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Important details missing,
Important details missing, though – what’s the brew, and how was it?
What if the business is
What if the business is Coinstar?
it would be a shame if Gall ends up as a super domestique.Quite Galling, in fact.
Presumably it had strayed
Presumably it had strayed from the path.
The key thing to remember is that this race, and other amateur races are not running a rolling road closure.Ah – well that makes more sense then. I’m pretty sure the earlier version of the story I read suggested it was on closed roads, but it now says
The race is not on closed roads, as temporary road closure orders were not secured in time.Which makes this sound more like a story about an organisational screw-up somewhere than one that’s really about the 20mph limit.
I always thought the road
I always thought the road closures effectively suspended the rules of the road for the passage of the race. Certainly on the larger races, none of the vehicles seem to pay much attention to speed limits (or, for that matter, road markings, etc.).
Perhaps, though, as Chris suggests, it’s more about the peripheral logistics, outside of the rolling road closure.
I struggled to understand the
I struggled to understand the quotes on this – apparently the new speed limit is irrelevant and the deciding factor is whether the race can be run safely, and yet somehow the same route that was safe in previous years suddenly isn’t any more?
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So what you’re saying is you
So what you’re saying is you gave it up because you got two tyred with it?
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“You see people watching out of their windows and spying to see when cars leave in Albert Street and Victoria Street then rushing out and calling their friends to say: ‘I have got a space.’Is Whitstable too big to cycle around, then?
I just wondered where the car was parked before the other person drove off.
It wasn’t – people are circling for days, just waiting for their ‘spotter’ to call them with the good news.
I am admiring the superbly
I am admiring the superbly unnecessary precision of
More than 94.6% of journeys using the Dartford Crossing are paid correctly and on timethough.
That is a big political argument for never raising the dutyNot really – it’s an argument for paying care workers properly so that they can afford it.
Two men from the Council are booking into itMust be a very big sinkhole. How long are they staying?
“Tinderbox Britain” it says on the front of the Daily Mail todayTheir new advertising campaign? After all, kindling seems about as good a use for it as anything.
To be fair, they never said
To be fair, they never said it was a good example…
Point of pedantry order:
Point of
pedantryorder: issuing a travel alert doesn’t necessarily equate to telling you not to travel to the country. The advice just says to keep aware of what’s going on and avoid areas where there’s trouble.
