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On Wednesday 16 October 2013 14:27 Huge wrote in uk.d-i-y:
And this is my problem how, exactly? It was your problem (or your mother's) when you were 5 ish. Now the ball is with another generation... -- Tim Watts Personal Blog: http://squiddy.blog.dionic.net/ http://www.sensorly.com/ Crowd mapping of 2G/3G/4G mobile signal coverage |
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Dave Liquorice wrote: On Wed, 16 Oct 2013 01:27:35 -0700 (PDT), Onetap wrote: I've parked in "Parent & Child" bays when I used to take my Blue Badge holding 80+ year old father shopping and all the Blue Badge bays were taken. Invariably by ******* with no blue badge or no apparent disability and their mum's badge (or something). Pretty sure the the first and last are offences and the last will also risk the rightful holder having their Blue Badge taken away. The second is very thin ice and the change of scheme branding from "Disabled Parking" to "Blue Badge" was to remove the implication coming from "disabled" that it only meant those in wheelchairs or other outwardly obvious mobilty problems. My father had a Blue Badge early on beacuse he was registered blind, one eye and that had a cateract. With only one eye the "bad outcome" risk of having the cateract removed was significantly higher than some one with a "spare" eye. At that time he was just a "nice old gentleman" but he could barely see if there was any bright light about. As he got older mobilty became more of a problem and for anything over 50 yds he did use a wheelchair. presumably he didn't drive a car? -- From KT24 Using a RISC OS computer running v5.18 |
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On 16/10/2013 15:10, Tim Watts wrote:
On Wednesday 16 October 2013 14:27 Huge wrote in uk.d-i-y: And this is my problem how, exactly? It was your problem (or your mother's) when you were 5 ish. One that my mother solved by teaching me how to behave in and around traffic. Colin Bignell |
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"Tim Watts" wrote in message ... On Wednesday 16 October 2013 05:22 Nthkentman wrote in uk.d-i-y: "ARW" wrote in message ... I need to get some beer in before the England Poland football match. Now the question. Should I park in the disabled bay, the low emmission bay or the mother and child bay? A real man would have got the bitch to get the beers in before and had it poured ready... Pah ! Amateurs You are from Chatham and I claim my £5 LOL! I have lived and worked for many in Chatham matey many moons ago.... and they're far worse down there FFS! |
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On Wednesday, 16 October 2013 15:10:24 UTC+1, Tim Watts wrote:
On Wednesday 16 October 2013 14:27 Huge wrote in uk.d-i-y: And this is my problem how, exactly? It was your problem (or your mother's) when you were 5 ish. Wasn't with mine we never had a car, makes me wonder how we didn't stave to death. Now the ball is with another generation... -- Tim Watts Personal Blog: http://squiddy.blog.dionic.net/ http://www.sensorly.com/ Crowd mapping of 2G/3G/4G mobile signal coverage |
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On Wednesday 16 October 2013 15:48 Nightjar wrote in uk.d-i-y:
On 16/10/2013 15:10, Tim Watts wrote: On Wednesday 16 October 2013 14:27 Huge wrote in uk.d-i-y: And this is my problem how, exactly? It was your problem (or your mother's) when you were 5 ish. One that my mother solved by teaching me how to behave in and around traffic. Colin Bignell Yes - but that takes time and is not really a valid assumption for kids some-small-age. And supermarket car parks are full of morons/old biddies/other dangerous sods. -- Tim Watts Personal Blog: http://squiddy.blog.dionic.net/ http://www.sensorly.com/ Crowd mapping of 2G/3G/4G mobile signal coverage |
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Nightjar wrote: Parent and child bays are to protect *you*. Think about it - parent, 3 kids all piling out of the car, feet kicking against doors. Where do you think the edge of that door goes? Yes - into a nice little dent on *your* door. If so, why are they nearest to the shop doors and not out of everybody else's way on the far side of the car park? Why are motorbike bays always very close to the entrance? The average motorbike rider tends to be younger than the average car driver. And by nature reasonably fit. -- *Eschew obfuscation * Dave Plowman London SW To e-mail, change noise into sound. |
