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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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- ubercurmudgeon 3 hours 22 min ago
I had three different cyclocross bikes before the marketing departments at various bicycle companies came up with the "gravel" category. All of...
- Sredlums 4 hours 6 min ago
Maybe the UK could try to reach some sort of agreement with the EU over things like international trade and such.
- David9694 4 hours 36 min ago
Cumbria County Council was a 1974 creation, merging the of old County Borough of Carlisle, and counties of Cumberland, and Westmorland - in which...
- Backladder 4 hours 48 min ago
If BC want to insist on barriers then they should have their own stock loaded on a truck that they can rent out to organisers at reasonable cost,...
- Miller 5 hours 18 min ago
Well, there's lifetime bans and there's lifetime bans. Banning an 88 year old don't impress me much.
- Gkam84 8 hours 23 min ago
I think that is why blind eyes have been turned in the UK, internationally aswell, with things like the Redhook crits, there were many licensed...
- mdavidford 9 hours 32 min ago
Ahem - other esporters(?) might be rather surprised to hear that the UCI has taken over their events - I think that would be the Cycling Esports...
- Bungle_52 9 hours 41 min ago
I wonder how he got to the game?
- OldRidgeback 9 hours 44 min ago
You'd need some good wet weather gear for that ride too.
- OnYerBike 12 hours 8 min ago
It seems to me that the most likely explanation is that whoever provided that quote fails to grasp the difference between a "public right of way"...
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They need to encourage active travel as in the famous Australian lion safari park: "Car with up to five people: $20. Poms on bicycles: free admittance."
One of the local fb communities had some guy kick off about roadworks at a junction being war on motorists. I pointed out that a stretch of grass and the pavement on two of the roads was being sacrificed to create a filter lane on them. He wasn't having it. Apparently it is a secret attack.
Poor man - I think drivers with visual impairments should also be given more leeway with speeding offenses as they may not be able to read their speedo or the signs. Same with traffic lights, and ...
I raise you a bright yellow gilet
Driver hits police car at scene of crash on Bromyard road
https://www.herefordtimes.com/news/23661732.driver-hits-police-car-scene...
Probably something to do with the balloon festival. The predatory autonomous vehicles are trying to snatch low-flying balloons out of the sky.
A thrilling spectacle of nature.
'Ere, that seems to be Hambini excitedly greeting his hairdresser! He seems ready to ream something, anyway.
Paignton’s multi-coloured Golden Mile leaves traders seeing red
You're trying to please these people why - update
I imagine the Betty Boop figurines and cap guns would fly off the shelves at one time - people would pull up outside, the kids would be given a £1 to spend, "bang! you're dead, Grandpa" happy days.
https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/paigntons-multi-coloured-golde...
The Met's Inspector Ray Jones told the Mail: "Specialist officers are investigating this collision and, whilst it would not be appropriate to speculate about the cause, colleagues are keen to hear from witnesses who can corroborate that the tree had no lights on."
"I can tackle anything in this" latest
https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/silly-season-land-rover-...
Concerns over slip and slide off A31 near Wimborne
You can't have fun because cars: 'Said a Pamphill resident: “These problems were also apparent when the slide was open last year and I was disappointed to see that it was happening again, this journey is busy, lengthy and hazardous enough without extra factors adding to the problems.'
Or
“This slide is absolutely NOT a distraction. People complaining about this need to get a life and stop being fun sponges [new phrase unlocked]. It’s a temporary thing for the summer.
"Look ahead when driving on the road, it’s not difficult. If you are easily distracted then you should not have a driving licence.
https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/23690701.concerns-slip-slide-off-...
Something, something scrap 20mph limits
https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/23691869.bmw-crashes-bus-stop-near-pre...
1,800 drivers caught speeding on Devon link road in 6 hours
Hmmmm, maybe they could issue fines and points instead of pleas...
https://www.itv.com/news/westcountry/2023-07-31/1800-drivers-caught-spee...
coach drivers
https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/23693669.coach-gets-stuck-tight-g...
