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You’ve been watching too many
You’ve been watching too many movies.
Le Tour Télégraphique
Le Tour Télégraphique
I bet the Dutch underpasses
I bet the Dutch underpasses don’t flood.
EVERYBODY SUCKS AT DRIVING
EVERYBODY SUCKS AT DRIVING BUT ME
AN AUTO BIOGRAPHY
Satire, apparently
Satire, apparently
Report: Texting While Driving Okay If You Look Up Every Couple Seconds
“50-50 Rule”
New rule – there have to be someone’s pants in the picture, so I win.Dramatic pictures show chaos after car smashes into South West garden
The vehicle crashed through a wall
Driver crashes into parked cars and garden fences in Cambs
The car also hit a garage and washing line
Typical – hit the washing line, but missed washday.
Sometimes I forget that I’m a
Sometimes I forget that I’m a [checks notes] bike-head who wants to impose my views on all of us.
I can’t generate a link to the regional ITV story of the family further of the A36 trying to cross it on foot – and giving up. A spokesman for drivers said “don’t live near a main road, then” (probably).
Next up, I’ve added some
Next up, I’ve added some arrows to show the north-south (where I think the problem is worst) and then east-west crossing points from a cycling and pedestrian point of view.
If we start at the western end:
1. Scary roundabout for cyclists or iffy underpasses for peds (red arrow)
2. Blue arrow – no pavements for this road underpass – doable by bike
3. There is a narrow path following the river for cyclists and peds
4. As 1 above
5. high over bridge leading to older flat bridge over the railway cutting
6. Wordsworth Road was severed by the Churchill Way, so another ramped bridge instead
7. As 1 above; this is also the start of a driver rat-run to cut off this section of the ring road and the often slow Southampton Road. I’d mind the ring road slightly less if it actually worked!
8. underpass (yellow arrow); the road running alongside the Churchill Way also gets used as a rat run to avoid delays on the College roundabout
9. Milford Street (pink arrow) – a normal road; before that, Winchester Street (underpass) and then after (red arrow), St Anne Street, both severed; (perhaps its a bonus that as such they don’t carry through motor traffic any more)
10 lastly, Exeter Street with its underpasses, not sure what the thinking here is for cyclists at spots like this.
Having told off Brits for
Having told off Brits for making the Berlin Wall comparison, Salisbury has its own wall that has many of the same traits – built around the same time, the threat of death or injury if you don’t use a limited number of crossing points and most of said crossing points are themselves a bit of a subterranean gauntlet.
Firstly, here it is blended onto an older map of the city, showing how porous it was before.
https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=16.8&lat=51.07053&lon=-1.80370&layers=193&b=osm&o=64
I know it’s a different kettle of fish (or cargo)… but one for our occasional “boat crashes into building” (it’s for the pictures really)?OK… boat nearly crashes into building:
I saw that one and my first thought was “I hope they’ve checked for suspicious crates of grave-dirt…”
IFYKYK; I recommend catching the whole movie to place this scene in context.
https://youtu.be/vru2y9Q5Bs0?si=NaVWiF5AQE-Fgq1m
The fjord has a 20 kts speed
The fjord has a 20 kts speed limit, so it’s understandable that he was constantly checking his speedo / dozed off
OTOH perhaps most people in the UK have a blind spot? Just across the water to the west, you can still find literal walls dividing disputed areas in Britain…And those can be likened to the Berlin Wall.
As you poke around on the map
As you poke around on the map and zoom in, there are these little blue/white circles dotted about. Water pumps, it turns out. Kein Trinkwasser.
Edit : https://www.travelgumbo.com/berlin-s-historic-water-pumps/
As you poke around on the map and zoom in, there are these little blue/white circles dotted about. Water pumps, it turns out. Kein Trinkwasser.Those look great – why can’t we have them along our roads here?
Maybe there’s some houses that still don’t have a main supply or something? To answer your question : because we’d vandalise them. I remember arriving in Switzerland on my inter-railing trip in about 1990 – I didn’t believe the woman in the tourist office when she said to buy a tram ticket from a machine on the street.
Talking of things we don’t have:
We’ve a Passport to Pimlico
We’ve a Passport to Pimlico history of them here too when you dig into it.
https://wikishire.co.uk/map/#/base=colour_detached/centre=51.485,-0.964/zoom=12
