Drivers and their problems

Hmm... read the article and for once I'm thinking that this might be one to be OK with the magistrates letting slide.  I don't know whether it carries any weight or is just "words" but they did advise that any offense in the next 3 years and the court would not accept the same excuse.

We also have facilitated our entire population being able to build their lives around casual super-mobility.  Like being able to cover, say, 20+ miles per day with multiple trips, possibly carrying others.  I'd deffo suggest that we could fix the infra so she could cycle in, if it was only there and back. However it looks like going to her mother's area would make this a triangle having 7-8 mile sides, plus I don't know where the other dance places are.  Google suggests just cycling that triangle would be 19 miles, 1 hour 40 min+ and you'd gain a hundred metres or so.  Not casual cycling for a new starter!

If she was caught again though... sorry Liverpool kids, you'll lose some of your dance services until they can find someone else who can drive properly or the dance project(s) get enough cash to fund a taxi...

I think it was syndicated across all of the Retch plc local titles, so also in Dorset Live, etc. 

It is rough being caught multiple times by a speed camera and not getting the opportunity after the first offence to correct your behaviour. I have a little sympathy, but then she was playing the 'can't afford taxi/driver' card, whilst also driving a £72k Audi E-tron on a wage of £2.3k per month. Summat doesn't add up to me.

Oh, missed that.  I saw a slightly lower price but for the car but yes, it's not a 10 year old Fiesta is it?  Perhaps her partner - "a director at an Olivier Award winning theatre company" - gave her a treat?  But then, you could flog that, get that Fiesta and walk away with a multiple of my yearly wage.  That'd keep you in taxis for a bit.

Or can you get one on hire purchase - only 700 quid a month!

So probably good work by her brief then and the usual sympathetic magistrates.

Depending on her business, perhaps allowing her to keep the licence but adding a community service element would have been appropriate (I know, I know...)

chrisonatrike wrote:

Or can you get one on hire purchase - only 700 quid a month!

Ouch! You'd really want to be driving it all the time to get your money's worth. Would be a bit galling to have it sat on the drive whilst you cycled across Liverpool to various dance classes. Not to mention the difficulty in transporting a class load of hula-hoops by bicycle!

HoarseMann wrote:

.... Not to mention the difficulty in transporting a class load of hula-hoops by bicycle!

Not seeing the problem?

Ah, it did though sound rather like the things that might go on in Somerton - I don't visit my sister there!

SaveTheWail wrote:

They recommend cyclists use the 14-mile diversion...are there really so many cyclists that they're going to clog up all those minor roads, which are probably what the cyclists are normally mostly using anyway?

https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/cheltenham-news/a435-closure-14-mile-diversion-8198055

A bit misleading. It's only a 14 mile diversion if your destination is just at the end of the closure. If you're starting or ending in the Cheltenham city centre, the diversion adds maybe 6.5 miles.

I still wouldn't take it, though. There appear to be loads of minor roads that go through, the shortest adding less than two miles.

More sheep
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-64836739

Looks like it had a close shave, hope it wasn't fleeced for travelling without a ticket

NotNigel wrote:

Drivers and their problems I hear you say? According to a taxi driver's diagnosis of why Hull is so congested it possibly comes as no surprise as to the first point that he makes...

https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hull-east-yorkshire-news/taxi-drive...

solution seems to be to ban taxis from bus lanes so they will avoid the problem of not being able to move out into the full second lane.