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Maybe they just forgot...
Presumably the time-wasting and bureaucracy were caused by his refusal to admit what he had done and to attempt to escape punishment, there are no police exchanges or court hearings if you just accept the ticket when you get it and pay it within the time limit.
Don't get me started on water companies pumping sewage into our waterways!
The comments in the daily echo are worth reading if you like that sort of thing. They manage to get in a dig at cyclists without any prompting.
Imagine writing such a pathetic, victim-ey article in a national newspaper.
"Unblemished driving career" - it's another "otherwise law abiding" driver, unfairly punished by a system which has no interest in road safety but just wants to trap some percentage of drivers! Plus people pointlessly messing with the speed limits - 30mph has been the norm forever. #waronthemotorist
One more wasted green space will fix it.
To be fair the Germans didn't give everyone much notice they were done with the war in November. Could have saved everyone tooling up for the Big Push of spring 1919 if they had...
Nissan ploughs through Remembrance Day service in Halvergate...
https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/24714852.nissan-ploughs-remembrance-day-ser...
They shall not pass:
Dartford council withdraws parking tickets issued at Acacia car park during Remembrance Day parade
" ...the council says its enforcement team witnessed “incredibly dangerous” parking which it says had the potential to impact emergency plans should something have happened at a big event such as the parade."
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/dartford/news/fines-dished-out-to-motorists...
Sydney Road in Bath
So, you mean it's a rat run?
I witnessed something that I would consider extremely rude from a traffic warden patrolling New Milton high street.
An elderly couple double parked outside Oxfam bookshop to drop off some thing, and before the gentleman had got to the boot of his car, a traffic warden ran over and started writing a ticket. The lady pointed out to the traffic warden that her husband was dropping some charity bags into the charity shop. The traffic warden’s response to this was: “I don’t care, you’re getting a ticket.”
Surely a better response would’ve been ‘I’m very sorry madam but you’re not allowed to park here, you will need to find a parking space somewhere else and carry your bags to the charity shop’. I went and helped the gentleman unload his bags and politely told the warden I thought his response wasn’t very nice, and that he could have asked them to move on rather than just issue a ticket, his response was: “I don’t care.”
I finished my shopping on the high street and when I got back to the car, the warden was still hanging around. I told him was still disappointed with his response, and the warden switched on his body cam and aggressively came over to me and started questioning me.
Don’t get me wrong, I know traffic wardens have a vital part to play in keeping the flow of traffic on our high street and they do a very valuable job.
But I do feel that sometimes they can be overzealous, and perhaps some public-facing retraining would be appropriate.
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Reminds me of this old one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Qir4EEpawE
The boy has been issued a court summons and if he is found guilty of the offences, he could face a fine and points on his licence
He could, but he won't
They really should put up a sign like the sign that they put up.
I don't know if it was just on my computer but I got a virus warning when opening the comments on this piece. My machine is tied down harder then a very hard thing who has had additional hardness training but I would advise care.
However, please keep up the extremely good work.
wtjs can rest easy that normal service will be resumed soon
Fear not! Normal Service at Lancashire Constabulary, which is an absolute determination to do nothing about road traffic offences if they can get away with it, has been maintained throughout. For those who think that they are actually taking action but simply aren't telling me about it: here is NC09 AUV a couple of days ago with more conventionally attached ladders and no MOT for 4 months - first reported 30th September. That's nothing for Lancs! ND52 USU, no MOT since 26.10.24 which doesn't sound too bad, failed MOT 13.12.24 for numerous 'repair immediately' major defects which many people including the police feel still isn't too bad, is seen most nights parked all evening outside a notorious pub 150 yards from Garstang Police Station. Many people, including the police, also think that the police are too busy to deal with such matters and that the real problem is the villains wasting police time by reporting them. That's not going to change in the New Year, and the PCC describes all these as 'operational decisions of the police which we can't interfere with'
Thank-you. Funny how it's always dropping something off to a charity shop isn't it.
My favourite letter this week for rarified quaintness (something the Chron specialises in) is this one:
There was no attempt being made to control traffic, no temporary traffic lights, it was merely an accident waiting to happen, so I sought the telephone number of Winchester Police Station to report the matter.
https://www.hampshirechronicle.co.uk/news/24436813.letter---there-no-att...
Jacob Rees-Mogg calls Bath ‘anti-car’ in clash with city’s MP over LTNs
“It is time to back freedom and back the motorist.”
https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/jacob-rees-mogg-calls-...
Won't it be nice when it's JR-M, nobody/ ex-MP, or I may have to settle for opposition MP.
I'm sure that somethings wrong here, but I don't think that it's the new traffic island...
Does nobody sport a sense of humour any more? You can tell this is a jokey festive spoof from: I did suggest that you take note of the number plate details, maybe use mobile phones, and then upload that to Op Snap," he advised, referring to a police tool for
reportingbinning reports of traffic offencesBath street 'freed from the tyranny of the motor vehicle' by LTN, say locals
'People can linger on the pavement without fear of losing their head to debris bouncing off a speeding flatbed truck — and this very nearly did happen.'
https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/bath-street-freed-tyra...
And on it goes
He said: “They forgot about us and that’s the issue I have. They have completely ignored that we live here.”
https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/people-bath-street-clo...
Pretty sure the distinction between the "user in charge" and the person sitting in the driver's seat already exists in the Scottish legal system! Even if you're seen there before and after a crash a solid "I have no recollection of that" can be enough for the court to conclude that while you were the driver, you weren't actually *driving* in those moments, so it is not moral to hold you responsible.
The notion of "happened in your watch, the buck stops with you" continues to become less generally applicable. (No doubt we'll find out this also doesn't apply to the politicians who ushered in these changes...)
Car brains indeed
Don't ban the cars, ban the tourists instead.
Tractor striking barrier sparked emergency response
https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/24610875.tractor-striking-barrier...
and
Disruption after 'all lines blocked' on railway
https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/24610378.disruption-all-lines-blo...
I love the comments in the daily echo, they're such a bunch of miseries.
I created a forum post about that this morning, but it takes ages to show up.
Sorry, Peter: I must have missed that one
Oh, it's not your fault at all. I know it's there, but can't even find it when clicking on the Forum links. It'll likely appear after an hour or so.
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