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Police search for five men
Police search for five men after Peugeot crashes into Jeep in a driveway in Oakfield Lane
Another instance where we can be assured that as the police have got the car it won’t take long to find the occupants, who will of course be fully insured and licenced and not remotely uninsured or unlicensed…
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/dartford/news/police-search-after-driveway-crash-244307/
I was irked by the “little
I was irked by the “little rash” comment – would it have been made if it had been a £50,000 car from Poland?
I say, I say, I say, how do
I say, I say, I say, how do you confuse an Audi driver?
Drivers have got a new
Drivers have got a new surface to park on. When’s the no pavement parking law coming in?
how does a driver get their
how does a driver get their car onto its side in a supermarket car park on a Saturday morning? No buildings harmed here, but just what?
https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/19175536.car-overturns-car-park-sainsburys-ferndown/
No sense of irony in Kent (?)
No sense of irony in Kent (?)
“Where the Dirty Habit pub is
“Where the Dirty Habit pub is, there are a lot of traffic problems because people come racing up and down the hill and crash into garden walls and parked cars virtually every other week.”
Road safety backlash after minibus ‘carrying children’ crashes into garden in Eyhorne Street, Hollingbourne
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/maidstone/news/school-minibus-careers-off-road-and-overturns-244138/
Pretty unpleasant at peak
Pretty unpleasant at peak times in late 2019, when I was using it to commute to one of the forts along the top. Views are pretty ok, though. Gets used as a rat run when the motorway/main roads are blocked.
Imagine we all paid £10 per
Imagine we all paid £10 per bike per year, (*looks round garage says “oooh, expensive”*) would it make a scrap of difference? There is no difference between smiffi’s argument and eradication.
The answer is “no” to appeasement – as I always say, these are people who are giving nothing back and don’t care. And let’s not try to justify ourselves in car parity terms, “I’ve got a car”, “I’ve got CUK membership” – we don’t need to, it’s irrelevant.
Driving is now such a random experience – everyone recalls the times they had a clear run, they sailed through no problem, which makes the many times that doesn’t happen all the more frustrating for them. The car adverts don’t help.
When I saw this one in print, I thought it had a distinctly glum air to it, like it was saying “you’re going to street park me and trail a wire across the pavement every night, aren’t you?” Still, feelgood vibes, eh?
I stand corrected – otherwise
I stand corrected – otherwise it would have been another part of my confession. I simply meant “as opposed to commuting“, or other bike journey sanctioned by Smiffi, the car enabler and friend. Mind you I did lean my bike against the base of a statue…
Put another way, huge swathes
Put another way, huge swathes of drivers with zero experience of cycling or cyclists. No-one to challenge them when they moan about cyclists – unless they try it on my village facebook, of course.
Mutual respect, you say? I’m
Mutual respect, you say? I’m all for the “why can’t we all get along?” piece – when drivers stop killing cyclists, pedestrians and, ideally each other.
Confession time, I had a couple of days off this week and went out for a morning cycle ride BOTH TIMES and for LEISURE. It already feels better to say that, but there’s more. I don’t have a device like yours, but I may have added ten seconds to the vital journeys of three vans and a car, which I realise are timed with great precision, every second counts. I plead in mitigation that the routes I take are calculated to minimise the impact of my riding, but I realise this does not go far enough. I deserved to be shouted at, to be run off the road. I submit myself for judgement.
Clearly, the time a few of
Clearly, the time a few of them take to “engage” with a cyclist suggests it’s not about their being in a hurry to get somewhere. We’re being “taught a lesson” in whatever it is.
When does the ban on H8
When does the ban on H8 number plates come in?
This came up on my Twitter
This came up on my Twitter feed. There’s a lot of vagina jokes like it’s 1991 or something, but you do wonder what the conversation and thought process is to buying the SUV car on offer. Watch the salesman’s face as he practises the art of turning whatever drivel the customer serves up into an opportunity.
We’ve now got a place in my village doing take away coffee and I’m starting to see people carrying coffee cups around like the lady has.