Drivers and their problems

Hirsute wrote:

Usual nonsense in the comments

"I understand his frustration but he leaves himself open to litigation. If a motorist, speeding or otherwise, reacts in a way which can be proven to have caused an accident then I'm afraid that this chap may find himself in front of the beak."

I doubt there's any rule against a bird nesting box or bat house being yellow. Is there any bird/bat he could attract there that would make disturbing the box illegal?

Hirsute wrote:

Yeah just block the footway mr policeman, that won't increase risk for pedestrians.

Are they incapable of parking somewhere safe ?

That IS somewhere safe - it's out of the way of motor traffic

Local papers is a bit of a misnomer: most of them don't even have local offices eg IIRC there's one desk which covers everything south of Birmingham down to Lands End.

Or any other item that has recently had 5p taken off it's tax.

But then why would an otherwise law abiding driver need to react to a speed camera, real or imitation?...

I had someone tell me about another fake camera that they might brake and aquaplane. They drive on the road but don't even know what aquaplaning is.

And they might speed up because "they think it's a 60 due to the camera" ???

David9694 wrote:

Petrol prices are soaring - and could soon go well above 150p a litre

It's a war on the poor because "we have to drive" *.

It's condemning the elderly to isolation because insurance costs have jumped again (in general, but why the old they ask?)

* TBF the higher status / wealthier like to live apart from the proles and the tanneries.  I'm recalling various reportage from the 19th century which often had "we had to rise before 5 as it took us over an hour to walk to the factory / mine / market ..."

David9694 wrote:

Police increase patrols over concerns drivers ignore no entry signs

At the end of March, officers were deployed to deal with motorists who contravene the bus gate rules in Semington, near Melksham.

But how on earth do you expect people to know that's not allowed?

That's clearly a road, it goes somewhere, roads are for driving on, you used to come this way a few years back, well, maybe 10 ... So you're changing gear, adjusting the sat nav, chatting to your passengers: there are some signs but then they've gone past.  Frankly there are signs everywhere, can't read them all...

It's interesting that evading the police was considered dangerous driving but the driver that seriously injured Mr Pike in the link below was only charged with careless driving.

https://road.cc/content/news/hit-and-run-driver-without-licence-jailed-y...

he could get one of those flame thrower dog robots, might concentrate the minds of the drivers abit, the speed detector signs that article talks about are useless, even if they come with the camera, the driver only gets a warning letter reminding them to slow down.

without the camera they serve no purpose because drivers just ignore the frowny face sign. Ive sat at a junction waiting to pull out and seen just a constant stream of cars barrel past them, all doing 5-10mph over the speed limit, which means probably double that being shown on the speedo, and no reaction from those drivers at all to the sign.

David9694 wrote:

Petrol prices are soaring - and could soon go well above 150p a litre
 

This was echoed by AA fuel price spokesman Luke Bosdet, who said pump prices were climbing towards the point "drivers fear". 

"It is a psychological shock that shouts out from the price boards each time motorists drive past," he said. 

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https://news.sky.com/story/money-blog-news-latest-consumer-financial-inf...

When I last bought a car in 2014 petrol was £1.45 a litre.

Hardly soaring. average rent has doubled over the same time frame.

War on tennants is closer to the truth than war on motorists.

David9694 wrote:

Petrol prices are soaring - and could soon go well above 150p a litre

This was echoed by AA fuel price spokesman Luke Bosdet, who said pump prices were climbing towards the point "drivers fear". 

"It is a psychological shock that shouts out from the price boards each time motorists drive past," he said. 

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https://news.sky.com/story/money-blog-news-latest-consumer-financial-inf...

But it's OK because our taxes are being used to subsidise those poor hard-done-by motorists by freezing fuel duty 

As someone who drives a diesel, I was looking at that and thinking "that's been the normal price for ages!" 😭