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Jethro_uk wrote:
On Tue, 15 Oct 2013 19:31:24 +0100, ARW wrote: I need to get some beer in before the England Poland football match. Now the question. Should I park in the disabled bay, the low emmission bay or the mother and child bay? Assuming you don't need the disabled bay, and aren't a ****, then the low emission bay. I am, of course, presuming you are child free - at least for this journey. But logically the real ****s are the people that correctly park in the LEZ spaces. If they have a car that emits less CO2 than others per mile then surely thay should be made to drive around the car park and park at the far end of of it. That's going to save more of the worlds resources than having the those of use wth less efficient cars do the extra mileage in the car park. I pulled a classic a couple of weeks ago in Bridlington on a Sunday. Pay and display - there was building works going on on South Marine Drive and as I was in a van I just shifted a couple of traffic cones and parked in the-) And yes I am a **** - but I would never park in a disabled bay unless I had a disabled passenger. And AC asked "See if there is a bay marked "**** with Parking Envy". Well I do not envy anyone who requires a disabled badge or has to help someone with a disabled badge. I just do not see the point of the other two types of parking bays. -- Adam |
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Sam Plusnet wrote:
In article , says... I need to get some beer in before the England Poland football match. Now the question. Should I park in the disabled bay, the low emmission bay or the mother and child bay? A really talented driver would somehow manage to block all three. A woman probably do that, it would not make her a talented driver. -- Adam |
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wrote: Jethro_uk wrote: On Tue, 15 Oct 2013 19:31:24 +0100, ARW wrote: I need to get some beer in before the England Poland football match. Now the question. Should I park in the disabled bay, the low emmission bay or the mother and child bay? Assuming you don't need the disabled bay, and aren't a ****, then the low emission bay. I am, of course, presuming you are child free - at least for this journey. But logically the real ****s are the people that correctly park in the LEZ spaces. If they have a car that emits less CO2 than others per mile then surely thay should be made to drive around the car park and park at the far end of of it. That's going to save more of the worlds resources than having the those of use wth less efficient cars do the extra mileage in the car park. I pulled a classic a couple of weeks ago in Bridlington on a Sunday. Pay and display - there was building works going on on South Marine Drive and as I was in a van I just shifted a couple of traffic cones and parked in the-) And yes I am a **** - but I would never park in a disabled bay unless I had a disabled passenger. And AC asked "See if there is a bay marked "**** with Parking Envy". Well I do not envy anyone who requires a disabled badge or has to help someone with a disabled badge. I just do not see the point of the other two types of parking bays. I could see the point of Low Energy bays if they wer equipped with chargung socket for electric vehicles. The Mother and toddler bays tend to be wider, this allowing a mother to open a back door fully so that she can get the child out safely. [for mother read father if relevant] -- From KT24 Using a RISC OS computer running v5.18 |
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Huge wrote: On 2013-10-16, charles wrote: The Mother and toddler bays tend to be wider, this allowing a mother to open a back door fully so that she can get the child out safely. [for mother read father if relevant] So what? She should have thought of that before she popped it out. so what is to stop banging the body of the car next door. -- From KT24 Using a RISC OS computer running v5.18 |
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Nor my local primary school assures me, can anyone do anything about ******s parking on yellow zig tags outside the school - this is by parents at drop off & pick up times FFS.
