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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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When you get a ticket???
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In one sense (the most important one) evidence is irrelevant....
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That was the one (same name in Scotland). Haven't tried a Boris bike yet (or Ken/Khan-cycle ?) but my understanding is they're conceptually...
- wtjs 2 hours 54 min ago
It does say '12S' on the chainring! All we need now from this 'club member' is the picture of the actual crank break
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Well good morning Judge, yes I'm back again
I'm in trouble, so it's back to the pen
I found a car but I couldn't pay
I fell in love and I drove it away
I fell in love and I drove it away
I fell in love and I drove it away
I fell in love and I drove it away
He didn't do it, he wasn't there
He didn't want it, he wouldn't dare
I didn't do it, I wasn't there
I didn't want it, I wouldn't dare
That's a weird looking carpark they have themselves there...
One for wtjs. Not Lancashire and the reporter was an off duty police officer
Offender should have offended in Lancashire where the police show proper respect for people in large expensive fast cars.
https://upride.cc/incident/a15tjv_bmwm4_redlightpass/
Offence occurred at 16:19 on 14.9.24- driver of BMW M4 A15 TJV accelerated hard when the lights turned red. Reported to OpSnap Lancs at 17:30 the same day and given the code APL149463 (if LancsFilth could block me from using the site they would have done long ago, but they can't because it's national for all OpSnaps). This was the scene at the moment the lights changed to red, presumably the red wasn't established enough
Cars delay ambulances - shock
https://road.cc/content/forum/death-anecdote-exeter-ltn-303553 In which I argue that there's a lot of factors at play with ambulance transit, but clearly random individual blockages don't help matters.
Cabbies and burger van man - that's who we should be listening to.
I didn't quite understand how the speed limit, and for that matter the traffic lights, stopped his would-be customers from eating their food.
"Cranham Drive motorhome: dad clears drive of all vans":
Let's not be too hard on the fellow, maybe he was using it as bike shed.
I feel the comment by the parking company is most telling: ""Our evidence confirms that the vehicle overstayed the period paid for, and the Grace Period was exceeded; therefore, the Parking Charge was issued correctly."
So, he stayed longer than he paid for...got a few minutes additional free and then still wants more free. Twat. Pay for what you need and don't be expecting freebies.
I dislike people like him quite a lot!
Is the outrage that the council hasn't done something about this clearly dangerous bog?
Far too many in that article unable to reverse onto the driveway. Does no one know the highway code ?
I think he's a good example of why the parkcos have become so widespread among landowners operating car parks. I don't much care for the way in which they operate, but you can understand why they are brought in if he is what you're faced with.
What was the conversation with the CEO going to be?
Follow up story
'An overstay is an overstay' - backlash against £100 parking charge complaint at Harlyn Bay car park
David Lester has accused the parking management company of 'mugging people' and 'getting away with it like it's a tourism tax'
https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/news-opinion/an-overstay-overstay-back...
"Let's off road!"
The cock-up around the dropped kerbs isn't helpful; the pictures in the article illustrate that owners of several of these properties are driving across the pavement without a dropped kerb.
Yep, many are just parking on their front lawn, no dropped kerb, probably no planning permission to park there. I particularly liked this comment: "At least before you could reverse out with some more haste". I'm not sure anyone should be hastily reversing out onto a main road whilst crossing a footway!
Land Rover stuck in ancient Dartmoor bog sparks outrage
When dimwits commit offences that the authorities don't take seriously (KSI-ing cyclists, driving across fragile environments) the authorities 'have a word with them'. Having a word, words of advice, advice letters, community resolution etc. are all worthless non-penalties which encourage the offender to do it again. Unfortunately, the idea of prosecuting their fellow motor-enthusiasts fills such minds as the non-police can muster with horror, so they do anything they can to avoid such an activity.
The Bournemouth echo has an article on this too, if anybody wants to read about it without getting dirty daily mail cookies on their device.
None of the 'driveways' have dropped kerbs.
https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/24697990.driveways-blocked-counci...
100%
This image (and subtitle) should be filed away by road.cc and used on every story touching on why we can't afford active travel infra / normal working people can't afford bikes / there just isn't space for cycling / but the bike lobby is "taking over government" / can't have bike sheds in gardens because not in keeping / but cyclists don't follow rules (note no dropped kerb here) / there's no bias against cycling in the media etc.
Much of motornormativity in a single image.
Note as well how the council has felt that they need to put double yellow lines between the cycle lane and the main carriageway…
Furious residents claim they have been blocked in their driveways
Surely, the founder member of the hyper-junk press hasn't let its readers down by failing to include 'trapped in their homes'?! Naturally, I'm not intending to find out directly
Something something cost of living crisis inflation hard-working families needing to take the kids to school and do the shopping heating or eating or affording the finance on an Audi and a Tesla...
I can't work out this comment - genuine or sarcasm ?
"Demolish the lot and build a car park as the King Street one is regularly too full these days. . All those old buildings are never up to modern code. Death traps waiting to happen"
I'm giving this post 3 stars as the driver got away after 20 minutes.
See also
https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/24441055.jessica-berry-jailed-cau...
Older than the drivers (at least their mental age, hopefuly :-o )
Don't worry, this place is not for most of us (I would imagine - given price of real estate). The revolution won't start there. In fact I'd be surprised if it ever gets there.
"Everything is extortionate" in the town says former Londoner. Tourist town and apparently the "Airbnb capital of Kent" you say? Problem parking on "busy summer days" you say?
Google says the town is about 5 miles by 1.6 and flat - or 26 minutes by 12 minutes on a bike. Switching on Google's "cycle infra" layer - not much to see. One of the few "main" routes is a very narrow shared use path (footpath with sign) alongside the A2990!
Advance troop for the coming war?
Jeez, the Google reviews of that Geoffrey Miller makes for vomit inducing reading.
It's a public confessional for c**ts.
That looks wonderful. What the residents seem to want is longer dropped kerbs so the radius of turn can be larger, so they can drive it faster. Why might this not be such a great idea...?
Telegraph readers have a collective meltdown. Is there a max iq to read the telegraph?
"the all-too-powerful cycling lobby"!
These people are both malevolent and dim. You will recall the Torygraph fashion journalist declaring that she'd like to kill all cyclists. The 'cycling lobby' has achieved virtually no improvement in cycling safety over, say, the last 10 years, in Lancashire at least. The best we can say is that close-passing is not becoming less popular, and in Lancashire driving schools are even teaching it as the right thing to do:
https://upride.cc/incident/ej65pff_greenpass_closepass/
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