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(11337 posts)- Started 13 years ago by Stepdoh
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If it is CHAPS, based on their companies house listing it's a local father and son outfit;
https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/SC421120/officers
If you happened to be passing either of the registered address this evening I'm sure the van would be there to get the registration.
A small white Vauxhall CHAPS van clearly visible on Streetview here registration V469 HFS. Although that was in 2012 so it may have been replaced since then.
The 2014 photo of their other address has a white Citroen van outside (with a heavily abused windscreen and dashboard) but it's not branded and the reg has been partially obscured by Google, SOxx MMF.
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I think that may be the same van from which a wee lad in the passenger seat shouted unwarranted abuse at me as it overtook me when I was cycling up South Charlotte Street a couple of years back.
I blame the parents.
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Massive Luton van passed incredibly close passing dreghorn barracks earlier today during that ridiculous downpour. I was very unhappy about this fact!
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Roseburn Place at downpour/home time even more awash with rat-runners than usual (how is it so difficult to stick a bollard in the middle of that street? irrespective of what's happening with the CCWEL or whatever they call it now, it'd just make the whole place so much more pleasant) leaving no space on the eastbound lane. Particular credit goes to the genius who came off the main road at Tesco, tried to go down Roseburn Place, saw the queue and reversed back out to join the queue on Roseburn Street, swelling the queue of those turning right while they waited for him to complete the manoeuvre.
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Driver of "Chimney Maintenance" van (SM52 XYB) repeatedly beeping the horn and shouting "Get tae the left, ye *****" as I took primary past parked cars going up Mayfield Road.
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I was very naughty. Refused to yield to the car crossing into my lane coming off Middle Meadow Walk on the green light onto Forest Road. Everyone knows they have right of way due to their weight.
Chapped the boy's window.
Drivist: 'You came through that light on black. Green. Red!'
IWRATS:'Have you been drinking Sir?'
Drivist:'Eh no, did I do something wrong?'
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car crossing into my lane coming off Middle Meadow Walk on the green light onto Forest Road. Everyone knows they have right of way due to their weight.
Horribly common. Often without even a glance at what's in the left hand lane before driving into it.
Meadows-George St link is one of the Community Links+ bids, and would hopefully improve this, if it is chosen. I believe the winner will be announced next week.
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Horribly common. Often without even a glance
Aye, but the lane divider is worn to invisibility. Not their fault. And they have such momentum.
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@IWRATS
I have experienced that situation at MMW/Forrest Road on many occasions. To the point where last week I was frustrated enough to email the Council about it (something I don't often do). I've not had a response.
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@friskiffla - Good work. Did you contact a councillor or council officer?
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there used to be a video on youtube posted by a driver coming from Teviot Place to Forrest Road complaining that the cyclist coming from MMW to Forrest Road had run a red light. The driver deliberately close passed them. I and a few others corrected him but the video has since been taken down it seems which is a shame. It's indicative of both the fact that it is not clear to drivers there is a shared green phase there, and also that when it comes to cyclists it seems to be fair game to endanger someone's life because you perceive them to have transgressed - even if you are demonstrably wrong.
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@friskiffla
I may do the same, hopeless though it is. The simple solution is a physical pedestrian-permeable barrier between the two lanes for ten metres but they'd just drive into and over that.
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Regards exiting MMW onto Forrest Rd, I've come to the conclusion that's its best wait for a gap in traffic and cross to the island, whether or not the toucan light for bikes is green.
Then wait for a gap in the traffic approaching from Lauriston Pl. Usually you get to go before the traffic coming from Bristo starts, or at least in the dead-time between the light change.
Sorry for my RLJs. But "you gotta do what you gotta do"
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Seeing as MMW is a road-not-for-cars rather than a cycle path, the red light at the top means a red light, so my personal legal high ground retention paradigm requires me to obey it, then wait in the Lauriston Place feeder road (not the island, as it's tiny and criss-crossed by pedestrians) for a gap in the traffic from Teviot Place into which to insert myself.
