Daily Heil tells lies... not news, but...Clickbait. Instead of clicking on the link, could you tell me a little bit about the story?
https://twitter.com/laura_laker/status/1380430322039410691 (https://twitter.com/laura_laker/status/1380430322039410691)
Frustrated residents in north Bristol have taken to street corners to provide double yellow lines where none exist.https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/news/rogue-yellow-lines-painted-by-residents-fed-up-inconsiderate-parking/
Campaigners also placed yellow lines over vehicles parked illegally, claiming that traffic and parking is largely unregulated and rarely enforced.
Not clickbait. On essence, Heil spoke bollocks about 'hate crime' covering cyclists, and lostDaily Heil tells lies... not news, but...Clickbait. Instead of clicking on the link, could you tell me a little bit about the story?
https://twitter.com/laura_laker/status/1380430322039410691 (https://twitter.com/laura_laker/status/1380430322039410691)
I can never understand when I see people out for a road ride (i.e doesn't look like they are commuting. No luggage etc.) at that time of day. It would make me miserable.
I can never understand when I see people out for a road ride (i.e doesn't look like they are commuting. No luggage etc.) at that time of day.If you saw our principal commuting from work he would look like a roadie out for a ride. No luggage and the lycra works. I reckon he's not the only commuter who does so in (as Flatus would say) cosplay.
I like the pub name. Perhaps that's why she isn't seen hereabouts so much these days.It's not the Despard, I can take the Despard...
Ah, the Archway Road subway, I used to get dragged along there as a small...Blimey that takes me back.
Here: https://goo.gl/maps/2sGUcsfaRiKLP8Qu7
The sign was removed at some point before 2017.
They've also added a cyclist to compensate for the lack of hitchikers.Ah, the Archway Road subway, I used to get dragged along there as a small...Blimey that takes me back.
Here: https://goo.gl/maps/2sGUcsfaRiKLP8Qu7
The sign was removed at some point before 2017.
The placement in the Cytology lab of the Whittington Hospital was so boring there was a scoreboard on the wall next to the window of the longest time it had taken a hitchhiker to get a lift at the start of the A1. Kept up to date by generations of bored juniors.
It looks like they've planted trees to put a stop to timing hitchhikers, put in a bus stop to put a stop to hitchhiking, and added a few decades to the scenery.
(It was 1972)
(https://scontent.flhr12-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/316135112_10160315170074549_7895368857506357888_n.jpg?_nc_cat=104&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=5cd70e&_nc_ohc=158BtrgDX0gAX9seUWH&_nc_ht=scontent.flhr12-1.fna&oh=00_AfAZWWoBdoQXmQy6nji3XwVqD7MKXWshIaPRPSkcRDNVAQ&oe=637D1A36)Reminds me of this:
From a FB group called "Shit London". I had a look on Google Maps for that sign - somewhere near Archway it would appear - but I couldn't find it. Not far from Helly's neck of the woods, I believe.
Yesterday, I was stopped at the traffic lights near $college. A Mk 1 Young Person crossed the road in front of me, paused halfway, picked up an empty plastic bottle that was rolling around in the breeze, and continued to exit stage right.Would this $college be the one in Longbridge?
Yesterday, I was stopped at the traffic lights near $college. A Mk 1 Young Person crossed the road in front of me, paused halfway, picked up an empty plastic bottle that was rolling around in the breeze, and continued to exit stage right.Would this $college be the one in Longbridge?
A Bristol restaurant owner has expressed anger that what used to host four tables and 16 seats has now been replaced by a parking bay.16 potential customers replaced by at most five, usually far less – to say nothing of the other effects on the street.
"One of the robots asked a lady if she would please press the button - I think she was rather surprised a robot was speaking to her," Ms Davies explained.https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-63821535
She said after three changes of the lights, the first robot crossed the road but she does not know how long the other six took, as "it was cold and I wanted to get home".
Comments on her Facebook post included, "they look so sad waiting on the kerb" and "they don't really have the ability to press the big buttons".
A 93km air conditioned covered cycleway has been proposed for Dubai, with the planning firm behind the idea claiming it could make cycling and walking the main mode of transport for 80 per cent of the city’s 3 million residents by 2040.
(https://road.cc/content/news/93km-air-conditioned-covered-cycleway-proposed-dubai-299063?amp)
Ditch the car!
Between 2013 and 2020 an average of 3.8 pedestrians died in collisions with a cyclist every yearalways does some heavy lifting in these stories (it's true, but that's any collision, even those where the pedestrian steps out in front of a cyclist).