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On Wednesday 16 October 2013 18:33 Jim K wrote in uk.d-i-y:
Nor my local primary school assures me, can anyone do anything about ******s parking on yellow zig tags outside the school - this is by parents at drop off & pick up times FFS. Jim K Our lollypop lady cuts their balls off, metaphorically. Gawd help anyone who does that here! -- Tim Watts Personal Blog: http://squiddy.blog.dionic.net/ http://www.sensorly.com/ Crowd mapping of 2G/3G/4G mobile signal coverage |
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On 16/10/2013 18:33, Jim K wrote:
Nor my local primary school assures me, can anyone do anything about ******s parking on yellow zig tags outside the school - this is by parents at drop off & pick up times FFS. Didn't one of our political leaders state recently that councils should NOT use their traffic enforcement camera vehicles to obtain evidence for this type of illegal parking. Around my way the "parent" campaigners have succeeded in getting 24/365 20mph speed limits and road humps around most of the schools. If you go past most of them at school run time it's the same parents parked on crossings, double parked in the road, parked on pavements etc. -- mailto:news{at}admac(dot}myzen{dot}co{dot}uk |
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On Wed, 16 Oct 2013 19:13:48 +0100, alan wrote:
Around my way the "parent" campaigners have succeeded in getting 24/365 20mph speed limits and road humps around most of the schools. If you go past most of them at school run time it's the same parents parked on crossings, double parked in the road, parked on pavements etc. They're merely demonstrating the need... |
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Dave Liquorice wrote:
On Tue, 15 Oct 2013 22:19:42 +0100, John Rumm wrote: I need to get some beer in before the England Poland football match. Now the question. Should I park in the disabled bay, the low emmission bay or the mother and child bay? Since you won't have drunk the beer yet, the low emmisions zone sounds fine ;-) I have Adam down a lager drinker rather than Draught Bass. B-) John Smiths:-) I am not a lager drinker. -- Adam |
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nl.ipv4.ptr.145.109.x.invalid, says... (Snip a lot) (And up here in Northumberland they're allowed park free! WHY!!!???? Are they poorer than me? You would like the people who run the Three Counties Showground near the Malverns. Their website states that they refuse to discriminate against the disabled - so they can pay the full whack to get in, just like anyone else. -- Sam |
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On Wed, 16 Oct 2013 17:14:59 +0100, Another John wrote:
I'm not talking about yellow lines, I'm talking about double-yellows. Blue badge holders often park in our local town on the doubles, thus effectively blocking one side of the street for anything bigger than another car -- for example a fire engine, or an ambulance. Not to mention the sheer, simple, buggeration caused to all ordinary car users. They do that outside the Co-op here. There is a carpark right next to it and I think in the 13 odd years we have lived here I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of times there hasn't been spaces free in it... Lazy, inconsiderate gits. A year or so back I did a FOE request to the local council about when traffic wardens had visited over the previous 12 months. They only visit when the single yellow lines are active (Easter to October ish) and then only a couple of days a month. So who enforces the double yellows? No one... The Police don't do it unless there is a serious obstruction and then only reluctantly. -- Cheers Dave. |
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On Wed, 16 Oct 2013 11:36:17 +0100, GB wrote:
Well, it's technically a parent and child bay - so borrow the sprog. Or take a parent ... I've parked in "Parent & Child" bays when I used to take my Blue Badge holding 80+ year old father shopping and all the Blue Badge bays were taken. I can't do that, as I'm an orphan. Sniff. I can't any more either. Though it does just say "Parent & Child" so as I'm a parent and *anybody* else is a child (of some one) ... -- Cheers Dave. |
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On Wed, 16 Oct 2013 15:42:27 +0100, charles wrote:
My father had a Blue Badge early on beacuse he was registered blind, one eye and that had a cateract. With only one eye the "bad outcome" risk of having the cateract removed was significantly higher than some one with a "spare" eye. At that time he was just a "nice old gentleman" but he could barely see if there was any bright light about. As he got older mobilty became more of a problem and for anything over 50 yds he did use a wheelchair. presumably he didn't drive a car? Not for a good few years before he got the Blue Badge. The Blue Badge is for the person not a particular car so I don't understand the relevancy of your question. If I took him shopping we'd have the Blue Badge in my car, if my sister took him it would be in her car. -- Cheers Dave. |
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On Wed, 16 Oct 2013 10:51:25 +0100, Andy Burns wrote:
