Drivers and their problems

No, I'm not - I have no idea where this person lives.  I just made an assumption.  All I know is that the story linked in the OP appeared in the Manchester Evening News, references her (falsely) being reported driving in Cheshire and Kingsway in south Manchester, and that she is dealing with the Greater Manchester police.

Greater Manchester version is probably a pretty good bet then. Thanks for the reply.

David9694 wrote:

Land Rover stuck in ancient Dartmoor bog sparks outrage

One life. Live it - and other bollocks. Prosecution, DNPA?

https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/land-rover-stuck-ancient-dartm...

"Let's off road!"

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.

bensynnock wrote:

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...

brooksby wrote:

BLOCKED: Cycle wands have made life difficult...

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.

chrisonabike wrote:

brooksby wrote:

BLOCKED: Cycle wands have made life difficult...

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

wtjs wrote:

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'?!

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"

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!

stonojnr wrote:

Emu spotted walking in road. https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/24590784.emus-spotted-walking-road-hadleigh-...

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/

Unfortunately I think Coogan the person is more like Partridge the character, than he'd probably like to admit.

How about the other news article on the sidebar of that page:

https://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/24327058.parking-fears-flats-plan-f...

Quote:

A block of 14 flats could be built on an unused car park in St John’s.

But neighbours have criticised the plans, saying developers have not included enough parking space for future residents.

It's not a real car stuck on beach story without complete inundation and recovery after the tide goes out.

Have you tried
https://www.gov.uk/complain-about-a-driving-instructor

stonojnr wrote:

Unfortunately I think Coogan the person is more like Partridge the character, than he'd probably like to admit.

Sadly this is the case with many comedians I think, Ricky Gervais certainly has the preening self-regard of David Brent, John Cleese has the impotent irascibility of Basil Fawlty and Jimmy Carr is, unforgivably, Jimmy Carr.

No, but I know what would happen if I did:

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