Speaking of aggressive pedestrians:QuoteBetween 2013 and 2020 an average of 3.8 pedestrians died in collisions with a cyclist every yearalways does some heavy lifting in these stories (it's true, but that's any collision, even those where the pedestrian steps out in front of a cyclist).
Presumably she got to London in a large car, which definitely won't ruin anything, other than the world.
I've just streetviewed it, I can't see any sign that it is a shared path, no signs, no dropped kerbs, no tactile paving, narrow and covered in signs. Barely adequate as a footpath, no room for a cyclist and pedestrian to pass.Speaking of aggressive pedestrians:QuoteBetween 2013 and 2020 an average of 3.8 pedestrians died in collisions with a cyclist every yearalways does some heavy lifting in these stories (it's true, but that's any collision, even those where the pedestrian steps out in front of a cyclist).
Presumably she got to London in a large car, which definitely won't ruin anything, other than the world.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-64824436
The convict looks nice.
To show how stupid pavement psyclepaths are (often no different to pavements apart from a few signs), it took the court rather too long to determine that this was, in fact, a shared-use path.
I can't help wondering how it would have gone had the victim been an 18 year old boy.
I've just streetviewed it, I can't see any sign that it is a shared path, no signs, no dropped kerbs, no tactile paving, narrow and covered in signs. Barely adequate as a footpath, no room for a cyclist and pedestrian to pass.
I found the shared use sign, but it took some searching. It's just a normal pavement with a sign, not a widened psyclepath.Shared use sign is deffo there. Albeit hard to find.
Gloucestershire County Council has started to build a 26-mile (41.8km) cycle route that will connect Gloucester to Cheltenham.
I can't help wondering how it would have gone had the victim been an 18 year old boy.
This is what I thought too.
I can't help wondering how it would have gone had the victim been an 18 year old boy.
This is what I thought too.
Or the perpetrator been in a car
Bad BBC reporting. The planned full 26 mile route is from Stroud to Bishops Cleeve, with the Cheltenham to Gloucester bit in the middle being one of the sections they've got funding for.A map would have been a good inclusion in the article.
https://www.stroudnewsandjournal.co.uk/news/20142800.multi-million-pound-boost-26-mile-cycle-route-stroud/
Bad BBC reporting. The planned full 26 mile route is from Stroud to Bishops Cleeve, with the Cheltenham to Gloucester bit in the middle being one of the sections they've got funding for.A map would have been a good inclusion in the article.
https://www.stroudnewsandjournal.co.uk/news/20142800.multi-million-pound-boost-26-mile-cycle-route-stroud/
For those interested in the logic of the sentence for the person who pushed the cyclist into traffic handed down - here's a link to the judge's ruling.
https://rozenberg.substack.com/p/why-grey-got-three-years
Dr Krawiec, a children’s doctor, was riding to the clinic where she worked in Lavender Hill, Clapham Junction, when she was run over and killed by 68-year-old Kevin Allen at the junction of Southampton Row and Theobalds Road.
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Allen, from Forest Town, Nottinghamshire, has been handed an interim disqualification order by Judge Sarah Munro KC. The driving ban will be reviewed following the conclusion of the trial, which is due to open on 2 January 2024 and last five days.
Following the death of Dr Krawiec, both Stop Killing Cyclists and the London Cycling Campaign held protests at Holborn Gyratory, where despite several cyclists being killed in crashes involving large vehicles in the past decade or so, there is no physical protection from motor traffic for people on bikes.
Technology abounds that can help keep vulnerable road users (VRUs) safer. VRUs include pedestrians, wheelchair users, cyclists, motorcyclists and scooter riders. Together they are the majority of people killed by cars globally.https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-66912123
What a horrible, ugly term. It would be better and more honest to say "people".
Ultimately, Ms Hart points out, preventable tragedies from traffic violence don't just affect non-drivers. "Everyone gets out of their car, no matter where they live."
QuoteUltimately, Ms Hart points out, preventable tragedies from traffic violence don't just affect non-drivers. "Everyone gets out of their car, no matter where they live."
Clearly the solution is never to exit your car. Wherever you live.
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I am going to repeat the experiment.
Also random road stuff. I was overtaken this morning by an e-moped, who pulled in asap after passing me. Meaning that had it been more rainy I'd have been well spattered by their joke-mudguarded-only (it was spattering said e-moped rider) back wheel. Grumble. Traffic light separated us so I was unable to provide any education, sigh.