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Car falls into Cambridgeshire
Car falls into Cambridgeshire guided busway next to ‘car trap’ sign
Net Zero initiatives like solar farms and battery farms have been a regular target of Reform. Deputy leader Richard Tice promised “Reform’s new councils like Lincolnshire will wage war against net stupid zero things. Developers and investors take note – it will cost you money.”Lincolnshire is one of those counties which are pretty close to sea level, isn’t it…? Hmm.
See also: large chunks of Cambridgeshire.
https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/local-news/map-shows-areas-cambs-could-27887396
Nation’s Automakers Running
Nation’s Automakers Running Out of Ways to Make Trucks More Deadly (Dumbrunner)
Here’s the Ortlieb Vario with
Here’s the Ortlieb Vario with its flap to cover whichever side you’re not using.
Showing the shoulder straps,
Showing the shoulder straps, the securing loop and rear “lamp bracket”
The promises Reform UK might
The promises Reform UK might struggle to keep after landslide Lincolnshire victories
The party has focused on national issues, but could struggle to change them on a local level
Net Zero initiatives like solar farms and battery farms have been a regular target of Reform. Deputy leader Richard Tice promised “Reform’s new councils like Lincolnshire will wage war against net stupid zero things. Developers and investors take note – it will cost you money.”
Mr Tice has suggested that the council could use judicial reviews, lawsuits and health and safety notices to stop any solar developments. Professor Defty said it was unclear how effective judicial reviews would be, as the previous Conservative government had “rolled back” their powers.
https://www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/news/local-news/promises-reform-uk-might-struggle-10170756?
Tice seems unnaturally animated about renewables.
Over-promising and under-delivering has long been a source of disillusionment (“they’re all the same”) among voters and this might be one of the reasons for Reform. Time will tell, I guess.
New mayor of Cambridgeshire
New mayor of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough vows to ‘end war on motorists’
Paul Bristow made four major changes on his first day in office
“Today I am ending the war on motorists, ensuring that your money is spent effectively and putting my manifesto priorities in place. We are getting Cambridgeshire and Peterborough moving.”
Mr Bristow also wrote to the East-West Rail Company to outline how a Cambridge light rail system could connect Cambourne to the city well before East-West Rail arrives. (I’m glad we’ve got people like Paul on board – those blinkered East West Rail dunderheads would never have thought of that.)
This seems, at least in the
This seems, at least in the headline, unusually duff barrack-room advice coming from Which?
Drivers told to stick parking tickets ‘straight in the bin’ – with one exception
Private parking firms are on track to issue another record number of fines. If you are caught out, it is important to know what to do
I’m old enough to remember
I’m old enough to remember the Cones Hotline – a number posted on motorway yellow signs for drivers (with good recall) to report all the cones.
My older brother says there was a song “help! The cones are taking over” (to the tune of Glory, Glory Hallelujah”?) I never did hear of it making one jot of difference to anything e.g. when Colin from Portsmouth reported 5 (or was it 10?) miles of cones on the M27.
Roadworks, most notably for gas, do seem to be upsetting drivers a lot on my patch – “why can’t we see anybody working??” Some even claim, from the comfort of their homes, that put in charge they’d sort it all out in half the time (etc). Do it at night, do it in the day, do it in the summer, do / don’t do it in the holidays, do it in the winter, etc.
It’s all the Council’s fault of course. And lo, it came to pass that Reform didst come and sort it all out – they intervened and were tough on lazy contractors. Except they weren’t because their approach is less state intervention and control (is this right? Ed) and fewer council workers to do all this, not more.
Looking at the Sky News feed
Looking at the Sky News feed today, it does feel like the political parties are on some kind of Channel 5 house swap show. Labour seem to have moved into the Conservatives’ old house, thinking it was near Reform, no-one quite knows where the Conservatives have gone. The Lib Dem’s are house hunting and Reform seem to be staying in a B&B while they decide what (if anything) they stand for.
As usual, pretty modest trade deals with faraway countries are being held up as major breakthroughs, ten years on from the Brexit ballot.
And we’re going to stop care homes recruiting from overseas because somehow all our lives will be better if we do this. If their adverts for were being answered by local recruits, they wouldn’t be doing the overseas stuff.
Political appeal is about distinctiveness: the lurch towards Reform is mainly driven by a “get tough” style and that catch-all, ‘common-sense’. In gracelessly trying to ape Reform in policy terms (is that really what the tea leaves are saying?) Labour is condemning itself to a single term. God knows what follows.
Our biggest MINI yetThat is bordering on oxymoronisticism. (Did I just make that up? I think I did!)
Introducing the new Brompton “700”
A lot of you have told us that you don’t like the little 16″ wheels on our current range of Bromptons. We’ve listened, and after years of patient research we are launching our new range, available in all the colours you love, but with a twist (etc)
fukawitribe wrote:
Eh ?I do wonder as to the relative sizes of these two two circles – like any car customer caring for climate?
Average Victorian Car.
Average Victorian Car.
So a bus can carry 12 people using the roadspace per person equivalent to one car.
6.5 bikes use the same road space as a car.
So enraged was I by this
So enraged was I by this blatant flaunting of the law that I slowed down, got my ‘phone and took a picture as I passed
Fury as council car targeting rule-breaking drivers parks on double-yellow lines
‘It’s one rule for one – and one rule for another’
https://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/news/stoke-on-trent-news/fury-council-car-targeting-rule-10163052
Ah, denigrating the meagre bits of traffic enforcement that there are – a subset of the poor little me / victimhood identity drivers like to believe in.
The road is for the grown-ups to drive their cars on , little Jimmy. Now off you pop to your little patch of mud.Plan to build cycle mud track in Crowle, near Worcester
https://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/25143631.plan-build-cycle-mud-track-crowle-near-worcester/
If you read the article the kids were making jumps by putting piles of mud on a road. I would think soft earth is a lot safer to fall off on than tarmac.
They we’re filling in the potholes. They just needed something to tamp it down.
Who said anything about falling off?