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CCE is 15years old!
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sticky@gembo: He's getting rather old but he's a good mouse.
White van doing at least 40 in the 20mph bit at the western end of Braid Hills Road the other day. Suspect he was irked by having to stop for the TTLs on Braid Road where no work has been done since lockdown began. Still not an excuse for it, though.
Pink Floyd would have been just another blues outfit without Syd and they knew it. He could get carrier bags of cash from the record company. I was outside his house once in cambridge.
Rubbish driving and further rubbish humaning:
Police in Scotland are searching for a driver who stopped his Land Rover to assault a cyclist in Perth & Kinross last weekend.
The incident happened at around 5.30pm on Saturday 25 April at the junction of the A9 and A822 near Dunkeld.
Officers say that the assault, which came after the motorist almost struck the male rider with his vehicle, only ended when the cyclist’s partner, with whom he was riding, intervened.
https://road.cc/content/news/police-appeal-after-assault-cyclist-scotland-273183
I was outside his house once in cambridge
top lyricist, crap town
he should have moved north
He lived in very suburban part of that Disneyland of the Fens.
He liked it as a. He came from there and b. He could get about on his bicycle.
Hilarious/annoying encounter with a driver yesterday.
He pulled a slightly aggressive overtake on the road in Musselburgh that leads to the pedestrian/cycle bridge. Parked up just afterwards, flung the drivers door open and set off across the road without so much as glancing in my direction.
"LOOK!" I shouted, just to make him aware of my presence. He jumped a mile, as if he had no idea that there could be a cyclist there.
You just passed me. Dozy bloke.
Doing daily exercise with the kids cycling through the park and round the seat. Shouted at twice then punishment passed by a large Luton van for not using the paths. Very difficult to social distance on the paths which is why it is completely crazy the roads through the park are even open. Instead of that it seems cars are free to drive through on a Sunday, and commercial vehicles can drive right past the police and endanger small children without even the bat of an eyelid.
@algo - Police may well be interested in some feedback: https://twitter.com/EdinPolSE/status/1258369590943461377 ?
Frenchy - I see Nick Cook has posted some nonsense on the twitter feed. Being an even bigger bawbag than usual here!
@CllrNickCook
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May 7
Replying to
@EdinPolSE
Right. So no reminders on green cross code for pedestrians or safe cycling for taxpayers though?
FFS Nick, the central HQ memo only came out yesterday and you've forgotten already. To go over it again - stick to a pro cycling line to distract from the C19 feck up.
@gembo - in fairness, Nick tweeted that on Thursday, before HQ's memo came out.
Not that that improves it much.
A driver, no doubt thinking I was a new cyclist, gave the me the following advice on my lunchtime cycle today: "If you want to cycle on the roads you've got to stick to the left".
Great advice. I will follow it always.
Hope you asked if his (I presume) journey was essential mga.
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Police said: "Having a supercar meeting in Cumbria/ Lakes is NOT essential. Approximately 10 Super Cars escorted back the motorway and sent to their respective county's."
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https://www.lancs.live/news/lancashire-news/police-break-up-huge-lake-18262524.amp
Out at the Woolfords wind farm today about ten cars (one with flat batterY) and a minibus. Maybe work related??? No sign of work vans tho. Usually Hazel’s Hounds van parked there
Two cars waiting to turn right from Comiston Road in to Braidburn Terrace yesterday evening about 6pm. Southbound traffic levels were much closer to 'normal' then last observed so they had to wait a fair while. When the lights changed, the first car - which probably had been waiting past the stop line - set off to turn right. The second car, which definitely hadn't been behind the stop line because I saw it cross it, followed the first car through.
Trouble was, I was waiting for a green light to proceed straight on from Braidburn Terrace in to Greenbank Crescent. For some reason the westbound side of the west end of Braidburn Terrace has been barriered off, meaning that I had to ride around the end of the barrier i.e. on the right hand side of the road. Both cars, of course, cut the corner as tight as they could (because it's such hard work turning the steering wheel in a modern hatchback). My light had been green for a good number of seconds when the second car came through, missing the barrier end by no more than a few inches. If I'd moved straight away when my light turned green the result would likely not have been pretty.
If the barriers hadn't been there then I'd have been on my side of the road and able to pass safely behind the second car, probably as soon as my light had turned green. It would just have been yet another red light jumping motorist, but not an immediate threat.
I don't actually understand why that end of Braidburn Terrace is barriered like that. Motor vehicles are allowed to enter the road from that end, so all the barriers do is create an obstacle for cyclists legitimately wanting to exit. I rather suspect that the presence of the barriers led Miss Can't-Possibly-Wait-Any-Longer to assume, mistakenly, that no-one would be coming the other way. I did point out to her, through her open driver's window, that her light had been red when she moved off, but she affected (through not very well) not to have heard me.
Anyone know where I can complain about these unhelpfully deployed barriers? ISTR that there is (or was) an ECC Twitter account that you can post such things to but blowed if I can remember what it is. I have video evidence of the problem to back up my complaint.
I think @edinhelp is probably the twitter account you're looking for.
Local councillors should be able to help too (Nick Cook, Melanie Main, Neil Ross and Mandy Watt).
@Frenchy: Thanks, I've reported to @edinhelp along with a couple of photos of the offending barriers, and oncoming cars, to illustrate the issue.
Is there a Police Scotland email I can use to request speed enforcement in the city centre? Had to drive yesterday and the amount of people that were just shooting past me on Queen Street was deeply annoying. Almost as annoying as being overtaken by a works van when I was doing 20 on Leith Walk (only to, of course, catch up to him at the lights).
Contact details for the City Centre community police are here: https://www.scotland.police.uk/your-community/edinburgh/south-east-ec/city-centre/
I watched one of the many open topped sports cars returning from or setting out on jaunts yesterday undertake another vehicle on Minto Street at about 60mph. The front off-side suspension unit was clearly defective as the wheel came clean off the ground on a small pothole.
Quite a lot of cars on the road out to Musselburgh and one young driver made a comment that I should be in the bike lane.
Clearly an inexperienced driver as
1) he was not looking ahead properly or he would have noticed how close the peds were to the road and that I would be too close to them if I was in the bike lane
2) there were cars in the bike lane (shock!) about 50m ahead so I would have to pull out anyway
3) cyclists do not need to use the bike lane
Time held up less than 1 sec but clearly irked that he had to pull out a bit further.
I did shout back asking if he had heard of social distancing but I think he was just a rubbish driver.
Six motorbikes and two boy racers in a race on whang 12 noon. Mentalists
A vehicle had managed to lose its rear axle at the Frogston Rd/A701 crossroad this afternoon. It looked like a Lego car when the wheel brick isn't stuck on properly. There was a chap on a bike waiting near me at the lights, and he grimly said 'well that's the end of lockdown'.
On Castle Terrace there was a row of glossy-looking Minis, which I suspect had driven more than five miles to get there.
Down at llama land in south Lanarkshire ( Rye Flatts Road) vicinity a car living in the tributary of the Clyde. Not been out that way since before lockdown but must have happened previously as quite rusty all over. So maybe I have just never spotted it before. Also no obvious way it got there. Angler sitting on bank of the Clyde before Quothquan on my way back, his parking fine. Just adding to the end of lockdown reports. I hear from one of the sunbathers that thriepmuir beach was busy and the water not too cold
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