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Drivers and their problems
A new catch-all Tea Shop thread for those miscellaneous new stories that don't quite fit with parking, crashing into buildings or trapped/prisoners in their homes.
If you're new please join in and if you have questions pop them below and the forum regulars will answer as best we can.
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- Matthew Acton-Varian 2 sec ago
You don't have to be a cyclist to submit camera footage for Third Party reporting. Car dashcams catch stuff regularly too, so drivers should also...
- Dnnnnnn 16 min 11 sec ago
It surely isn't hard to collect a decent quantity of good data on before and after conditions around LTNs. I'd have thought that would lead to a...
- HoarseMann 35 min 31 sec ago
Couple are forced to sell new Land Rover at a £14,000 loss ONE MONTH after buying it after insurers cancelled their policy - and manufacturer won't...
- chrisonabike 40 min 11 sec ago
I once went to a cafe in Dundee for fruitcake but they were out of their eponymous product. Worse - on the way back we tried Abernethy but they...
- OldRidgeback 1 hour 20 min ago
Interesting, tho they only take narrow 20" slick tyres. I'd want to be able to use 1.75 Maxxis DTHs.
- Exup 3 hours 20 min ago
At least some justice is being done........
- BIRMINGHAMisaDUMP 3 hours 30 min ago
I imagine the Police treat bike theft as an insurance issue rather than a criminal issue. Can't blame them to be honest. The best thing is to use...
- David9694 3 hours 57 min ago
Police launch investigation into destruction of barber shop in Hythe High Street...
- Nick T 13 hours 19 min ago
They need to use some harder material for the cleat retention clip really, that's worn out long before any bearing has had a chance to fail on...
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Here's one for you - I wonder what the police did (hahaha)
https://youtu.be/0LXzm_8RWRQ?t=198
True- I've not seen more than 2 vehicles consecutively go through here. However, today a big HGV carrying a digger went through on red at speed. Awaiting upRide. Vehicle is G16 DHT, owned by David Hartley, Transport and Training of Lancaster, who operates a 'driving school' which apparently teaches people how to tow trailers (through red lights)
Don't meet me in St Louis.
Hahaha Samira, well that's nearly all we have for you tonight but we've just got time to bring you this video from Solihull.
No idea about the movie reference but KnowYourMeme.com says that the meme was based on a tweet by ABC News showing an aerial video of LA Thanksgiving traffic in 2017 (here).
That's why the Cambridge Guided Busway uses car traps instead. They don't need to be repaired after the car drives into it but it serves the same purpose.
https://www.huntspost.co.uk/news/23812451.st-ives-renewed-calls-address-...
So, someone drives to a shop many miles from home, parks correctly, causes no one any harm but comes out to find a rude word written on her car for no reason.... have I got that right?
If so, I'm calling it bull dropping. Unless of course it was mistaken identity.... which I doubt.
I'm glad our police are so active at removing this menace from our roads - imagine the carnage if there were 20 million of them in circulation.
Surely "threatening behaviour" - that's got to be a deadly weapon by definition?
Oh - wait - it's on wheels (sort of). As you were!
I'm with this guy:
'However Cllr Kevin Reynolds from Cambridgeshire County Council has little sympathy for the drivers who get stuck.
He said: “If people driving along that road cannot see a big hole in the ground in front of them then I would argue they wouldn’t be able to see a small child.
“I would question whether they should be behind the wheel at all...” '
A bit far too from home to be targeted; I noted the absence of a "look at my perefectly well parked car" picture.
She braked and swerved the push chair so the Magistrates will have to find another excuse to let the driver off.
And the American police wonder why people don't exactly trust them?
Woman spends an hour trying to find a space in Bath's car parks amid Christmas Market woes
She has vowed📢 never to drive into Bath again 📢 when the Christmas Market is running
"We normally take the train to Bath, but it was a particularly wet day and we were only planning to see the Christmas market, so we opted for the 30-minute drive over the hour door-to-door trip on the train."
https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/woman-spends-hour-tryi...
dO thay pEy roAD tax
Friends use flooded country lane to paddleboard as rain batters Somerset
Some villagers have described the lane as Backwell's new 'water park attraction'
https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/friends-use-flooded-co...
People can't even have a wee without Mr Loophole getting involved
Man 45 mins into a two hour car journey fined
https://metro.co.uk/2023/12/07/man-told-stop-driving-due-eyesight-jailed...
