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reader letter
reader letter
“Residents want choice, not a future dictated solely by bicycles.”
https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/25279358.letter-cycling-isnt-answer-bcp/
If you can name the 3
If you can name the 3 (original) Rentaghost characters and sing the song then you ride a Mercian King of the Mountains with a Brooks B17, toe-clips, a Carradice saddlebag and your large flange wheels are 36h rear and 32h front.
l-r Mr Davenport (c18th gentleman), Bob Mumford (recently deceased ordinary bloke), Timothy Claypole (court jester)
🎶At your party, be a smartie just hire Rentaghost
We’ve got freaks and fools and beasts and ghouls
At Rentaghost 🎵
That’s as best I can do without looking it up.
A pair of Rene Herse tan walls for the bonus to anyone who can (i) describe their special powers and how these are activated and (ii) the name of their landlord.
5000 driver problems
5000 driver problems
One of the great contortions of Carbrain is to turn your privilege (as a car owner/user) into victimhood, nicely chronicled by Newsthump over on the Reform and their Problems channel. You’re paying out so much, you believe you were promised so much in return, but so often it just doesn’t work out. So please all think of the drivers whenever they’re stuck in a jam, get a fine/ points, get a scratch or can’t park.
There’s the raft of problems🧐 that drivers experience, and then there’s the multiple problems that car dominance presents for everyone else. Cycling only for us die-hards, buses infrequent and unreliable or non-existent, walking with the chicanery of underpasses, narrow / blocked pavements (or no pavement); sprawl, the unremitting noise and pollution; the constant threat of road violence hanging over all of us. I can’t think of another situation where the wealthy take such an obvious, massive and regular dump on the poor.
I watch children’s faces light up at quite old-fashioned outdoor things – a stream to dabble in, a tree to clamber over, sand castles and the rare joy of self-propulsion by bike where it is safe to do it. Nearly all bookended, sadly, by a car journey – this impoverishes us all. Don’t get me started on all the public health issues that are tumbling out now.
At 5000 posts, I don’t hold out much hope of a lot changing in the UK. Perhaps the roll-out in the years to come of the self-driving vehicle, that severs the direct connection between drivers/ owners and the power and mass that the car industry has persuaded them they need, but with which so many are out of their depth.
I’m sorry to report, contrary
I’m sorry to report, contrary to popular belief, that my baby does NOT take the morning train.
Loss of Worcestershire Parkway train causing ‘havoc’
A campaign has been launched to reinstate the 7.37am train from Worcestershire Parkway to Birmingham.
Train company Cross Country says the service was cut as part of a bid to create a more reliable timetable.
https://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/25280539.loss-worcestershire-parkway-train-causing-havoc/
No drivers involved – (sorry again).
The splendid Dr Hannah Fry explaining how using fluid dynamics can cool down a car in seconds instead of sitting in it sweltering for five minutes running the engine to get the aircon to cool it down (and responding with surprise and sometimes threats of violence to any passing cyclist who may request that the engine be turned off).I almost (but not quite) miss the old YouTube comments. This lot seem pretty demure, even the ones that need to tell the world that they fancy Hannah.
E.g.
[1980s pop song video]
comment 1 love this song!
comment 2 we used to dance to this
by the time you got to comment 7, the trolling of the artist and the commenter insults were in full swing, usually a death threat within about 15 comments.Is AI actually doing something useful here?
Woman’s car ‘written off’ at
Woman’s car ‘written off’ at dicey Devon junction
Locals are pleading for change
Sue said: “All we’re asking for is some signage warning drivers they need to stop and the lines repainted. If I had been a cyclist, horse rider or a pedestrian, the outcome would have been very different, indeed the area in my car which was hit, often has a grandchild sitting in their car seat at that very spot – not something I want to think about”.
https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/womans-car-written-off-dicey-10310546
Dicey, I tells ya.
Bus crashes into lamppost in
Bus crashes into lamppost in London Road, West Kingsdown
Delays after car crashes into lamppost on Four Elms Roundabout in Wainscott
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/medway/news/delays-after-car-hits-lamppost-on-busy-roundabout-326556/
Absolutely this! One thing to
Absolutely this! One thing to add is the point made in this Nick Tyrone piece – sorry Pops but if you ever were cool, that’s gone now. The struggle to remain relevant is real, I guess.
The truth about London: why the right is wrong on this one
Sure, we can go over some of the ways that London is worse than it was 25 years ago – I break that down in the video – but most of this comes down to one thing. And really, we all know what it is.
No, not racism. Sometimes that’s part of it, but only a little part. What it’s really about is simpler than that: London makes me feel old. You get these grumpy, aging gits who take the train in from Kent or Hertford or Essex, and they get to London and it’s full of busy city people whizzing around. The gits quickly find out that they have lost the pace for it out in the burbs. They once felt like London was for them – but they don’t any longer, so they reach for anything they cling onto, like the price of pints or how there are non-white faces around. Anything to avoid that agonising moment of self-realisation: I’m past it.
https://nicktyrone.substack.com/p/the-truth-about-london-why-the-right
Free parking in Newquay to
Free parking in Newquay to vanish as ‘common sense goes out of the window’
The work is mooted as part of the £57m transport project
KevinRidsdale says: “Common sense goes out the window in this country, shops are struggling enough as it is. Buying stuff online is annoying at the best of times and waiting for deliveries can be a nightmare. Trying to lug stuff on foot or using a bus and then lugging things from the bus stop or worse still teetering along on a wretched push bike trying to carry your shopping is not a good idea.”
https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/news-opinion/free-parking-newquay-vanish-common-10306979
Well Kevin, quite how your grandparents ever managed to raise your parents will forever be a mystery. You forgot to say it’s constantly raining and cold.
(this is a follow-up to an article originally in favourite funny.)
Five ways to encourage your
Five ways to encourage your child to play outside these summer holidays – and why it’s so good for them
<cough> cycling <ahem>
Two arrested after car
Two arrested after car crashes into telegraph pole and vehicles
https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/25275654.two-arrested-car-crashes-telegraph-pole-vehicles/
New Reform chairman tells
New Reform chairman tells insane story about time he saw a ghost
Come for the mad story, stay for Richard Madeley’s perfect reaction
New Reform chairman tells insane story about time he saw a ghost
Nothing to see here
https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1C6JKFCcyP/?mibextid=wwXIfr
Woman ‘trapped’ between car
Woman ‘trapped’ between car and telegraph pole in Kingswinford after ‘inconsiderate parking’
A woman needing lifting out of her mobility scooter in Kingswinford after getting ‘stuck’ between a car and telegraph pole
go around
its not in anyone’s way / I’ll happily move it if asked
its only for a minute / where am I supposed to leave it – you tell me
I’ll drink to that!
I’ll drink to that!
Cafe brain IF PARKING IS
Cafe brain IF PARKING IS REMOVED FOR CYCLE TRACKS I’LL LOSE BUSINESS. SEE, NONE OF MY CUSTOMERS ARE CYCLISTS!
bikeyface
Edit <cough>
Loss of free parking threatens ‘very fabric’ of Newquay’s community and high street say businesses
There’s concern over the proposed loss of free parking bays as Cornwall Council says there will be alternative parking provision – but it won’t be wholly free
