Drivers and their problems

chrisonatrike wrote:

Don't you remember the balrog scene?  Gandalf deliberately obstructed the bridge - could have just reported the balrog but no, he had to confront him too.  Look where that led.

He took his evidence to the authorities, Saruman, didn't like his response, so decided to go off and sort it himself. Definite vigilante. How could I be so blind. Good guy Saruman tries to stop the villain, but his plans are ruined by that meddling vigilante! It's all so clear now.

Possibly. Certainly an argument to be made for him being a cult leader, attempting to send his followers to their demise.

That one has come up before but there is plenty of warning before you get to the the bridge

andystow wrote:

1. Put big, replaceable bumpers on the trams.
2. Legalize the trams pushing cars out of the way.

When I lived in Brussels for a spell as a child the tram drivers had no compunction about pushing cars that were in their way off the tracks, even if the occupants were still inside, and no bumpers necessary! It wasn't legalised but equally it was ignored by the police on the grounds that the car shouldn't have been there in the first place.

Pedantry: being disgusted over something very small and needing to correct it.

Better still....use this method from 1970 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaFO1xNL-IQ

David9694 wrote:

The scene of the crime (2 years ago) 

I can't get the arrows to work

David9694 wrote:

The scene of the crime (2 years ago) 

It causes him (a tattoo artist who lives alone) a problem because now he only has two parking spaces instead of three.

I guess he needs a couple of work vans to carry his heavy tattoing tools and ladders, or something.

David9694 wrote:

The 2021 article is worth a look. B1NSF comes up as a white Mercedes 2008 on DVLA. 

While you're doing DVLA checks, don't forget to check date of last V5C issue, on this reg it's 20/02/23, so nothing automatically dodgy with it being on a blue C Class in 2021. 

But but why have they put a road there if you're not meant to drive on it? How am I supposed to take in all these signs, watch out for cars, pedestrians, motorbikers and cyclists AND keep to the speed limit (while balancing my coffee, checking the sat-nav, telling the kids in the back to stop fighting and worrying about what we're going to eat this evening?

Actually - in one sense in the UK with the cultural norms we have those are valid complaints. We could bridge the gap between legal expectation and daily reality by applying something like "sustainable safety" principles. Reduce the cognitive workload for drivers, prevent some foreseeable mistakes and also improve training for better understanding of the level of attention required for this task...

Then after that nick and ban anyone still incapable.

David9694 wrote:

Mr "It's not in anyone's way" here is a new one on me, but this is a chance to revisit several "I'm prepared to go to court (prison in one case) over this" stories, many of which we've had on here. What cars do to people. 

I get that it's a crappy operating model, but drivers and their constant bullshit, try-ons and whingeing have brought this on themselves. 

 https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/gallery/holidaymakers-pu...

But the dropped kerb he's parked on forms part of the footway, not part of his driveway.  It doesn't grant right of way, even, only grants him a right of access to cross the footway to access his tarmac garden...

Funny that the headline isn't "driver pictured driving dangerously close to cyclist".

Weird situation there. Both the adults came out from the passenger side of the vehicle but it looked like the car had cut up the van and then the van had crumped the rear drivers side door.  So had he pulled up to give a peace of his mind and caused an accident, the woman then got out in a stress because of the initial actions of the driver had caused the collision, which he then compounded by deciding to commit assault. 

Not just cycle lanes drivists think they should be allowed to drive on then!

So many things here.  Consultation pics show lots of old and disabled people - but given the time of day (or finding the time at all) that could be a selection effect.

The council consultation site says:

The Phase 1 Consultation was held in November and December 2020
577 unique users responded to the consultation, of which nearly 70% lived in Heavitree or Whipton.

(Phase 2) In September and October 2021, we consulted on a range of measures to address the issues raised during the Phase 1 Consultation... Considering online, email, letter and telephone responses, nearly 1,400 people participated in the consultation, of which over 70% lived in Heavitree or Whipton. ... A small majority of everyone that responded supported the introduction of traffic filters to reduce traffic.

Now - clearly they didn't reach people because people were not reached.  But this was over 2 years ago they started this... Are council consultations done well in general, trying to honestly gather opinion?  Quite possibly no.  However the few occasions where I've seen that there has been a decent effort to engage with people before time (advertising in the public space, in and around the area affected, letters and leaflets, online comms) 99.9% of people simply don't engage.  They may do so because they feel it's a foregone conclusion or they won't be heard (definitely times this has been true).  Like not voting though their missing view cannot possibly count.

David9694 wrote:

Battle rumbles on as ‘inconsiderate’ neighbour blocks access again to St Wulfram's Church in Grantham

https://www.granthamjournal.co.uk/news/battle-rumbles-on-as-inconsiderat...

it seems to me the inconsiderate neighbour in this story in the church, using a footpath to access the church instead of nearby church street. Allegedly wedding cars have been unable to access. Because apparently brides can't walk the 66m along this footpath. (the distance from the actual road to the church is about the same as the length of the church, so who knows what they do once they get inside. Funerals I have more sympathy for, but again if the church were to remove the two steps from the access in church street they would have perfect access without driving on a footpath.

Even the google streetview car appears to have gone down this road footpath ffs.

David9694 wrote:

Western governments can't get enough of this crazy life hack - ban all men from driving!

https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/one-change-driving-rule...

I'm sure that could be made shorter and much more general, reducing a more general class of offenses...