If any supermarket would convert *all* their spaces to wide bays, I'd shop there to avoid trolley dings and handbag scratches on my car. Not a problem out in the sticks, supermarket carpark bays are sized for Landrovers. Also as Landrovers have the turning circle of a dead whale, the roadways between the rows are wider. Occasionally I visit supermarkets in suburbia and the space available is noticeably tighter. Really bad ones need a three point turn to get out of a bay with only 9" clearance each side, that's clearance to the car either side not to the line. Bonus marks if they'd get rid of the immigrant workers offering to drag a damp, gritty rag over the paintwork ... Must be another feature of suburbian supermarket carparks, the carwashes on such car parks around here use pressure washers and vacuum cleaners. -- Cheers Dave. |
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On 16 Oct 2013 13:26:26 GMT, Huge wrote:
If any supermarket would convert *all* their spaces to wide bays, I'd shop there to avoid trolley dings and handbag scratches on my car. Costco! Not your average supermarket, I agree... Not the one in Milton Keynes. The spaces there are standard Euro size. Gosh that does surprise me. All the Costco's I have visited could almost have come out of the same mould, from the wide parking bays to where abouts the goods are on the racking. Streetview does confirm the lack of wide bays. -- Cheers Dave. |
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Tim Watts wrote:
On Wednesday 16 October 2013 15:48 Nightjar wrote in uk.d-i-y: On 16/10/2013 15:10, Tim Watts wrote: On Wednesday 16 October 2013 14:27 Huge wrote in uk.d-i-y: And this is my problem how, exactly? It was your problem (or your mother's) when you were 5 ish. One that my mother solved by teaching me how to behave in and around traffic. Colin Bignell Yes - but that takes time and is not really a valid assumption for kids some-small-age. And supermarket car parks are full of morons/old biddies/other dangerous sods. So is the rest of the country:-) The most concentrated piece of bad and dangerous group parking is outside a school when the Mums park up (by park up I mean just leave the car where it stops) -- Adam |
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On 16 Oct 2013 11:05:10 GMT, Huge wrote:
Costco, though not quite a supermarket. Spaces wide enough for American cars containing Americans. Not in the UK. 99% sure that Haydock and Manchester do. Gateshead definitely has wide bays. -- Cheers Dave. |
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On 16/10/2013 19:13, alan wrote:
On 16/10/2013 18:33, Jim K wrote: Nor my local primary school assures me, can anyone do anything about ******s parking on yellow zig tags outside the school - this is by parents at drop off & pick up times FFS. Didn't one of our political leaders state recently that councils should NOT use their traffic enforcement camera vehicles to obtain evidence for this type of illegal parking.... The question is whether it is illegal. The Highway Code suggests that it is covered by the Road Traffic Regulation Act, but the sections mentioned require there to be a Traffic Order in place. However, the Road Signs Regulations and General Directions do not seem to require a traffic order for school entrance markings to be placed. Colin Bignell |
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On 16/10/2013 20:14, ARW wrote:
Tim Watts wrote: On Wednesday 16 October 2013 15:48 Nightjar wrote in uk.d-i-y: On 16/10/2013 15:10, Tim Watts wrote: On Wednesday 16 October 2013 14:27 Huge wrote in uk.d-i-y: And this is my problem how, exactly? It was your problem (or your mother's) when you were 5 ish. One that my mother solved by teaching me how to behave in and around traffic. Colin Bignell Yes - but that takes time and is not really a valid assumption for kids some-small-age. And supermarket car parks are full of morons/old biddies/other dangerous sods. So is the rest of the country:-) The most concentrated piece of bad and dangerous group parking is outside a school when the Mums park up (by park up I mean just leave the car where it stops) When I were a lad, we simply walked to and from school. While at infant's school, there would be a parent (not necessarily our own) waiting to see us across the busiest roads, but the others we crossed on our own. From primary school onwards, we were left to our own devices, although with strong warnings about not talking to strangers and never getting into a car. Colin Bignell |
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On Wednesday 16 October 2013 20:14 ARW wrote in uk.d-i-y:
The most concentrated piece of bad and dangerous group parking is outside a school when the Mums park up (by park up I mean just leave the car where it stops) You mean the 3rd official method of parking: crab into the kerb until something goes "crunch" indicating successful parking? -- Tim Watts Personal Blog: http://squiddy.blog.dionic.net/ http://www.sensorly.com/ Crowd mapping of 2G/3G/4G mobile signal coverage |
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On Wednesday 16 October 2013 20:45 Nightjar wrote in uk.d-i-y:
