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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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- Secret_squirrel 34 min 30 sec ago
Yup - there now. Probably content mgt systems refreshing...
- JoanneH 54 min 12 sec ago
I've just invested in a new bike and it's got 165mm cranks, which were both the crank length associated with the frame size but also what my bike...
- Rendel Harris 55 min 3 sec ago
As one had every reason to suspect, your video proves there is absolutely no justification in the police pursuing this action against you. Your ...
- Smidge69 1 hour 12 min ago
Im not at all happy with these. I have them in 34. The issue is that the rubber is sufficiently soft, tacky (and presumably therefore grippy) that...
- chrisonabike 1 hour 29 min ago
Amen, brother....
- Rendel Harris 1 hour 55 min ago
I really wish the powers that be would station a few security guards in the crowd at big events like the world championships and tell them to grab...
- bensynnock 2 hours 6 min ago
I think they're probably more happy with the 20mph limits and then just driving as fast as they like, as they do currently.
- ACyclingGuitarist 2 hours 43 min ago
I ride to and from Manchester from where I am (just out of Bolton) and the standard of driving you see is shocking, from both a cycling and driving...
- JRogerson 3 hours 19 min ago
I'd be cautious with the £10 per month TNT offering and your expectation of what you'll get. I suspect it will simply be access to the channels....
- The_Ewan 3 hours 30 min ago
If they also have the abilty to switch from dipped to 'full beam' they'd be interesting to know about....
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I think it reads that the bobby 'can't be sacked', I'm sure there's some HR reason for this but I'm jiggered if I know it.
I just came here to post exactly the same story. Anyone who refuses to name an offending driver should be brought to court and made to repeat their refusal under oath, which would then place them in contempt of court, which then would mean that they would be detained in prison until they decided to change their mind. What the hell does multimillionaire Noel Gallagher care about a £1000 fine and six points when he doesn't even drive?
Police in "making up rules to suit themselves results in little censure from colleagues and zero punishment" shock.
It is outrageous, just can't get surprised about this.
Am I reading this right? No charges against the driver, because he can't remember it, but the passenger is facing charges?!
It seems to support the "deny, deny, deny" ethos that runs rampant these days.
countered only by film, film, film
Officers were called to Clingoe Hill, Colchester, after reports a car had crashed into a tree.
An onlooker ran to the 19-year-old driver’s assistance, offering for him to borrow their mobile phone.
The driver then fled the scene with the borrowed phone, but he failed to outsmart police officers who tracked him down using the phone’s technology.
https://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/23536260.find-iphone-helps-essex-pol...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-65665113
This sounds bad and I hope all fully recover, but how many buses are going under low bridges?
Some pearl-clutching and sh*t-losing from my fellow inhabitants regarding *gasp* £2m allocated for active travel.
https://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/23534534.dorset-council-gets-2million-...
A drunk driver who caused a head-on collision while driving the wrong way along a motorway has been spared jail.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-65670368
Denny was also given a 20-month suspended prison sentence and banned from driving for 10 years at a sentencing hearing on Friday.
Quite a long ban, so doubtful if she will drive again.
"Red traffic lights in London could be switched off from 10pm until 7am if Sadiq Khan is sacked as Mayor Tory hopeful Dan Korski today vowed to impose a radical shake-up of London roads."
(From the sun, so no link will be provided. Twitter https://twitter.com/hoffman_noa/status/1660642057554108417)
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"Hi @DanielKorski - I sometimes cycle on main roads between 10pm and 7am, and sometimes cross them on foot. Any good tips as to how I could do that without traffic lights? Stay at home? Just hope for the best? Thanks."
Residents in Cardiff with their own take on creating a low traffic neighbourhood.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-65677472
https://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/news/bmw-abandoned-after-crash-on-oundle-road-in-peterborough-4152004
can't park there mate
https://twitter.com/cargobikeben/status/1660908368649760774?s=61&t=wlq_RPAZ5AFe3jBf_Xl1Jw
I'm glad this didn't turn out any worse
keep pushing that driver privilege, Cllr Toms
His voice cracking with emotion, Looe councillor Armand Toms told the Conservative cabinet:
"I'm going to challenge you all the way on this because you've hurt the people of Looe, you've hurt the businesses of Looe and that's why I'm here to make sure that the voice of Looe is heard. I'm shouting it as hard as I can because nobody else in the chamber seems to care about 5,300 people. You've done the same to Seaton and Downderry where you've put their charges up too... You don't care - you really don't."