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I take the @wingpig line. It shouldn't be necessary jump red lights to be safe on what is after all the jewel in the crown of south Edinburgh infrastructure.
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Holyrood Park 20mph road. Strava says I was doing 42-45kph
#L500 LEL
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-41301405
Top deck of bus gets sheared off (with passengers on board) at Western General. Seems kinda odd. The WGH bus will have a fixed route - what happened today?
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The driver failed to see the warning sign that clearance was 12'0" (and connect that information to the notice inside the cab telling him his vehicle is 14’9").
I should be in the collision investigation team with those skills :)
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The WGH bus will have a fixed route - what happened today?
That road (called Hospital Main Drive on OSM) isn't on the normal 113 route, which goes along Porterfield Road.
Most likely driver made a wrong turning?
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Mr Kennedy, who lives in Dalkeith, said it looked as though the driver could have gone on to the site through the wrong entrance.
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Was at hospital visiting dad and saw this. Due to the position of the shear approx top of seatback, it would have been terrifying for anyone on top deck.
Sincerely hope those injured are not serious.
Lucky it was a Sunday, prob not packed bus.
Definite wrong turn error, it is lodged just before the Maggies Centre if that helps.
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@toomanybikes
That's one for the police. They must've been doing over 40mph.
Needs to be stopped before they kill someone
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Ref the Polish driver's employer not having been informed, this merely shows a lack of, or lack of adherence to, a company procedure for checking licences, which should be in place. HSE will have a field day.
My employer had a system whereby all licences were to be checked annually by line management. Needless to say it seldom happened. Had managers realised that they could be held personally accountable for the consequences they might have been keener to do their job, but the organisation did not train them accordingly.
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Number 37 bus drives straight over advanced stop line on liberton gardens at liberton drive crossroads. As I arrive at the bike box, I knock on his window and point this out, mentioning that the space would be useful for me, on my bike. The response? 'Yeah but they aren't 24 hr are they?'. Either a) ignorant or b) nasty liar.
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@glasgow megasnake
Contact Lothian Buses? They're really good on that stuff - just say it's a training issue you don't want the dude sacked or anything.
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I will call all of these in from now on.
Dear Scottish Traffic Commissioners,
As I was heading to work this morning I saw the driver of a coach liveried as 'The Wee Red Bus' talking to his passengers whilst in motion southbound on South Clerk Street about 08h45.
https://www.heartofscotlandtours.co.uk/
As I understand it this is illegal.
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1981/14/section/24
allows for a fine of level 2 on the standard scale (£500) should any driver fail to follow these regulations;
http://legislation.data.gov.uk/uksi/1990/1020/made/data.htm?wrap=true
(1) A driver shall not, when a vehicle is in motion, hold a microphone or any attachment thereto unless it is necessary for him, either in an emergency or on grounds of safety, to speak into the microphone.
(2) Subject to paragraph (3), a driver shall not, when a vehicle is in motion, speak to any person either directly or by means of a microphone.
The driver seemed to have a microphone strapped to his chest and was addressing the passengers, clearly not giving his full attention to the road. Do you think you could have a stern word with this company's Transport Manager on behalf of the vulnerable road users of Edinburgh?
Thanks in advance,
IWRATS
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Good point IWRATS. The whole Driver-Guide system is highly dodgy on safety grounds. Sadly, it's not even a hypothetical issue, noting the recent fatality involving a tram-track and a closely-following tour bus driver.
Yet these firms are still advertising for Driver-Guides? (other tour companies are available)
Several friends of mine did this very job for years. I don't think any of them were ever made aware by their employers that this legislation even existed.
Posted 7 years ago # -
@Snowy
I am following @Morningsider's view on @Tulyar's pointing out the law in light of Ms Soh's death.
One of the Edinburgh Sustrans Cycling Officers' partners is a part-time driver/guide. Mad old world, innit?
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