beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
Except the police have both the ability to issue fines, and camera evidence of those driving where they shouldn’t.
Entirely unashamed anti car propaganda, and the more the better.
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Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
So your kid's school is collecting time and date stamped camera evidence now?
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
I believe there’s at least one camera, yes. Actual police turn up every so often as well - the school was part of the initial pilot scheme so in the spotlight as it were. And B’ham at the moment is heading in a fairly radical direction when it comes to cars…
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
A very different story to this one...
My kids school has started publishing a weekly newsletter to parents, listing all the registration numbers who have broken the car free street zone rules at drop-off/pickup times
Anyone who gets a repeat mention is being reported to the police
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
Or two parts of the same story. The bit I liked was the offenders reg being published. School gossip being what it is I’m sure those being selfish will soon be getting grumbled at by the gate
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Or two parts of the same story. The bit I liked was the offenders reg being published. School gossip being what it is I’m sure those being selfish will soon be getting grumbled at by the gate
Sounds like the school is committing serious GDPR and safeguarding breaches here.
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
Not sure how a vehicle registration number is either of those tbh
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Publishing identifying details of who is taking and collecting children from school is very much both of those.
no it’s not, a number plate doesn’t identify the driver etc. Love how you thinking twatty drivers must be protected at all costs though.
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Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
My sister who is the safeguarding officer for SW Surrey disagrees with you.
Parents in messy divorces where one party has limited access to the child is the issue, not ‘teary drivers’
Sorry - meant ‘twatty’ but could have said ‘law breaking’ as well. We should prob ban number plates in case ‘parents in messy divorces’ stand on the street and look at them.My sister who is the safeguarding officer for SW Surrey disagrees with you.
Parents in messy divorces where one party has limited access to the child is the issue, not ‘teary drivers’
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
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Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
Athos
Well-Known Member
A car registration is personal data, but that doesn't necessity mean that publishing it without consent is unlawful. The school could argue it's relying on 'public task' or 'legitimate interests' grounds, given their trying to uphold a law that's in place to protect their pupils.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Bees’ school isn’t doing it to protect anyone, they are doing it so that…
those being selfish will soon be getting grumbled at by the gate
The man's a twat. Just post him donkey pictures.
Here’s a story about how much the police care about these things.
The council closed a byway here to traffic and asked local residents to report people breaking the closure. So I did my duty, dutifully photographing cars, during my daily constitutional, that had parked up the byway despite the signs saying it was closed, and sending these to local plod as part of their multi-page, irritating-to-navigate online form. After I’d done about a dozen of them, they sent me an email telling me to stop reporting it because I was causing too much admin. I responded, copying in the highways officer that had closed the road and made the request, saying that this is what we had been asked to do, and asking what the police were doing with the information I had sent them? I got no response. I didn’t send any more photographs either (tempting as it was to up my rate by a factor of 10).
I don’t know that this story particularly helps either side of this little debate, but it does demonstrate the non-joined-up nature of local authorities, and that nobody really has a clue even what they are trying to achieve, let alone how to achieve it.
The council closed a byway here to traffic and asked local residents to report people breaking the closure. So I did my duty, dutifully photographing cars, during my daily constitutional, that had parked up the byway despite the signs saying it was closed, and sending these to local plod as part of their multi-page, irritating-to-navigate online form. After I’d done about a dozen of them, they sent me an email telling me to stop reporting it because I was causing too much admin. I responded, copying in the highways officer that had closed the road and made the request, saying that this is what we had been asked to do, and asking what the police were doing with the information I had sent them? I got no response. I didn’t send any more photographs either (tempting as it was to up my rate by a factor of 10).
I don’t know that this story particularly helps either side of this little debate, but it does demonstrate the non-joined-up nature of local authorities, and that nobody really has a clue even what they are trying to achieve, let alone how to achieve it.
Athos
Well-Known Member
Leveraging public shaming to ensure compliance with the law. Like China.
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teuchter
je suis teuchter
I would say it illustrates one of the "real" costs of properly maintaining a road network that is available to private vehicles. Arguments always come up about the relative public costs of road and rail, or whether "road tax" covers the real cost of providing everything necessary to enable private motoring. Both of those questions are kind of unanswerable because it's impossible to fully separate out costs ... But the numbers given for the cost of maintaining the road network usually exclude all sorts of stuff, the stuff often called "externalities".
One commonly mentioned externality is for example policing. But what you describe is an externality that should be done and actually isn't. In other words the money that ought to be spent (and in my opinion the cost should be passed on to motorists) isn't, because the council and police aren't resourced to deal with it.
It's just like the non-enforcement of speed limits in urban areas. The cost is basically passed on to those who suffer the negative effects. Instead of the motorist paying, everyone else pays, in the form of dangerous or damaged environments.
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
That’s exactly why they’re doing it. It’s just unfortunate that simply asking drivers to do the right thing and not endanger children somehow isn’t enough.
But sure, let’s worry about the privacy of poor little drivers who can’t be arsed to walk 200 yards each morning.
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
Just overheard a conversation between two parents at my kids swimming class.
“There’s new parking restrictions coming in next week outside school, solid yellow lines now, it’s utterly ridiculous”
“Yeah, all it will do is spread everyone further away and make us walk the last bit”
Drivers. Not the sharpest knives in the drawer.
Edit - seen in the car park afterwards, one getting into an Evoque, one into a Tesla. The stereotypes exist for a reason
“There’s new parking restrictions coming in next week outside school, solid yellow lines now, it’s utterly ridiculous”
“Yeah, all it will do is spread everyone further away and make us walk the last bit”
Drivers. Not the sharpest knives in the drawer.
Edit - seen in the car park afterwards, one getting into an Evoque, one into a Tesla. The stereotypes exist for a reason
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Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
Just overheard a conversation between two parents at my kids swimming class.
“There’s new parking restrictions coming in next week outside school, solid yellow lines now, it’s utterly ridiculous”
“Yeah, all it will do is spread everyone further away and make us walk the last bit”
Drivers. Not the sharpest knives in the drawer.
Edit - seen in the car park afterwards, one getting into an Evoque, one into a Tesla. The stereotypes exist for a reason
Imagine having to teach your kids how to walk.
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
The horror.
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
"seriously we mean under no circumstances should you be fucking around with your phone while driving"
And personally more than happy to call out cyclists tootling along in traffic while holding a mobile.
And personally more than happy to call out cyclists tootling along in traffic while holding a mobile.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Farmer acquitted on all charges in court
Car-flip farmer cleared of dangerous driving and criminal damage
Robert Hooper's partner said he had been through "months of hell" after removing the Corsa from his property.
www.bbc.co.uk
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Farmer acquitted on all charges in court
Car-flip farmer cleared of dangerous driving and criminal damage
Robert Hooper's partner said he had been through "months of hell" after removing the Corsa from his property.www.bbc.co.uk
As I suspected at the time, there was a fuckton of previous, including the farmer being punched by the driver's mate.
So fuckem.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
As I suspected at the time, there was a fuckton of previous, including the farmer being punched by the driver's mate.
So fuckem.
One of the pissed up wankers claimed he was planning on walking back to Tyneside, 52 miles away
