Author Topic: People who park like fuds  (Read 286485 times)

clarion

  • Tyke
Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #275 on: 15 February, 2013, 08:43:26 pm »
I've been told that in London, if the truck is called out, you're stuffed.  I think it's to do with the private contracts.

I may be wrong.
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mcshroom

  • Mushroom
Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #276 on: 19 February, 2013, 06:03:13 pm »
Take one driver driving too fast, one patch of ice and one hedge - and voila!



From this morning's commute
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clarion

  • Tyke
Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #277 on: 19 February, 2013, 08:30:23 pm »
A colleague?
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Chris S

Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #278 on: 20 February, 2013, 07:58:00 am »
We've seen a big increase in the amount of car-debris in the hedges recently. Clearly lots of fuds are choosing (well, probably not choosing - actually) to park in this manner.

mcshroom

  • Mushroom
Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #279 on: 20 February, 2013, 08:45:42 am »
A colleague?

Unknown but at that time in the morning and heading that way almost definitely. When I got there the occupants had left, but the skid marks on the slushy/icy surface made telling reading.

The car had slipped on ice while trying to turn right, then gripped on some tarmac and it spun, aided by crossing back onto the ice again.
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Wascally Weasel

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Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #280 on: 20 February, 2013, 08:46:34 am »
I've been told that in London, if the truck is called out, you're stuffed.  I think it's to do with the private contracts.

I may be wrong.

TfL are (for the most part) pretty hot on bus lane enforcement - you get fined if filmed by a bus driving in a bus lane and towed if they find you parked in one, particularly on red routes.

Bus lane enforcement is in my opinion one of the big factors behind growth in cycling in London - despite the fact that for a long time TfL wasn't keen to promote them for cycle use (they don't (or at least didn't) even appear as routes on the TfL cycle maps, despite being incredibly popular with cyclists in most cases.  This was due to one well meaning but risk averse senior manager who was concerned about safety and corporate responsibility).

clarion

  • Tyke
Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #281 on: 20 February, 2013, 12:03:45 pm »
Bus lane enforcement makes a difference.  Except where local parking takes over (i'm thinking Tooting), cars generally stay out of bus lanes even outside the hours of operation.
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Vince

  • Can't climb; won't climb
Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #282 on: 20 February, 2013, 01:39:32 pm »
Fuds are also present in Holland

This was the better attempt. The previous day the car was parked on the island in the background at 45 degrees to everything!
216km from Marsh Gibbon

Wombat

  • Is it supposed to hurt this much?
Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #283 on: 21 February, 2013, 08:19:17 am »
There's at least 2 fuds in that picture, some idiot has bought a Ford Ka!

(part of my personal campaign to aid humanity by discouraging people from buying these leaky heaps of crap, yes I do have one...!)
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Riggers

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Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #284 on: 21 February, 2013, 12:09:26 pm »
… and RED trousers. It's got it all!
Certainly never seen cycling south of Sussex

Vince

  • Can't climb; won't climb
Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #285 on: 21 February, 2013, 12:20:50 pm »
… and RED trousers. It's got it all!

This IS Holland - RED trousers should not be a surprise!
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Cudzoziemiec

  • Ride adventurously and stop for a brew.
Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #286 on: 21 February, 2013, 01:44:42 pm »
Orange trousers, surely?

Bus lane enforcement makes a difference.  Except where local parking takes over (i'm thinking Tooting), cars generally stay out of bus lanes even outside the hours of operation.
Maybe in London, not necessarily in The Rest of the World. I was going along the A38 in Bristol on Tuesday at 9 am and noticing that, although it was free of parked cars (it's used for parking 9:30 - 16:30) the buses were still keeping out of it because it was, presumably, easier for them to stay in the jammed solid main lane than rejoin it when passing the occasional delivery vehicle or when the road narrows and the bus lane ends. Whatever the bus drivers' reasons, the bus lane was working well as a nice, wide cycle lane.
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clarion

  • Tyke
Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #287 on: 21 February, 2013, 02:30:36 pm »
That smacks of poor lane enforcement, though...
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Cudzoziemiec

  • Ride adventurously and stop for a brew.
Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #288 on: 21 February, 2013, 02:37:42 pm »
Possibly poor regulation rather than enforcement, I think delivery might be legal at that time. I'll have a look later today if I remember. It's a road full of shops. Either way, the greater problem for the buses seems to be lack of continuity in the lane - it ending at traffic lights, where buses often take the non-bus lane anyway if they're turning right, and places where the road narrows - rather than it being blocked. Same high standards of design and joinedupthinking as cycle lanes.
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Pingu

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Rhys W

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Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #290 on: 24 February, 2013, 10:47:15 pm »
Should have gone to Specsavers.

jogler

  • mojo operandi
Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #291 on: 24 February, 2013, 11:08:01 pm »
A SMIDSY at Specsavers.The ultimate irony ;D

Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #292 on: 25 February, 2013, 11:26:46 am »
I can't make out the licence plate. Is it I4M4W4NK3R?
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jogler

  • mojo operandi
Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #293 on: 25 February, 2013, 01:04:51 pm »


Two disabled bays!

No.
"Parent & Child" bays

clarion

  • Tyke
Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #294 on: 25 February, 2013, 02:34:45 pm »
Perhaps he took his Momma with him to hear what everyone was saying about her.
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Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #295 on: 25 February, 2013, 02:35:03 pm »
Observation.

Observance is something else.

 ;D

Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #296 on: 25 February, 2013, 03:32:14 pm »
Thats just asking for someone to squeeze their car in right beside it. I didn't used to this much at all.

Tim Hall

  • Victoria is my queen
Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #297 on: 25 February, 2013, 04:10:13 pm »


Two disabled bays!

No.
"Parent & Child" bays

Two parents and two children being the standard payload of such a vehicle. Honest.
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Vince

  • Can't climb; won't climb
Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #298 on: 25 February, 2013, 04:26:01 pm »
That would be Pocket ChildrenTM, would it?
216km from Marsh Gibbon

Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #299 on: 25 February, 2013, 10:38:45 pm »
I didn't have my camera tonight, so picture the scene..

As I was a-riding down a narrow residential street, with a narrowed traffic-calming section at yon end, there was a blaze, as of orange flashing lights, and a great cacophony, as of someone leaning impatiently on his horn.

Lo, it was the gritter, which was unable to proceed owing to the wee Corsa parked just at the narrowest section, upon lines of most impudent yellow, doubly so.

And verily, did the gritter driver resist the temptation of Satan, and did not strike down the Corsa with his great steel claws, but raised a greater cacophony, and there was much wailing and gnashing of teeth and cries of "don't you know what bloody time it is!" from the populace.

Sheepishly, the driver of the Corsa did emerge from the bookies and scuttled across to move it, allowing the gritter to go about its mighty work.