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Cone rebellion’ in Devon
Cone rebellion’ in Devon ahead of controversial works
The improvement work is set to start on Tuesday but cones appeared in parking Bays on Monday
https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/cone-rebellion-devon-ahead-controversial-9308655
Drivers oppose to plan to
Drivers oppose to plan to introduce charges at Borrow Pit car park in Walmer
Those who use the car park now fear charging people will only drive visitors away and make parking harder on nearby roads outside people’s homes.
(thanks for the threat, guys)
you mean collect them on the
you mean collect them on the hoof like we do in CCIB?
Bath street ‘freed from the
Bath street ‘freed from the tyranny of the motor vehicle’ by LTN, say locals
‘People can linger on the pavement without fear of losing their head to debris bouncing off a speeding flatbed truck — and this very nearly did happen.’
https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/bath-street-freed-tyranny-motor-9305147
List of cars banned from
List of cars banned from Devon council car parks includes Audi, BMW and Kia
https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/list-cars-banned-devon-council-9303352
sorry, no, that’s not the reason
South Hampshire??
Lives “around the corner”,
Lives “around the corner”, but visited twice by car in one day. He also needs to stick with just the one story – “you can’t prove that’s my car” exiting after visit #2 ain’t helping.
Netley Abbey pensioner vows not to pay Tesco parking fine
https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/24341843.netley-abbey-pensioner-vows-not-pay-tesco-parking-fine/
‘Cut off’ Surrey town
‘Cut off’ Surrey town ‘becomes an island’ after road closures turn three minute journey into one hour
A Surrey mum has the traffic chaos is adding stress to children’s GCSE exam
Ellen Watkins, who has lived in Cobham for 30 years, said the onslaught of traffic chaos is making the much-loved town an unpleasant place to live. The mother of three even considered renting a property near her son’s school last year, so he could finish his A Levels without the stress of being late to his exams.
She drives a minibus of students from Cobham to the Chertsey school and said that even to get from Cobham High Street to the A3 takes around 40 minutes, instead of three.
https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/surrey-news/cut-off-surrey-town-becomes-29207257
edit: School o’clock screengrab – not seeing a problem outbound from Cobham?
Drivers and the problems
Drivers and their problems
Like many parents to have taken on the unpaid role as their children’s taxi service in the last 12 months, never have we clocked-up so many miles motoring across the south for one sporting fixture or another.
Did he write it so the
Did he write it so the signage could be correct?
Jacob Rees-Mogg calls Bath
Jacob Rees-Mogg calls Bath ‘anti-car’ in clash with city’s MP over LTNs
“It is time to back freedom and back the motorist.”
https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/jacob-rees-mogg-calls-bath-9301485Won’t it be nice when it’s JR-M, nobody/ ex-MP, or I may have to settle for opposition MP.
Managed to average 52 mph
Managed to average 52 mph over the past 6 days straight on my fave segment but a measley 47 today. My coach says I’m over-training.
This nonsense of “everything
This nonsense of “everything has to be 100% perfect or we’ll cry foul” and get let off needs to end.
Car-feee Bibury – sounds good
Car-free Bibury – sounds good to me. This seems to have been going on since October.
Cotswold villagers living in ‘England’s prettiest street’ cut off by road closure due to ‘dangerous wall’
Ambulance crews had to take one Arlington Row resident on a stretcher across the a pedestrian bridge in Bibury
Another resident said such a thing happened on Sunday. Paul Johnson said his neighbour was dashed 300 yards to an ambulance. “That’s three times,” he said. He also told the meeting that another neighbour has not been out of his home since the closure.
Gosh, what happens if you live on the 20th floor? I have literally no idea how people can have lived anywhere worked anywhere or got supplies before they all had cars.
My son’s stopped coming because of it. One you can’t park and two, you can’t access the row.” Mr Johnson said he has had no notification about the closure from the authorities nor an explanation about it.
“You can’t even get logs to your cottage which sounds a trivial thing,” he said. “I find it absolutely appalling. It’s been an absolute shambles.”
https://www.biburyparishcouncil.gov.uk/news/2023/10/awkward-hill-road-closure
Follow up story
Follow up story
‘An overstay is an overstay’ – backlash against £100 parking charge complaint at Harlyn Bay car park
David Lester has accused the parking management company of ‘mugging people’ and ‘getting away with it like it’s a tourism tax’
https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/news-opinion/an-overstay-overstay-backlash-against-9294833
Dangerous Cycling Law Ditched
Dangerous Cycling Law Ditched Due To U.K. Election Called For July
Briggs seems unphased by the company he’s now in with the people who have latched on to his cause for their own reasons, and he promises to be back.
There’s another grieving person, this time a father, who’s bit of legislation, introduced by Kim Leadbeater MP also presumably also lost called dr Ian greenwood. This was in relation to younger drivers.
Both he and Briggs are, in their different ways, brushing under the carpet the way drivers of all ages kill themselves, passengers, each other and vulnerable innocents in significant numbers every fucking month.
Perhaps that’s all too big a hill for greenwood to climb, understandable perhaps, but there’s something about both men’s side-steppping way of communicating that I don’t like. That’s notwithstanding that having graduated licensing for younger/ newly qualified drivers isn’t a help – but for me the implication that everyone else is fine thank-you and that’s all we need to be doing is too strong.