When I were a lad, we simply walked to and from school. While at infant's school, there would be a parent (not necessarily our own) waiting to see us across the busiest roads, but the others we crossed on our own. From primary school onwards, we were left to our own devices, although with strong warnings about not talking to strangers and never getting into a car. Colin Bignell Off topic, here's a piccy I found of my old school (now demolished): http://www.bansteadvillage.com/picture/number19.asp (we ate lunch in that nissan hut). It was cooked at the middle school and bussed down in an SCC van, so the custard was congeald and *really* lumpy by the time we got it. Someone always puked in the queue outside that hut so the playground was littered with little piles of sawdust. And here's our school Xmas play: http://www.bansteadvillage.com/picture/number108.asp I would have been 8. I should be in there somewhere - but as everyone had pudding bowl haircuts, I'm not entirely sure! I might also be hiding - I hated plays!!! -- Tim Watts Personal Blog: http://squiddy.blog.dionic.net/ http://www.sensorly.com/ Crowd mapping of 2G/3G/4G mobile signal coverage |
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Tim Watts wrote:
Off topic, here's a piccy I found of my old school (now demolished): http://www.bansteadvillage.com/picture/number19.asp (we ate lunch in that nissan hut). It's not a nissan hut, unless you kept an early Japanese car in it. You mean a Nissen hut... and it's not one of those either because they have a more or less semicircular cross-section. They must have been a nightmare to use with the weird sloping walls. There's a famous one in Orkney which was decorated by Italian POWs in WWII: http://www.visitscotland.com/info/se...chapel-p253741 -- Jeremy C B Nicoll - my opinions are my own. Email sent to my from-address will be deleted. Instead, please reply to replacing "aaa" by "284". |
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On Wednesday 16 October 2013 21:19 Jeremy Nicoll - news posts wrote in uk.d-
i-y: Tim Watts wrote: Off topic, here's a piccy I found of my old school (now demolished): http://www.bansteadvillage.com/picture/number19.asp (we ate lunch in that nissan hut). It's not a nissan hut, unless you kept an early Japanese car in it. You mean a Nissen hut... and it's not one of those either because they have a more or less semicircular cross-section. They must have been a nightmare to use with the weird sloping walls. Ok - so green tin hut. But it was cold and teh windows were running with condensation and the dinner ladies beat us if we did not eat our liver and bacon. There's a famous one in Orkney which was decorated by Italian POWs in WWII: http://www.visitscotland.com/info/se...chapel-p253741 That is a bit fancy! -- Tim Watts Personal Blog: http://squiddy.blog.dionic.net/ http://www.sensorly.com/ Crowd mapping of 2G/3G/4G mobile signal coverage |
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K writes Nor my local primary school assures me, can anyone do anything about ******s parking on yellow zig tags outside the school - this is by parents at drop off & pick up times FFS. Jim K They the absolute worst most inconsiderate drivers ever - and then have the nerve to complain about others. -- bert |
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writes On 16/10/2013 18:33, Jim K wrote: Nor my local primary school assures me, can anyone do anything about ******s parking on yellow zig tags outside the school - this is by parents at drop off & pick up times FFS. Didn't one of our political leaders state recently that councils should NOT use their traffic enforcement camera vehicles to obtain evidence for this type of illegal parking. Around my way the "parent" campaigners have succeeded in getting 24/365 20mph speed limits and road humps around most of the schools. Ours are only at school start and end times - when it is impossible to do anything like 20 mph because of all the parents parked cars. If you go past most of them at school run time it's the same parents parked on crossings, double parked in the road, parked on pavements etc. -- bert |
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On Wed, 16 Oct 2013 19:44:29 +0100, ARW wrote:
Since you won't have drunk the beer yet, the low emmisions zone sounds fine ;-) I have Adam down a lager drinker rather than Draught Bass. B-) John Smiths:-) I am not a lager drinker. Well it's not lager but is it beer? -- Cheers Dave. |
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On 16/10/2013 17:45, ARW wrote:
And yes I am a **** - but I would never park in a disabled bay unless I had a disabled passenger. And AC asked "See if there is a bay marked "**** with Parking Envy". Well I do not envy anyone who requires a disabled badge or has to help someone with a disabled badge. I just do not see the point of the other two types of parking bays. About the only time the "with children" ones are useful is when they are of an age where you need to lift the whole car seat in and out with baby inside. Then the ability to open the doors wide is handy. -- Cheers, John. /================================================== ===============\ | Internode Ltd - http://www.internode.co.uk | |-----------------------------------------------------------------| | John Rumm - john(at)internode(dot)co(dot)uk | \================================================= ================/ |
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On 16/10/2013 17:58, Huge wrote:
