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Cars drive almost everyone
Cars drive almost everyone into transport poverty, one way or another.
Too poor? You don’t even get to play. Suck it up.
Low/middle income? Sacrifice too much of your money to sit in queues
middle income? sit in queues or wfh
high income – private jet/ helicopter or chauffeur while you sit in the queues you couldn’t avoid
to function at any level, the system relies on the poorest being completely exluded and then does next to nothing to help them
Scene of devastation after
Scene of devastation after car ploughs into Stoke shop
I Wis Framed owner Kevin Irving has been left counting the cost of the incident
https://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/news/stoke-on-trent-news/live-car-smashes-stoke-shop-9068380
“I’m not against cycling-“
“I’m not against cycling-“
“that’s great, let’s get this built-“
“but-“
“there’s a but?”
Cycle route branded ‘absolutely ridiculous’ ahead of work starting on crucial section
There’s anger but also positivity as the Longlevens section will see work along the B4063
Oxfordshire 20mph speed
Oxfordshire 20mph speed limits introduced in four new areas
New 20mph speed limits are to be introduced in four areas of Oxfordshire despite concerns the county will “soon become like North Korea”.
https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/24075925.oxfordshire-20mph-speed-limits-introduced-four-new-areas/
Residents evacuated after
Residents evacuated after driver crashes into home – chapeau!
Historic bridge damaged,
Historic bridge damaged, dangerous and closed until further notice after vehicles smash into it
The road across the bridge could be closed for months following the collisions
https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/historic-bridge-damaged-dangerous-closed-9066994
How bullshit travels
How bullshit travels
Victory for our great city’
Victory for our great city’ as clean air zones to be binned
More than 1,100 people signed the petition, which also opposed the introduction of the “15-minute-city”
yet here you are Council leader Jane Ashworth 5-6 years on doing nothing to protect your residents from pollution.
“The situation is fairly clear. Since 2018, when the Conservative Government told the city to clean up its pollution problems, there has been agreement that yes things need to change, and yes the decisions that are made and plans that are put forward need to come forward from within our city.
“Time after time, you will see a situation where something may be imposed by central Government that doesn’t quite get it in terms of the way life works and traffic flows in our city. It’s our intention to make sure that Government does not impose upon us a solution that doesn’t meet our needs.
“We are working frequently with external contractors, with people who understand better than we do, the issues around polution in our city and we’re trying to come up with something which says we do not need a CAZ (Clean Air Zone). What we need instead is some traffic changes around a specific area in Fenton.
https://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/news/stoke-on-trent-news/mp-jonathan-gullis-takes-petition-9061435
Clearly you live near St Ives
Clearly you live near St Ives.
One for the wait ’til he
One for the wait ’til he hears about cars folder
Exeter man fears ‘silent assassin’ e-bikes in city centre
Mark Tyler, a former ITV Westcountry presenter, says he has narrowly missed being hit by an e-bike in Exeter on at least two occasions
“It’s down to us to ensure that we don’t step out unless we’re absolutely convinced that everything’s ok but sometimes you see a bike in the distance and before you know it, it’s on top of you.”
https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/exeter-man-fears-silent-assassin-9065014
Gosh, Mike nearly hit on two occasions you say – let’s you and me go for a bike ride, and see how long it takes us to notch up two “nearly hits”
Get this a lot from the
Get this a lot from the driver accounts: “it’s about control…they want us out of our cars by 2030…vague reference to whatever conspiracy theory”.
The police phoned: “We found
The police phoned: “We found the man who burgled your house / shot your cat / torched your car – turns out he’d had a difficult few weeks, so we let him off with a caution”
You be forgiven for thinking
You could be forgiven for thinking that as the the headline has now been changed to:
Grieving pensioner fined outside Poundland on Gillingham Business Park as daughter lay dying in hospital
This commenter encapsulates much of it:
Mouthy wrote:
28/01/2024 12:16
I sympathise with your situation but you cause yourself more upset by not moving on. I was fined for speeding through lack of concentration, after visiting my terminally ill mother and sister in two different wards of the same hospital. Obviously my mind was on other things but that was no defence. Not putting this behind you will sully your memories of your daughter.
Families call for new
Families call for new crossing at accident hotspot where boy racers ‘bomb down’
Stoke-on-Trent City Council has ‘identified a need for intervention’ on Turnhurst Road
https://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/news/stoke-on-trent-news/families-call-new-crossing-packmoor-9000903
A story that could be told and retold a thousand times over.
Call for £1 toll in traffic
Call for £1 toll in traffic-swamped Devon town
One letter writer has called for a £1 toll to be introduced to anyone driving into Newton Abbot
https://www.devonlive.com/news/news-opinion/call-1-toll-traffic-swamped-9055246