Drivers and their problems

I can't keep up with 'progress'...but neither can bing maps.

pockstone wrote:

You prompted me to take a look at where Bristol airport is, esp. re. existing railways. (Our local airport, Leeds Bradford is inaccessible by rail but there's much talk about extending the line and building a new station at great expense.)

Me also - was surprised to find it's further and certainly seems less pleasant on a bike than getting to Edinburgh airport (from the main railway station in each place).

On the other hand we have that wonderful tram.  (The tram is convenient though from the centre of town - albeit not much faster than cycling)

pockstone wrote:

You prompted me to take a look at where Bristol airport is, esp. re. existing railways. (Our local airport, Leeds Bradford is inaccessible by rail but there's much talk about extending the line and building a new station at great expense.)

Why don't they just relocate Bristol Airport to the ruddy great disused runway at Filton? Railway within yards, Motorway within minutes.

It'd get in the way of the stadium if that ever gets completed.

David9694 wrote:

I'd  be in favour of CAZs etc being a layer on Google Maps.  I'd be in favour of drivers being able to receive a text message if they were due to pay a charge. 

The Euro classifications listed in the criteria don't mean anything to me:
"Euro 4, 5 and 6 petrol vehicles, roughly 2006 upwards
Euro 6 diesel vehicles, roughly end of 2015 onwards"

https://www.bristol.gov.uk/residents/streets-travel/bristols-caz/charges...

Approaching from the M5 south, you'd have to drive quite a long way around 3 sides of a rectangle to get into the CAZ; if you're coming from the M4 and went M32, you're literally in the city centre - and what sort of petrol old banger are you running for it to be an issue at all?

The CAZ includes the end of the A4 Portway as it comes into the city centre and joins the A3029 and then the A370 heading out toward the airport (a junction area known as Cumberland Basin).

It's one of people's main complaints, that if you follow the signage from the M5 to to go to the airport you are funnelled directly into this little spur of the CAZ and by the time you get close enough to see CAZ warning signs its too late and there's no way of avoiding the CAZ.

Or something like that, anyway... 

David9694 wrote:

I'd  be in favour of CAZs etc being a layer on Google Maps.  I'd be in favour of drivers being able to receive a text message if they were due to pay a charge. 

The Euro classifications listed in the criteria don't mean anything to me:
"Euro 4, 5 and 6 petrol vehicles, roughly 2006 upwards
Euro 6 diesel vehicles, roughly end of 2015 onwards"

https://www.bristol.gov.uk/residents/streets-travel/bristols-caz/charges...

Approaching from the M5 south, you'd have to drive quite a long way around 3 sides of a rectangle to get into the CAZ; if you're coming from the M4 and went M32, you're literally in the city centre - and what sort of petrol old banger are you running for it to be an issue at all?

You can put your reg number into https://www.gov.uk/guidance/driving-in-a-clean-air-zone and it'll tell you which zones to be careful of.

Personally, I think the allowed amount of pollution is way too high. I propose an alternative measurement scheme - leave your car running in a normal sized garage for 30 minutes with the driver sat there and see if they can survive the fumes.

hawkinspeter wrote:

Personally, I think the allowed amount of pollution is way too high. I propose an alternative measurement scheme - leave your car running in a normal sized garage for 30 minutes with the driver sat there and see if they can survive the fumes.

A bit strict. After three pints and a curry, I may fail this test sitting on my bicycle!

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Ms Morrell said Denny had realised her mistake when she joined the motorway but did not know how to correct it.

"She increased and decreased her speed as she tried to work out how to correct the situation," Ms Morrell said.

"This was not a case of dangerous driving with a flagrant disregard of the rules."

Or, you know, she could have pulled over onto the hard shoulder...

andystow wrote:

As it's often absolutely necessary to go much less than 20 MPH, such as when pulling out of a parking space, I'd suggest that all cars be pulled from the road immediately until each model can be tested and shown to be capable of being driven at 5 MPH. It seems the regulators must have been missing this big issue for decades!

I once drove out of a car park at the stipulated 10 m.p.h.  An impatient driver behind me tried to get ahead by dodging down a side aisle - left, then right, then right again - only to have to give way to me as I made my way carefully past the junction at which she'd just arrived.  How I laughed at the steam coming out of her ears!

Have you tried pulling across 3 lanes of oncoming traffic ??!!

I had similar recently cycling on a narrow road. The driver behind tried to go round three sides of a small park to get ahead of me while I cycled along the one remaining side. I confess I actually had to slow down to ensure we intersected at just the right moment.     

At midnight? I'm actually amazed she hit someone.

Have you tried pulling across 3 lanes of oncoming traffic ??!!

Logic tells me she joined the wrong carriageway by going down the 'off ramp', so with some quick thinking (!) she should have been able to quickly get onto the hard shoulder crossing at most one lane of oncoming 'off' traffic

Not entirely convinced being pissed and quick thinking are quite compatible. Maybe ask lancs police or Blackburn council?

Hirsute wrote:

Quite a long ban, so doubtful if she will legally drive again.

Hopefully she has to sell her car to pay the fine.

My first reaction (OK, after wondering about his intentions) was to visit this forum and see if it had been mentioned. You didn't let me down. 

Out 'ere in the shires we also have got our share of miscreants. In the last couple of days:

• Police in Telford stopped 55 vehicles 18 drivers reported for a multitude of offences and 6 seized for no insurance.
• Also in Telford - firefighters called out after a car "rolled into the doorway of a property on all four wheels" after a collision in Donnington.
• Speed enforcement in Ludlow - "a large number" of drivers to be reported for excess speed plus 11 in nearby Munslow. *
• Fire crews were called out at 1.18pm on Monday to a van on fire in north Shrewsbury, caused by caused by "the wiring from additional leisure battery in the vehicle. Advice was given to the owner of the vehicle."
• A 4-vehicle collision at a roundabout on the A5 near Shrewsbury at around 8am on Thursday was cleared by 9.55am.
• Air ambulance called to a single-vehicle crash on outside a primary school in Malinslee, Telford this morning.

* Good to see West Mercia's bike cops doing this in plain black uniform instead of hi-viz. https://twitter.com/SouthShropCops/status/1661642500677812227

Hirsute wrote:

Low flying cars in this video. Was he going for a record flight ? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-65770238

Wow, full send!

Or, "them Duke boys are at it again!"

Hopefully she makes a full recovery and puts her phone away from now on when driving.

andystow wrote:

Hirsute wrote:

Low flying cars in this video. Was he going for a record flight ? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-65770238

Wow, full send!

Or, "them Duke boys are at it again!"

Hopefully she makes a full recovery and puts her phone away from now on when driving.

Hey, they're just two good ol' boys.  Never meanin' no harm.

 We forgot to say that the owner of the coach also had a red Ferrari. Unfortunately, it had not been taxed since December 2022 and was also seized

He should have moved to Lancashire! The Crims choice Audi A4, no MOT, insurance or VED for 3 1/2 years, reported several times (first occasion 1.7.22) and often filmed around Garstang, and this is it parked 20 yards from Garstang Police Station- a favourite police rest stop where hordes of TacOps ANPR/ video equipped police cars often hang out together avoiding work

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Dorothy Denny, 65, drank vodka for six hours on 4 October last year before deciding to drive to the garage to get more alcohol at about midnight.

When they say 'the garage', do they mean Strensham motorway services? Bizarrely, that is probably the only place in the area you can buy alcohol at that time of night.