Anger in council chamber at Cornwall's car parking increases
https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/anger-council-chamber-co...
Peterborough speeding driver crashes hired Lamborghini
Dashcam footage captured the moment a speeding driver crashed a Lamborghini he had hired on a busy city road.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-cambridgeshire-65687316
Strange comment on no insurance - that's part of the hire.
Train crashes into car in Liskeard with driver trapped inside
https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/train-crashes-car-liskea...
great going on that headline, guys .
Seafront changes to remain in town amid claims of 'coup d'etat' on council
Tensions spilled over in the first meeting since this month's local elections
https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/local-news/seafront-changes-remain-t...
let's hope community engagement doesn't turn out mean "we talked to two dozen whingeing drivers"
No hi viz
https://twitter.com/radkolumne/status/1661484536692350976
This will be interesting as to the sentence !
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65714508
A man has been arrested after a car crashed into the gates outside Downing Street, Met police said.
Not sure where else to put this, but this morning's car-queue was caused by..... a delivery of more cars.
'Catastrophic' car ban which sparked protests in Paignton could be scrapped
Traders said it turned the resort into a 'ghost town'
https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/catastrophic-car-ban-sparked-p...
It's not a spot I know; I can think of some quite old town centre pedestrianisations and I'm not convinced that the full-on approach is best. But cars will be crap where ever you allow them.
People are poorer/ have less disposable income (I won't go into why), we all know about on-line (although some trades don't seem to have worked out what they can do to fight back).
I think of some town centres where there's been some environmental enhancement in the centre, but the whole place is cut off from its surrounds by a combination of (i) the local river (ii) relief road / iffy underpasses (iii) string of iffy car parks - particularly after shop hours.
I just wonder whether allowing cars again here is going to be the shot in the arm the traders are imagining.
Must. Drive. Car.
What do you mean "don't go out, the weather is bad"? You mean don't drive my car today? I don't understand. Is it possible to not drive?
"I feel like I've been grassed up by the lawnmower nimbies."
This nonsense has made it into several newspapers, but I'm sticking with the local rag Cornwall News covering that well known West Country town Holme-next-the-Sea.
Boomer receives council letter. I felt the story was interesting because I thought motors were part of who we are now, no sense complaining, fella's got to do his job etc. He doesn't exactly say "I'm prepared to go to court over this", but he sounds pretty dug-in.
Gardener fuming after neighbour grassed him up to council over 'loud' lawn mower
https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/uk-world-news/gardener-fuming-after-ne...
More evidence of MPs ignoring traffic laws. It only makes the news because these particular MPs were caught trying to avoid punishment by getting the tax payer to pay the fine, but how many MPs get FPNs and it never makes the news?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-65736601
Also, how exactly does one "inadvertently" submit an expenses claim?
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/bmw-washed-out-sea-after-8477681
A39 crash sees car overturn into field near Wadebridge
https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/a39-crash-sees-car-overt...
This came up on my Facebook. Always had a slight soft spot for DEB 123 and 456 LOU, etc - easier to remember.
18 months of Drivers and their Problems -1,000 posts
Thank-you all contributors. I mean it's tough being a driver, the whole system is stacked against you, can't do this, mustn't do that can't park there and the expense: don't even. Mass car ownership and driving in the UK is in great shape and not remotely a policy with no future or one that stands to deprive a lot of people of theirs.
Keep ' em coming.
Edinburgh bus repeatedly rammed by motorist in bizarre video
Well, the bus wasn't wearing hi-viz or a helmet, nor was it using the bus lane that the car, all on its own, had paid millions to build.
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/edinburgh-bus-repeatedl...
It's all the speed limit's fault! Hey - how about just having a universal speed limit of 200 m.p.h., and then there would be no speeding offences? It's not as though drivers have any control over their speed, after all.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/05/30/20mph-speed-limit-speeding-o...
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