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An article about the effects
An article about the effects of sprawl and how driving can’t upscale itself is as good as anything to get Monday started. Mrs Northern here can’t quite decide if the village of Wateringbury has no local facilities to offer the occupants or if there are loads nearby.
It’s true that the nearby train line doesn’t serve London, but the “no evening services” is a plain lie. I’m guessing the three hour traffic queues are also a bit of a lie. (Regular bus services, I might add, to Mainston and Tunbridge Wells.) I did wonder if Mrs N was an anti car campaigner “… we are in a highly polluted area. The Wateringbury crossroads is one of the most polluted in Kent”, but it turns out the horses are evicted when the village needs extra parking for events.
Someone, quite possibly a villager, must own/have owned the land – a lot of what will happen here is down to their decisions – funny how they barely get mentioned.
And always with the ambulances, eh? “remember, the A26 is a vital through route for emergency ambulances travelling to Pembury Hospital.” (20 miles away at Tunbridge Wells – or you might want to try Maidstone, 13 miles away.
Protect Our Medway Valley Group to fight Croudace over application for 66 homes in Wateringbury
Musgrove Park Hospital
Musgrove Park Hospital disruption after car crashes into wall
https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/live-musgrove-park-hospital-patients-10628798?
A friend of mine saw a
A friend of mine saw a cyclist run a red light 2 years ago (which I regularly re-tell as “cyclists are always running red lights”)
Bad driver racks up 50 points on licence in 16 days as speed camera set up
And another six points have just been addedDavid Ellis, mitigating, said that Preston’s poor driving record was the result of his relationship with drinking, adding that he has since turned his life around.
He said: “This offence was committed towards the end of his disqualification. He was enjoying an evening with friends. One of the group was a pregnant female, who began feeling unwell. He drove her home in a misguided attempt to be gallant. He now accepts that was foolish.
Prosecutor Charlotte Morgan told North Staffordshire Justice Centre that Preston had a staggering 50 points on his licence (“Staggering” being the operative word)
https://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/news/stoke-on-trent-news/bad-driver-racks-up-50-10618462
Follow up story
Follow up story
Oxfordshire Costa Coffee reopens six months after car crash
https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/25606982.oxfordshire-costa-reopens-six-months-car-crashed-store/
i wonder what became of the staff who were there at the time of the incident.
Hirsute wrote:
’Car’ #Nodriverinvolvedvs
Man in hospital after cyclist pushed him off pavement
The victim needed surgery for his injuries
https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/man-hospital-after-cyclist-pushed-10617088?
What you won’t read
the pedestrian was all in black and was hopping on and off the pavement and didn’t wait for the green man at a crossing. The cyclist needed the toilet/ was rushing to hospital with a coughing fit
Video if you turn over to ITV
Video if you turn over to ITV
Unoccupied runaway lorry crashes into parked cars and house in South Gloucestershire
“cyclists should pay pay road
“cyclists should pay pay road tax” latest
Moment Lamborghini seized as police say driver’s ‘not above the law’
It was loaded on to a recovery truck in North Stafforshire this afternoon
A slight variance in this
A slight variance in this column, we’ve got a real live Christmas is Cancelled story here:
https://www.theargus.co.uk/comments/25598921/ The Facebook version of this is even funnier, if you can find it. The reality: Someone has waited ’til now to drag the town of Battle’s Christmas lights out from the town council basement / shipping container, PAT tested them and failed them. No Christmas lights for Battle (scene of the UK’s biggest sea-borne migrant invasion, etc) this year, it seems.
see also: https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/25598804.christmas-lights-spring-brighton-city-centre/ – all is well in Brighton
It’s often hard to know what’s for real on social media like the apparent kerfuffle over Tesco’s “Merry” mince pies. Some of these people seem to carry so much gullible “what’s the world coming to?” anger around, it’s really not hard to come up with a potential trigger E.g. I hear Bristol City Council are going to rename this local park as Willoughby* Park to be more inclusive and provide time out and reflection space to help with people’s mental heath, help with climate change, etc
* one of the so-called Colston four acquitted of toppling the statue
The good news is that the
The good news is that the letter of the speed limit law doesn’t apply to cyclists. I get it though, drivers have a real thing about being “overtaken by cyclists” – but given all that everyone has to suck up from drivers every day, I do wonder why kowtow to this sentiment.
20mph limit creating other
20mph limit creating other issues as dangerous as speeding
“It has created tailgating, lack of indicating, being overtaken by cycles?, all just as dangerous as speeding.”???
https://www.southwalesargus.co.uk/news/25599122.20mph-limit-creating-issues-dangerous-speeding/
Found this looking to see if there had been any further developments arising from this (non-) story – nothing comes up on any local outlets:
It was initially on Wales Online, but just four usual suspect national outlets still have it.
can relate, Giulio
can relate, Giulio
We’re nearly at the end of
We’re nearly at the end of this “trapped in the village” episode.
County Council Highways portfolio holder said “I represented Elkstone as the county councillor until earlier this year and this stretch of road was one that residents regularly raised with me, so I’m really pleased that it’s now being properly resurfaced as part of our commitment to fix our roads,” – so as always it’s:
Drivers – fix the road / Also drivers – not like that
This work does seem to genuinely cut off motor traffic for 12 hours a day – hot tarmac, they say – how is that different?
I grope around in memory – I can see the residential road I grew up on and the big machine coming and burning/ scraping off the surface and being left all rough with ramps around the manholes for a few days and then the new initially lovely and smooth surface being applied. I don’t remember any access problems.
In Gloucestershire, I trust the process – someone who knows a lot more about these things them me has planned this – I just wonder what’s changed access wise and in this case could they not do say north of Elkstone and then south?
The medical episode that
The medical episode that never even was.
“I was feeling ill, but I kept on going.”
So the good news from Oxford
So the good news from Oxford is that the motion to close down the new congestion charge was roundly defeated.
I would imagine most of what was said in its favour was indeed laughable (see story below) – feigned offence is all they’ve got.
I still worry that the thing is unwieldy/over-complex because there are too many exemptions, permits etc requiring a lot of admin and public-facing IT (which has also been criticised, unsurprisingly).
You can’t exempt every variant of “how is a teacher/nurse (with the usual mysterious health condition that means they can’t bus or cycle, but are fine to drive) from Oxford, from Abingdon meant to drop off their children at school, pick up a relative (probably dying) from hospital, drop their partner at the train station, visit a horse with colic and collect materials for a hospital charity/ school project on fridges all before quarter to nine?”
It’s worth remembering that car ownership in Oxford is 66% of households, so I hope the 33% continue to benefit from this and make their voices heard.
https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/25596662.claims-transport-chief-laughed-congestion-charge-debate/
https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/25593326.concerns-oxford-station-access-congestion-charge/
Porsch drivers and their
Porsch drivers and their problems (again)
‘Absolutely shocking’ Cambridgeshire road causes £2k damage to car
The road had already been reported to the council
“Even when my wife drives over it, she has to slow down from 50mph to 35mph. Even then the car will dip down and it gets thrown about.”?