How does that make it legal to obstruct the foot path, or the road? The A6, near me, has a speed camera on it and I regularly drive past it. There is a cycle lane on the road and 99% of the time 2 cars parked on the road, across the cycle way and onto the foot path. I keep meaning to write to the police to ask if they book someone for speeding, do they book the visible car that has parked as above.
Dave
Our local council has put cycle lanes on some footpaths that were never designed to have them. All the white lines were put down along with pedestrian and cycle symbols, but guess who got the lampposts in the middle of the path.
On another subject, when did pelican crossings have their sounds for the blind, telling that it was safe to cross, get removed. They have the knobbly flag stones but no way to let them know it is safe to cross.
Dave
Go for the paint, it costs a lot more than a spring back mirror :-)
Dave
In message , "dennis@home" writes
no - I called you an eejit
I also stated that the car was in the same position as the photo taken by the NCP employee
eejit
end of post
Probably not a good point to jump in here, but a couple weeks ago, I went to buy my morning paper and couldn't park in the lay-by that I normally use. Turned out to be a good thing really.
NCP (now where have I seen that before) were booking cars in the lay-by. The yellow lines were all but non existent, had no deliminator bars at the end of the lines, had traffic calming bult into one end, thus deleting the end deliminator bar. I went over to talk to him. He was one of the most ignorant men that I have ever come across. He wouldn't open up a dialogue, let alone speak to me. I went away in disgust.
Later in the day, I asked our son, who is a police officer in the Manchester force about it and he more or less said that if there was any evidence that there had been any yellow lines there, they could issue a ticket. Now my understanding of the law is that both sides have to play by the rules. Yellow lines have to be there, be continuous, be marked at the end of the no parking zone with a deliminator and be of the defined colour. As I wrote above, the lines have almost been obliterated over the years. I must take a look in the morning to see if the local scroats have left the no parking signs up.
Am I wrong, or could Mr. Loop Hole get me off on this?
Dave
There is also a 50% chance that your speedo is reading high. The last 3 cars I have bought, all read high at every speed from 30 to 70 MPH according to a GPS and the police's own speed check trailers (no cameras, just a speed detector.) One by as much as 4 MPH at 30. At an indicated 85 MPH, I doubt that any traffic cop would have stopped me and issued a ticket.
Dave
In message , Dave writes
There is a definition of what yellow lines are
look it up, if they are not continuous, etc, then they can't be legally binding IMO
See if you can download the first episode of "Dom Joly's complainers" (which is on CH5 on monday at 10pm), they had someone that who went into the legalities in sufficient detail to give you an idea
plus, watching a clamper get clamped was also worth a watch
That's why the residential speed limits were introduced. So that emergency stops can be performed at the point of someone crossing the road unware of the potential collision heading their way.
Though at higher speeds there are no problems of this nature in other countries. In Cairo in Egypt, to cross the road on a busy road you just cross. The drivers will expertly drive about ye and Him above will look after ye. We have some catching up to do - chicken/dodgems on the M25 anyone?
:-)
I think so, but you would have to check with a lawyer if you want a definitive answer. You would need insurance to get the tax of course.
So you knew it was on the road when you posted.. talk about idiots.
Smiley noted, but this/these crossings are on the A6, the town bypass. The train station is on the wrong side of the road for the visually impaired.
Dave
That is what I thought.
Will do, but I have to stress, it wasn't my car that got a ticket.
Orgasm tv :-) I love that.
I once paid a visit to Preston's Maplin and got a ticket because I was not in the store when they called my number plate out. I was outside the store looking at the shop window display, wondering if I should buy the helicopter that they had on display. Hence, no cash comes out of my pocket into that store again.
Dave
Surely, in Preston, one goes to CPC rather than Maplin
I do now :-)
Dave
How dare you call Maxie stupid! He is a fabulist and plays in a Paddy band! Maxie knows things that no one else knows. No one else would want to know what he knows, but that has got nothing to do with it. Maxie also lives In Watford.
geoff wrote in
Sorry - I did use an ironic typeface when I wrote it but Usenet just shows up in plain text :(
Cars parking on the pavement make it dangerous for the cyclists - geddit?
I'll get me coat...
Probably an illegal car to drive as it has a faulty speedo (the limits -0
+10% at 30 mph). You can finish the journey but not start a new one until its fixed.They might on mine, it reads 73 at 70.
Personally, anything that makes pavements dangerous for cyclists is fine by me! I do all I can.... :-)
On many controls there's a switch underneat so that the blind can switch on the audible signals.
Mary
Sounds like a thread from urc!
The noise upsets Mrs Sproggins' cat in No 25, so they switched it off.
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