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Twitter followers will know
Twitter followers will know of the “clown” incident with Adam Bronkhorst and Cllr Vinson, Dover’s Portfolio Holder for Finance, Governance, Digital and Climate Change this week.
Anyway, the council leader is getting excitable now because Dover is “sacrificed” at times like this. Sometimes, the comments column gets it right: Dover voted for Brexit.
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/dover/news/weve-had-enough-265085/
(no buildings harmed AFAIK, but probably some hawthorn bushes adjoining the M20)
Having a normal one in Kent
Having a normal one in Kent
Car crashes into wall and bursts into flames on Prince Charles Avenue in Walderslade
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/medway/news/car-bursts-into-flames-after-crashing-into-wall-265097/
Winged it
Winged it
“this will confuse drivers”
“this will confuse drivers” being wheeled out by the RAC – no buildings harmed but some palpable fear around local authority powers and how terrible it is to be fined when innocent, and the money is “raked in.”
check this video out!
check this video out!
Terrified residents thought missile had hit Luton Road, Chatham, as stolen car crashed
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/medway/news/it-sounded-like-a-missile-coming-down-265036/
“….the elderly woman behind
“….the elderly woman behind the wheel does not remember anything from the incident.
The driver smashed the vehicle through the store but managed to survive without suffering any injuries.”
Salisbury Plain for-car free
Salisbury Plain for-car free gravel.
Circular route around to Pewsey.
Here’s Stilton
Here’s Stilton
Here’s Markyate
Here’s Markyate
A429 crash in Wiltshire left
A429 crash in Wiltshire left car stuck in bushes
Kent Police take action
Kent Police take action against boy racers at Tesco Extra in Gillingham
One woman, who did not want to be named, said: “You lay there at night listening to it and you worry a car is going to crash through the front of your house.https://www.kentonline.co.uk/medway/news/you-worry-a-car-is-going-to-crash-into-your-house-264426/
And while we’re in Kent, further proof (I think) that cars.destroy.everything:
Vulnerable people in Rainham and Sittingbourne warned to stay indoors because of poor air quality
I seen this reported for a number of areas this week. Merseyside, Greater Manchester and Yorkshire seem bad for particulate matter for example. Yet on this snap, rural Herefordshire has a doesn’t-quite-fit-the-narrative dose, and it’s also quite bad out at sea.
Anyone know more?
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/medway/news/vulnerable-people-warned-to-stay-indoors-264317/
Car smashes into wall in
Car smashes into wall in crash near Longham
someone’s shopping in the foreground…
https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/20017388.car-smashes-wall-crash-near-longham/
Driver (83) escapes injury
Driver (83) escapes injury after car smashes into hair salon’s window in Old Milton Road, New Milton
https://www.advertiserandtimes.co.uk/news/car-ploughs-into-new-milton-hair-salon-9245862/
(photo not remotely taken on a ‘phone by a driver.)
An absence of Covid, if the
An absence of Covid, if the alternative is to be public transport. Why the heck are we now drifting back into unnecessary office life?? The first 18 months, Covid seemed to happen to strangers – now it’s several people I know affected. People have internalised the idea of the loss to illness of a random week in your life, and I assume, the possibility of long Covid.
Not wishing to re-write the question, but is it really one that says “how high do pump prices have to go before people decide/are forced to make changes?” The 5p Fuel Tax concession is a gimmick and small beer but it’s still the wrong direction to go.
Cars are Kyotonite to buses – less passengers, less frequency, less reliable, and of course slower (for both drivers and bus passengers.) Covid is disrupting public transport again currently, which doesn’t help get people out of their cars. If you keep being left standing, watching everyone else go by, you’ll strive to get motorised. We don’t prioritise and invest in the experience of public transport users in anything like the way we often do with drivers.
“Traffic’s terrible” becomes a shared agony; drivers leave home earlier and earlier to beat it. Alternatives have to beat that consistently and comprehensively to effect change. It’s strange how drivers are happy to deal in £0000s for purchase, £000s for fuel and repair, whereas we deal in £000s for purchase and £00s for spares and repairs. Although we never hear the end of the £200 annual Road Tax of course.
We know the arguments around cycling – infrastructure and attitudes.Do I buy the “sunk costs” car argument, as in a narrow/ literal interpretation? Does it make that much difference to me in terms of replacement cost (I buy second-hand outright) if I keep my lightly used car (I”m getting towards being a Sunday driver these days!) 3, 4, or 5 years before changing it? I don’t feel the cost of a past purchase, once I’ve made it. I soon forget that 9-10 months of what I normally save up gets swallowed whole on a purchase that will lose 80-90% of its value (value: as in what I’ve paid out). Aren’t most of my motoring costs, including the time at which I’ll have the urge to trade in, mainly influenced by how many miles I do?
Our old friend, the Strood
Our old friend, the Strood metal bollard is in the news again (for some reason). Sounds to me like it continues to do a very necessary job:
“It is there to stop vehicles mounting the pavement to protect pedestrians but it has been blamed for causing several accidents, including one involving Gary’s son, Jonathan. He was on his way to work when his company car hit the bell, causing thousands of pounds of damage.”
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/medway/news/bollard-safety-fears-after-another-crash-264308/
For once, the article comments have it right.
