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We, the undersigned believe
We, the undersigned believe that one more lane will fix it
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/25269069.petition-calling-northern-bypass-launched-ipswich-mp/
Bus drives into the river at Eastleigh. Facebook comment – “How?!?”The driver of the college bus that drove into the River Itchen this morning has been branded a “hero” after he told an eyewitness that his “accelerator was jammed”.
Pedal confusion, perhaps? The brakes on that bus should be able to overcome the engine. And if it has a clutch, just push it in and let the engine rev away.
“if in doubt, both feet out” as no driver seems to be taught these days
Calls for clamping on road where strangers park on driveways“So, complaining neighbours, 🤨 try walking a mile🧐 in other people’s shoes.
Why should they walk a mile in other people’s shoes, when those people are so disinclined to walk (say) a few hundred yards that they’re happy to “trap others in their homes”?
OTOH perhaps this is a new version of the classic verse “But I say to you, do not resist the one who is evil. But if anyone parks on your driveway, offer to him your garden also”?
And forgive our trespasses,
As we forgive those who trespass against us
Wait, what an ambulance got
Wait, what an ambulance got held up??
Cars parked on King’s Road in Brighton cause traffic chaos
https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/25260983.cars-parked-kings-road-brighton-cause-traffic-chaos/
There, I fixed it for you
There, I fixed it for you
You will never convince me
You will never convince me that humans were meant to live like this (Nowhereville Utah)
Thought this up on my bike.
Thought this up on my bike. We’re all Co-pilot cartoonists now
why, oh why are the buses in
why, oh why are the buses in Herefordshire so terrible?
https://www.herefordtimes.com/news/25252751.inadequate-bus-services-herefordshire-towns/
[quote=ROOTminus1]It’s a 30mph on the bridge, and toll booth 4 is directly in line with the A38 eastbound lane from the tunnel, rather than the local traffic from Saltash. Medical episode is a possibility, but falling asleep with cruise control locked on is more likely. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y2vy151j7o%5B/quote%5DAgain, the BBC’s language is desperately avoiding the driver having agency. “The vehicle flipped” rather than the far more accurate “the driver flipped the vehicle”.
whatever caused the car to flip presumably came out of nowhere?
Drink-driver, 80, banned from
Drink-driver, 80, banned from roads after smashing into traffic lights in Huntingdon
I don’t think I could enjoy
I don’t think I could enjoy my day out if I had left a car somewhere like this. I guess these people are a lot tougher than me. I am curious about why this keeps on happening in B’mouth and whether the motivation is to get away for the day from some hot, car-ey housing estate.
Follow-up article in which
Follow-up article in which Revd Carbrain weighs-in
Calls for clamping on road where strangers park on driveways
However, Reverend David Southall, who lives on the road, wrote a letter in which he said: “There are more important things in the world than someone parking across my drive for 10 minutes to pick up their children.
“Yes, we should encourage walking to school as an option but we are in a car culture.
“So, complaining neighbours, 🤨 try walking a mile🧐 in other people’s shoes.
“See the stress that they may be under with work and school and all the other things life throws at us. And maybe do yourself some good, especially your blood pressure, by not sweating the small stuff.”
https://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/25259469.calls-clamping-road-strangers-park-driveways/
make the cyclists do x make
make the cyclists do x make the cyclists do y
Follow-up article here, in which one person claims that carpet man has a disabled badge.
https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/news-opinion/businessmans-horse-cart-commute-around-31902525
Boy, 12, hit by car on Dennis
Boy, 12, hit by car on Dennis Road in Weymouth – road closed
https://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/25247029.boy-12-hit-car-dennis-road-weymouth—road-closed/
This story came to my attention via Facebook. The boy’s mother is on there, which seemed to have put paid to the usual driver comments. According to her (and the lack of any praise in the article for the driver remaining at the scene) it’s a hit & run.
Third person, man in 60s, dies after crash on A36 at Knook
https://www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/25236644.third-person-man-60s-dies-crash-a36-knook/
In this instance, again initially via FB, there was a picture the car on the verge facing the “wrong” way, and looking IIRC for all the world like the driver had failed to negotiate a left-hand bend and has killed now 3 motor bikers. (That wasn’t going to stop the commenters saying “well, this can’t have been down to the driver…”)
edit – photo found
The shopkeeper, who discovered the loophole of using the horse and cart…… doesn’t understand what a ‘loophole’ is.
forced, I tells ya