Florence Pugh’s father hits out at low traffic neighbourhood scheme as his cafe closes
I might be wrong but I assume that, for an LTN to impact on a cafe, they must be have had a high level of cars stopping and therefore there must be available parking. I don't know this area and so this comes from Google but the roads surrounding the café appear to be permit holders only (therefore the customers can't stop there). There are four spaces for 30 minutes parking on the main road, but they're not going to be sufficient for the café (and aren't impacted by the LTN). The nearest road which may provide parking and has an LTN is Temple Street, but if you're lazy enough to not want to drive the two minutes to go to the other side of the bollard, you would probably be too lazy to walk the one minute from there to the café.
To me, due to the lack of parking in the area, I can't see how the LTN has had a negative impact on the café.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/florence-pugh-father-oxf...
Mr Schiavone, you've inherited £30,000 from your long lost aunt Betsi/ won the lottery
oh, thank you very much. Damn.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNJ-1gz12JI
Man to appear in court after refusing to pay English-only parking fine
https://news.sky.com/story/man-to-appear-in-court-after-refusing-to-pay-...
Watch moment impatient 4x4 driver tries to pass bin lorry and fails
https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/surrey-news/watch-moment-impatient-4x4-...
"Join us in exposing the madness of car-centrism by revealing the key design flaw of the iron cage. It is simple: Start crossing the road like this."
https://twitter.com/M_WrenchGang/status/1685960197569748992
Video is great, but here's a still for those without XXX
(series of people jumping over a hidden hazard leading to drivers getting out to look).
Bedford motorist with long item poking out of car not 'acceptable'
I'm not sure what the problem is, they didn't actually kill anyone and, if they had, it would only have been cyclists and pedestrians.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-66393971
I hope the footage from this police chase ends up on Street View!
It's a silly season first as FOUR cars get stuck on beach
https://www.devonlive.com/news/local-news/gallery/its-silly-season-first...
Hundreds march across Tamar bridge from Cornwall to Plymouth in protest of toll charges
drivers and their problems - subsidise meeee
https://www.itv.com/news/westcountry/2023-07-29/hundreds-march-across-ta...
Pure gold today from the World Bollard Association!
Two people stranded as tide engulfs car in Devon
Drivers have been warned of potholes and subsidence along the South Hams tidal road
https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/two-people-stranded-tide-engul...
Surrey Police pull over impatient driver after risky roadworks overtake in front of officers
The driver was filmed pulling out ahead of roadworks
https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/surrey-news/surrey-police-pull-over-imp...
Lincolnshire photographer's car a write-off after torrential rain floods hotel parking space
She says she's now stranded in Sheffield
Any drivers making a connection when it comes to instances like this, any at all??
https://www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/news/local-news/lincolnshire-photogra...
hard-working drivers / let them have their fun / the roads are not for your toy - latest
Car cruising crackdown results in six arrests as police warn street racing 'won't be tolerated'
The High Court injunction was put in place in a bid to stop the region's roads being used as race tracks
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/black-country/car-cruising-crackdown-re...
All together, now:
Just the good ol' boys
Never meaning no harm
Beats all you never saw, been in trouble with the law
Since the day they was born
Straightening the curves, flattening the hills
Someday the mountain might get 'em but the law never will
Making their way, the only way they know how
That's just a little bit more than the law will allow
Just the good ol' boys, wouldn't change if they could
Fighting the system like two modern-day Robin Hoods
Scurrilously implying that one idiot driver's idiocy is typical for 8 months now.
Electric car surrounded by water at Port Isaac Harbour
It thinks it's James Bond's submersible Lotus.
https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/electric-car-surrounded-...
Milton Keynes councillor resigns after motoring conviction
I saw the headline and thought that, for once, a politician had done the honourable thing; been convicted of something and resigned. Then I read the article and the councillor was convicted of driving without due care and attention, on a provisional licence and without insurance (caught after crashing into another car) in May but only resigned recently as the local newspaper reported it.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-66408067
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