On 2013-10-16, charles wrote: The Mother and toddler bays tend to be wider, this allowing a mother to open a back door fully so that she can get the child out safely. [for mother read father if relevant] So what? She should have thought of that before she popped it out. Probably did - downside, stretch marks and sleepless night, but a plus, I can park closer to the shop! -- Cheers, John. /================================================== ===============\ | Internode Ltd - http://www.internode.co.uk | |-----------------------------------------------------------------| | John Rumm - john(at)internode(dot)co(dot)uk | \================================================= ================/ |
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On 16/10/2013 19:47, Dave Liquorice wrote:
On Wed, 16 Oct 2013 17:14:59 +0100, Another John wrote: I'm not talking about yellow lines, I'm talking about double-yellows. Blue badge holders often park in our local town on the doubles, thus effectively blocking one side of the street for anything bigger than another car -- for example a fire engine, or an ambulance. Not to mention the sheer, simple, buggeration caused to all ordinary car users. They do that outside the Co-op here. There is a carpark right next to it and I think in the 13 odd years we have lived here I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of times there hasn't been spaces free in it... Lazy, inconsiderate gits. A year or so back I did a FOE request to the local council about when traffic wardens had visited over the previous 12 months. They only visit when the single yellow lines are active (Easter to October ish) and then only a couple of days a month. So who enforces the double yellows? No one... The Police don't do it unless there is a serious obstruction and then only reluctantly. Round here, at either end of the parallel road, we have a primary school and only a quarter mile away, a hospital. Every day the traffic wardens target the parking spaces on the road outside the hospital, booking people who are in marked parking places, but have overstayed due to late running appointments, etc. Meanwhile, parents parking for the two schools make it impossible to pull safely out of either end of our road due their parking right up to (and even partly round) the junctions, blocking any view of traffic trying to enter or leave the junctions. Despite contacting the council, the wardens continue to target the safe, but unavoidably detained patients and carers, while ignoring the dangerously parked parents. The two places are just about visible from each other! SteveW |
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On 16/10/2013 10:01, Nightjar wrote:
On 16/10/2013 09:50, Tim Watts wrote: On Wednesday 16 October 2013 09:29 Another John wrote in uk.d-i-y: "ARW" wrote in message I need to get some beer in before the England Poland football match. Now the question. Should I park in the disabled bay, the low emmission bay or the mother and child bay? Good one Adam. (1) Thing is: what can they do to you if you just ignore these priggish reservations? (2) rant Never heard of "low emission bays" (WTF!!???), no sympathy whatsoever with "Mother and Child Bays" (awwwwwwwww!!!!), Parent and child bays are to protect *you*. Think about it - parent, 3 kids all piling out of the car, feet kicking against doors. Where do you think the edge of that door goes? Yes - into a nice little dent on *your* door. If so, why are they nearest to the shop doors and not out of everybody else's way on the far side of the car park? Colin Bignell It makes sense to have them close to the shop, as in most cases pedestrians must walk along the car park roadways, while trying to protect their children from drivers that suddenly reverse out without looking. Being close minimises the distance that parents must try to escort children, in many cases too short to be seen when behind a car, while both hands are occupied steering the shopping trolley. SteveW |
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On 16/10/2013 23:24, John Rumm wrote:
On 16/10/2013 17:58, Huge wrote: On 2013-10-16, charles wrote: The Mother and toddler bays tend to be wider, this allowing a mother to open a back door fully so that she can get the child out safely. [for mother read father if relevant] So what? She should have thought of that before she popped it out. Probably did - downside, stretch marks and sleepless night, but a plus, I can park closer to the shop! and get a flat on the social. Colin Bignell |
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On 16/10/2013 21:43, Dave Liquorice wrote:
On Wed, 16 Oct 2013 19:44:29 +0100, ARW wrote: Since you won't have drunk the beer yet, the low emmisions zone sounds fine ;-) I have Adam down a lager drinker rather than Draught Bass. B-) John Smiths:-) I am not a lager drinker. Well it's not lager but is it beer? Not as we know it Jim..... -- Dave - The Medway Handyman www.medwayhandyman.co.uk |
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SteveW wrote: It makes sense to have them close to the shop, as in most cases pedestrians must walk along the car park roadways, while trying to protect their children from drivers that suddenly reverse out without looking. Just make sure your trolley is at the front. Great fun when they reverse into that. -- *A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. Dave Plowman London SW To e-mail, change noise into sound. |
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