Drivers and their problems

I'm old enough to remember such things also,and the carbon paper card imprint machines,and I'm not a pensioner either yet but East Suffolk council car parks have swapped to this cashless system and I've alot of sympathy with these OAPs if their system is as convoluted as ours.

Ive spent longer navigating the phone system,its speech recognition needs more work, than Ive needed time to park. No one can convince me that it's easier than just popping a 50p in a machine & printing a ticket.

With all the ANPR cameras there are, surely it should just be automated! One strike with no MOT or VED, the registered owner gets a letter as a polite warning. 2nd strike is 3 points etc. 

The next issue would be the masking of plates like they are apparently suffering with in NY but that should just be a ticket from either a Policeman or Parking Enforcement. Again, letter the first time, points after that.

it would appear that the head of the IOPC had to resign, and not quickly enough, over serious allegations, sex with a minor

And when he was appointed as the first Director General of the IOPC, during the fanfare about how the police compaints process was to be radically overhauled, the BBC article stated:

Director general of the IOPC Michael Lockwood said: "Public confidence in policing is best served by robust and independent oversight

Of course, people in public life are proved innocent of scurrilous accusations, but that requires diligent impeccable police work, so it was impossible for him to remain in charge of the body overseeing complaints against the police. All this is important to me, of course, in my ceaseless quest to sort out Lancashire Constabulary.

I had assumed it was nothing to do with it being easier. It's cheaper for the council, because they don5 have to pay staff to go around emptying machines, and That Is All That Matters.

Not just that, machines get vandalised and the money is stolen too. Gets a bit expensive after just 2 events.

Yes it's absolutely about saving the council money, but they always claim its "easier" to use, to sell it to people.

The apps work well -easy to use.
Apps - you can extent your time with no hassle, you can pay ahead eg station , you can pay from your bed if you have parked overnight and the charges kick in from 8.

They do,once you battle through all the registration parts, but you need a good data signal still which is not always guaranteed.

I hate it when you're expected to download an app or register on a website for what's basically a one off transaction (ordering a snack in a cafe, parking a car, etc)

Eh?

Delivery van drivers finds out that his vehicle is not amphibious after all. Walcot Ford again, water level is not far below the 4' marker.

Here is street view - with low flow.

And "some expensive cars being towed out" of the floods on the B4213 in Gloucestershire:

https://twitter.com/Oskar_Brennan/status/1614355504121380864

That's weird, this morning it as definitely showing as "Vehicle details could not be found". I withdraw the something fishy allegation, though I still reckon she's trying for replacement rather than repair!

Delivery van drivers finds out that his vehicle is not amphibious after all

It's time to paraphrase Apocalypse Now again:

The Joy! TheJoy!!

Wouldn't filling the void with huge amounts of concrete and aggregate be an effective solution?

And what on earth is wrong with running more freight trains?...

hirsute wrote:

Seasonal one. Not a good ad for armoured personnel carriers though ! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-64082342

I hope that "wedged in a hedge" takes over from elf on a shelf

Isn't the idea to park with wheels angled so it does not go onto a road?

Update - hilarious, she was still standing next to it, and seems to have left the parking break off. Hit 3 vehicles.

Which Arndale Centre, you say it like there is only one? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arndale_Centre

As someone who had to pay nearly a grand to get my headlights replaced (its a BMW so my bad) after driving through the "puddle" which appears everything it rains on Sandon Road Stafford (its got its own Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/helpforsandonroad/ ) why would you risk it?

More money than sense perhaps?

David9694 wrote:

Woman claims Wales and West Utilities won't pay to fix her car smashed by road sign

so your street parked "life", "pride and joy" had two flat tyres when this happened and you've decided not to get the the glass done, even. 

'The 37-year-old said: "My car was undriveable at the time because I had two flat tyres and I had warned them: 'Please don't put your stuff so close to my car, it's a custom car, it's expensive, it's my pride and joy, it's my life because I'm disabled and I have got three kids.

"All I want is exactly what I had prior to the damage, and that's what I'm entitled to. I've not had a car for weeks now, I've got three children and my partner works nights. It is not ideal before Christmas. What am I supposed to do? I've got to run around in taxis now. It's ridiculous.

...I've been fobbed off with them telling me: 'We're not happy with this, we're not happy with that'. I'm not being funny, but it's all there to see.

"I'm not asking for a new gearbox, new mirrors, new wheels, nothing, but the problem is, the car does have to be resprayed so it's matching. The window needs sorting. The inside of the car is pretty waterlogged now because it was left for a whole 24 hours. Because my garage is the only place which has the custom paint, they were not happy with the cost..."'

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/woman-claims-wales-west-ut...

This is easily fixed. Claim through her own insurance and let the insurer battle to cover their costs.

My suspicion is that her insurer won't cover the custom paint job at the price her garage is wanting either - nor the water damage to the interior if that's happened while they're arguing about it, rather than a temporary fix being put in place.

Shunted back by the 2.5T range rover is my guess

David9694 wrote:

"I'm an advanced driver"..."I actually feel I could have carried on and driven straight through the traffic lights without any problem"

A deluded driver, more like.  A pity they won't revoke his licence based on his comments in that article.  And the licences of all the idiot commenters.