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Drivers and their problems
A new catch-all Tea Shop thread for those miscellaneous new stories that don't quite fit with parking, crashing into buildings or trapped/prisoners in their homes.
If you're new please join in and if you have questions pop them below and the forum regulars will answer as best we can.
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- ubercurmudgeon 3 hours 22 min ago
I had three different cyclocross bikes before the marketing departments at various bicycle companies came up with the "gravel" category. All of...
- Sredlums 4 hours 6 min ago
Maybe the UK could try to reach some sort of agreement with the EU over things like international trade and such.
- David9694 4 hours 36 min ago
Cumbria County Council was a 1974 creation, merging the of old County Borough of Carlisle, and counties of Cumberland, and Westmorland - in which...
- Backladder 4 hours 48 min ago
If BC want to insist on barriers then they should have their own stock loaded on a truck that they can rent out to organisers at reasonable cost,...
- Miller 5 hours 18 min ago
Well, there's lifetime bans and there's lifetime bans. Banning an 88 year old don't impress me much.
- Gkam84 8 hours 23 min ago
I think that is why blind eyes have been turned in the UK, internationally aswell, with things like the Redhook crits, there were many licensed...
- mdavidford 9 hours 32 min ago
Ahem - other esporters(?) might be rather surprised to hear that the UCI has taken over their events - I think that would be the Cycling Esports...
- Bungle_52 9 hours 41 min ago
I wonder how he got to the game?
- OldRidgeback 9 hours 44 min ago
You'd need some good wet weather gear for that ride too.
- OnYerBike 12 hours 8 min ago
It seems to me that the most likely explanation is that whoever provided that quote fails to grasp the difference between a "public right of way"...
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As you say, at a guess, someone has latched onto the freedoms granted to so-called Historic vehicles (no MOT, no ULEZ, £0 VED).
A VINTAGE car more than four decades old has been pulled off the road for being in a poor condition after being spotted by police in a supermarket car park.
Essex Police officers were deployed across Colchester over the weekend as part of the force's Operation Roadrunner.
The scheme is designed to help reduce the number of casualties on the roads and act on concerns raised by councillors and residents.
During the patrols, officers used a range of tactics to ensure the laws of the roads were being adhered to by drivers, issuing six fixed penalty notices for a range of driving offences.
Words of advice were also given to six other drivers over the course of the weekend operation.
While in Tesco, in Highwoods, the police also discovered a loud 45-year-old car which was being driving at inappropriate speeds.
After preventing the car from being driven out of the car park, officers established it was in an extremely poor condition, so decided to refer the find to the roads policing unit.
Following the arrival of the team, the vehicle was deemed unsafe and not roadworthy and can now no longer be driven on the road.
someone has latched onto the freedoms granted to so-called Historic vehicles (no MOT, no ULEZ, £0 VED)
You're living in the past! Up here in Go Ahead, Cut Red Tape Lancashire everybody is entitled to those freedoms if they have the sense to claim them. This is FN19 FSY
I'd love for them to put a number on that "inappropriate speed"
https://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/24066905.colchester-police-prohibit-...
but they do a lot of blocking now, so you often only get 1 or 2 sentences of the article.
Tiktok star warns drivers as new speed cameras land in Devon
The social media star has flagged three things drivers need to know about the new cameras
https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/tiktok-star-warns-drivers-new-...
A TikTok star? Me? I'm a soldier in Call of Duty.
Three Boomers and a Funeral. Well, maybe not the funeral, but a refuse truck going the wrong way, I ask you.
New Herne Bay plaza and one-way system branded ‘ridiculous’ as hundreds sign petition against project
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/herne-bay/news/if-council-doesn-t-rip-up-se...
After all of the fuss about removing the car parking spaces on Clevedon seafront (road.cc articles passim), the residents of Saltburn in North Yorkshire kicked up a fuss after the council considered putting in parking spaces - https://www.redcar-cleveland.gov.uk/news/2023/marine-parade-parking-prop...
'Regulars' who drive to pub, get 'stuck' due to floods.
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/24030953.regulars-stranded-overnight-suffolk...
I particularly liked the Anglian Water van,stuck in water.
I watch on bemused as police once again ask drivers nicely
Driving through flooded roads is sending waves into people's homes, police warn
Motorists told not to drive through flood water
https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/gloucester-news/driving-throu...
"Important message to #climatescam patriots: be sure to protect your privacy by cutting off the antenna the government put on your tyres - it's how the government are gonna track your car and make you pay taxes to climate scammers Please share this message with your networks"
oh, it was a call-out, well why didn't you say?
You can be as flood-proof as you like, it's not going to stop you getting swept away downstream and being yet another driver for over stretched fire crews to have to deal with. Or am I getting too cynical?
