s a little more than 10 minutes, but still better than the bus. Another 10% get cars and the bus timetable is amended to take 25 minutes and is slightly less frequent. Another 10% make the shift to cars – it’s quicker for them than the bus.
When we get to the 50% mark, the car journey is now 20 minutes – older workers remember the bus used to take this amount of time. But the bus is nudging half an hour these days, so another 10% get cars. Older workers again remark that it’s all very well, but everyone used to get to work in 20 minutes back in the day, and that even the drivers cannot match this now. But that memory has long faded.
Seems to be sorted, thanks
Seems to be sorted, thanks all.
Three metallic clangs were heard as I got past 70 psi.
Presumably it had strayed from the path.“Jerusalem’s wall has been broken down, and its gates have been burned down.’ When I heard these things, I sat down and wept” (Nehemiah 1:3-4).
Thanks. Do you think the 1
Thanks. Do you think the 1/6th of the circumference area that is “in” is the problem, or the 5/6ths that are “out”?
The problem area is around 4
The problem area is around 10 o’clock / top left on this inverted picture, pretty much next to the Condor decal. As I say, it makes for a very lumpy ride. I’ve got some 700 x30 tyres lying around, but I’m not sure they’d clear the SKS mudguards.
