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The worst day for Exeter
The worst day for Exeter commuter traffic (it’s Wednesday)
Exeter has the nation’s second-largest travel-to-work population
Mr Knight acknowledged that different days of the week now offer distinct challenges to ensure sure buses are on time and not impacted by congestion.
He explained that keeping buses to schedule all week would require a bespoke timetable for each day, but stated that this was “impossible” operationally and is not something that the firm is considering, because passengers expect a Monday-to-Friday schedule, with different timetables at weekends.
interesting to hear a bit about the impact on buses of too many cars – another issue you have to deny if you’re a car driver
https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/worst-day-exeter-commuter-traffic-8838596
nice to see the Latest
nice to see the Latest Comments feature is back, over on the home page
edit – 5 minutes later I look again and it’s gone
Another “welcome to our world
Another “welcome to our world” to drivers from cyclists, difference here being that they seem to have made an arrest in relation to the theft of one crappy old Volvo.
Police constable Kate Schofield, of the Dorset Rural Crime Team, said: “This has been a particularly distressing and inconvenient time for the victim, who has lost the use of their day-to-day vehicle.
Poole family’s car suddenly
Poole family’s car suddenly bursts into flames on busy road
Welcome to cyclists’ world, Mr Driver. Aren’t we all meant to stop being such snowflakes, pick ourselves up, laugh it off and carry on?
He added: “I want them to compensate [us] for the financial losses to us and for the psychological trauma inflicted on my family and I.
https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/23860971.poole-familys-car-suddenly-bursts-flames-busy-road/
PS maybe avoid airport multi-storeys?
20 mph from over on the Wales
20 mph from over on the Wales thread and updated
will cyclists have to follow it?
Nope. Driver distraction. Variants include being overtaken by cyclists ?, something something, registration plates/ it’s not fair.
it’s not necessary
this usually has it that the traffic around here is so bad all the time so it won’t make any difference.
great, so you’ve no objection
drivers won’t obey it / the police won’t enforce it
sometimes admissions around driver behaviour are bundled into the attempted objection. I remind them of the speed cameras and vans – you know, the ones that are only there to rip drivers off. I think this shows drivers’ attitudes to existing limits
it will make pollution worse
Again, an admission of an existing problem is implicit here. Driver myth from pre-catalyser days.
It will make pollution somewhat less worse. Emissions are a coefficient of weight, speed/acceleration and engine size. I don’t notice cars getting any smaller or driving technique getting any better.
it will increase road danger
this is the constantly watching the speedo argument and another admission that cars are dangerous (don’t forget that we normally have to maintain the fiction that the 4-5 daily road deaths are all individual tragedies, etc)
cars can’t go at 20 mph without incurring damage to clutch and gears
straight up driver myth – possibly from bad old days of double de-clutching etc
“Typically, cars are most efficient at 45-50mph” – so don’t drive in town if fuel economy is really your concern. It’s not about your preferences – have you not grasped that by now?
https://www.rac.co.uk/drive/advice/how-to/fuel-saving-tips/
I can understand it outside schools
if you were that keen, you’d be doing it now and we might not be having this conversation.
Anything to contain and minimise.more control / it’s all a plot to get ‘us’ off the road/ 15 minute cities
Ah yes, when you’ve finally run out of road, there’s always the fantasy world of secret government plans and conspiracy bullshit.
Cannabis-filled van crashes
Cannabis-filled van crashes into Chingford house with man inside
An occupant in his early 60s was treated for shoc
https://www.essexlive.news/news/essex-news/cannabis-filled-van-crashes-chingford-8837207
Police target motorists using
Police target motorists using rush hour rat run
Brixham Police have issued a warning after receiving complaints the road was being used as a rat run
One said: “Perhaps, if we didn’t have continuous roadworks causing a lot of delays, people, particularly those of us in Brixham, wouldn’t have to be forced to try and look for ways of avoiding the traffic! Not excusing those who break the law but Torbay roads are very frustrating at the moment.”
https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/police-target-motorists-using-rush-8836821
hear me out…
hear me out…
Drivers told to travel with water bowl on seat to save fuel
https://www.hampshirechronicle.co.uk/news/23860817.drivers-told-travel-water-bowl-seat-save-fuel/
there, see no such a wacky idea
While driving at 20mph I was passed by 10 cyclists, 9 runners, 8 kids on their way to school, 7 mums carrying the shopping, 6 OAPs, 5 people on crutches, 4 amputees, 3 slugs, 2 snails and a sloth.…in a pear tree
Welcome to Trapped in our
Welcome to Trapped in our Homes.
I quite like it when drivers
I quite like it when drivers get to the “it’d be quicker to walk / catch the bus / ride a bike” stage, it’s progress, enlightenment.
Southampton Winchester Road:
Southampton Winchester Road: Woman ‘trapped inside’ car after crash
I’ve been overtaken by
I’ve been overtaken by runners, cyclists and a pet tortoise and the tortoise looked at me.
Probus residents trapped
Probus residents trapped after internet firm digs up road without warning
trapped, I tells ya!
work started in full swing on Saturday morning but residents were only provided with plastic ramps to drive over the cabling trenches in and out of their driveways at 2pm, meaning they had been stuck at home or unable to drive back to their house for most of the day
https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/probus-residents-trapped-after-internet-8833456
oh here we go drivers’ annual
oh here we go drivers’ annual Christmas present of free parking
Cheap parking perk for Torbay shoppers this Christmas
Drivers can pay for an hour and park all day in car parks around the Bay
…for the whole of December – come, you big spenders get the Torbay cash tills ringing
https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/cheap-parking-perk-torbay-shoppers-8834909