Land Rover driver tackling floods was on call-out
Jack Chapman was called out to save the day
https://www.devonlive.com/news/local-news/land-rover-driver-tackling-flo...
EDIT: upgraded to "good deed"
Land Rover driver who drove through Storm Henk floods was doing good deed
Jack Chapman was called out to save the day
https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/local-news/land-rover-driver-who-dro...
Gosh if only there had been some public announcement about the ULEZ before the go-live, the £12.50 insurmountable obstacle could have been avoided.
Wait, the comments observe that our old friend the so-called Historic vehicles don't pay ULEZ - along with
no VED, no MoT
God bless Hooky Street
Viva Hooky Street
Long live Hooky Street
Bromley Pageant of Motoring 2024 cancelled by organisers because of the expansion of ULEZ to outer London boroughs
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/bexley-and-bromley/news/classic-car-show-sc...
Southbourne Crossroads car park to close on January 15
save scruffy, little used car park and don't build there, that will block our sea view.
https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/24030574.southbourne-crossroads-c...
York residents furious as street parking to be replaced with cycle lanes
City of York Council, approved the removal of Queen Street residents’ parking on safety grounds to permit the installation of segregated cycle lanes and a wider pedestrian footway on Thursday, October 19.
https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/local-news/york-residents-furious-st...
Warning after illegal parking on new Trowbridge pavements
The cabinet member for transport said: "Our civil enforcement officers will regularly patrol around Trowbridge, including Castle Street, if any vehicles are seen parking behind a yellow line restriction a penalty charge notice would be issued.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-67892291
So councils can issue FPNs for pavement parking in some instances?
Meanwhile, main news from Hull.......
......car gets keyed.
https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hull-east-yorkshire-news/driver-fac...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-scotland-67916370
No mention of a professional bus driver
Another hard-pressed driver:
Van driver ordered to stump up £500 after ‘lobbing’ banana skin window in Herne Bay
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/herne-bay/news/van-driver-ordered-to-stump-...
Here's an odd one: https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/evri-driver-suspended-after-delivery-9023942
conked out car is news why?
Architect left stranded after Discovery engine fail that Land Rover refuses to fix
Steve said that despite being a loyal JLR customer for years, he's had no help from them at all
https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/architect-left-stranded-...
Fed up residents in 'ignored' Devon town 'want action'
The town is suffering from traffic congestion, air pollution, and overdevelopment but the Government is 'not listening'
“Another survey, organised by Cullompton Community Association fields, revealed that people were torn but would give up their community fields for the sake of a relief road to stop the awful congestion in the centre of the town. Now there is to be a further consultation, on both the relief road and junction 28, on which progress also needs to be made."
https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/fed-up-residents-ignored-devon...
Local shops 'won't survive' if town's free parking ends, warn councillors
"Most of the businesses on the high street are struggling to survive"
https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/local-shops-wont-survi...
Parking 'scam' warning at Hayle beach where you cannot pay with cash or phone
You will need to download the app but it won't work with Apple Pay or Google Pay
On what planet do you drive into a private ANPR car park and stay 14 minutes, drive off having not paid anything and believe all will be well? Sippi app, anyone?
https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/parking-scam-warning-hay...
Driver’s fury as Volkswagon Lupo damaged by ‘rude’ parking stickers in Ramsgate
I guess a description of how he was parked wouldn't fit the victim narrative.
“[The stickers] were right in the middle of my windscreen so someone has leant over and touched the car to put them there. It’s a show car so deep scratches don’t look good. They definitely weren’t there before."
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/thanet/news/fury-as-car-damaged-by-rude-par...
pretty sure Lassie would have handled this better:
Waitrose car stolen with owner's Labrador dog still inside
Land Rover Discovery - check
Waitrose - check
Labrador - check
https://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/24045864.waitrose-car-stolen-owners...
ANPR cameras fining visitors to Kent’s country parks
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/kent/news/thousands-fined-for-parking-at-ke...
Speed cameras hacked down on road where woman was killed still not replaced months later
The mum of Kelly Kennedy, who tragically died after the incident on the A4067, has called for the prompt return of the damaged cameras
Vandalised speed cameras that had been installed after years of campaigning by a bereaved mum have still not been replaced months after they were ripped down. Kelly Kennedy, from the Swansea Valley, died along the A4067 on July 4, 2016, after her car was ploughed into head-on by a man who had been racing another at the time.
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/speed-cameras-hacked-down-...
Recap - car stuck on top of mattress on A38 in Cornwall
https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/live-car-stuck-top-mattr...
Disbelief as Mercedes gets stuck in sand on Cornwall beach
It might not be tourist season, but people are still getting their cars stuck on beaches in Cornwall
https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/disbelief-mercedes-gets-stuck-...
A tiny glimpse of a world without cars
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/ashford/news/the-abandoned-ghost-roads-only...
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