Remind me - why can't the GP or optometrist report someone to the DVLA?
drivers and their problems
Man slapped with £100 charge by 'prison compound' car parking company
He says the whole situation has made him "bloody livid" as he 🚨now refuses to give his money to private companies🚨 and has even written to his MP about it.
https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/man-slapped-100-charge-p...
About as tenuous a connection as it gets (no planning permission because no public transport) but it's that time of year where kids go to the not-at-all-creepy grotto, to meet a Roald Dahl style Santa and wife, probably never to return.
Santa facing eviction amid planning row with local council
Santa's grotto has been welcoming children for years
https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/regional-news/santa-facing-ev...
EDIT : Christmas "not cancelled"
https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/christmas-saved-fr...
Police investigating the death of a donkey foal following a hit-and-run on the B3078 Roger Penny Way near the junction with Longcross Plain Road seek witnesses
Launching an appeal for witnesses, police have revealed the offending vehicle left the scene...leaving a broken mirror and headlight glass on the carriageway. Due to the vehicle involved having a glass headlight rather than plastic lens, it is suspected that the vehicle involved is an older model.
https://www.advertiserandtimes.co.uk/news/older-vehicle-sought-in-donkey...
I know it's dark and all, but you're bound to notice a neighbour's car has a boshed in headlight and a wing mirror missing.
On it goes in Clevedon. So you've had your independent road safety audit, but that's not good enough either? Have you even got £375k. Remember this is just so a handful of local boomers can park up facing out to sea with their Daily Mail.
Clevedon seafront road latest as councillor says it's ‘not right’ to consider full reversal
Council officers have been asked to draw up a plan for how to implement major changes to the Clevedon seafront scheme
https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/clevedon-seafront-road...
New Forest traders say roadworks (cycleway) are ruining Christmas sales
https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/23974425.new-forest-traders-say-roadwor...
Roadworkers in Southampton set to have wear body-worn cameras
https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/23975904.roadworkers-southampton-set-we...
Wow, is this what we've come to now? Police, traffic wardens, parking attendants almost anyone who works in the public domain particularly where drivers are concerned. (+ idiot comments)
"It's great to drive, there's always a clear road ahead but behind a sea of traffic." "But folk don't tend to mind," he adds.
That's what it's like for anyone driving within the speed limit (apart from the folks not tending to mind). I wonder how he can tell...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crgpjpr35nko
ULEZ camera blown up with IED just hours after it was installed
https://metro.co.uk/2023/12/07/police-launch-investigation-ulez-camera-b...
Paris mayor plans to triple SUV parking tariffs to cut air pollution
‘It’s a form of social justice,’ says Anne Hidalgo of move to target richest drivers to tackle climate breakdown
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/08/paris-mayor-plans-to-tripl...
This seems to raise more questions than it answers, like what's the sequence from getting a ticket to court (collection of a debt) and to whatever tribunal (which hasn't pronounced yet.
Also, IME Council officers are regulations anoraks and if there is a 20 cm rule, as there is in this house let me tell you, they're usually well across it.
Anyway here's plucky Chris and his tiny road sign:
Driver has £60 parking fine revoked because sign was 6cm too small
Chris Burton has taken on his local council - and won
https://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/news/motoring/driver-60-parking-fine-rev...
sorry this has got nothing to do with cycling and just a passing reference to cars : "honk if you're a as full of hatred as we are!".
How do you get to the stage where you're prepared (superficially at least - you can bail out any time) to live like asylum seekers often live in order to oppose them.
RAF Scampton campaigners will 'fight to bitter end' despite council losing asylum seeker bid
The High Court ruled that the plans are not unlawful
https://www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/news/local-news/raf-scampton-campaign...
A new twist on the parkco fines here and driver victimhood evolves to meet the challenge:
“For them to restrict my freedom of movement to a car park even though I’m a paying customer is disgusting really. If I’d known I couldn’t even cross the road I wouldn't have done it. I certainly don’t want to be paying a £100 fine when I’ve spent money there."
Man parked at Gloucester Peel Centre hit with £100 fine 'for crossing the road to get cash out' despite shopping at Iceland's Food Warehouse and Burger King
https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/gloucester-news/man-parked-gl...
A bit of a role reversal. Cyclist blocking pavement with massive cargo bike.
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