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saaby93
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866 posts
5 months
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Springbok
187 posts
81 months
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Dangerous? No. just cars parked legally on the road, An everyday hazard.
And why not - as usual the tax paying public are ignored by their elected representatives.
Good for them.
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dougc
6,451 posts
92 months
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From a legal standpoint, probably not. Specifically parking to make life difficult for other road users is a bit silly though.
Can't hear the audio but I guess there is no rule against HGVs using the road?
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Marf
8,264 posts
68 months
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dougc said: Can't hear the audio but I guess there is no rule against HGVs using the road? No, there isn't. Apparently a 7.5t limit is going to be put in place by this time next year.
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saaby93
Original Poster
866 posts
5 months
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I meant are the trucks dangerous  The 7.5T limit won't do much as it'll be except for access, so presumably access to the tip will still be allowed. Is the road for everyone to use or not? 
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oldsoak
2,407 posts
29 months
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Is there a lawful authority or excuse being exercised here? HA 1980 said: Wilful Obstruction of the Highway
By section 137 of the Highways Act 1980: "(1) If a person, without lawful authority or excuse, in any way wilfully obstructs the free passage along a highway he is guilty of an offence . . . " 
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Marf
8,264 posts
68 months
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oldsoak said: Is there a lawful authority or excuse being exercised here? HA 1980 said: Wilful Obstruction of the Highway
By section 137 of the Highways Act 1980: "(1) If a person, without lawful authority or excuse, in any way wilfully obstructs the free passage along a highway he is guilty of an offence . . . " Report says the police state what they have done is not illegal. I guess as the lorries can still pass, albeit awkwardly, there is no foul?
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tegwin
1,233 posts
33 months
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Thas just daft...
If they had fixed island things there they would be moaning about the excess noise of the lories speeding up/slowing down etc....
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oldsoak
2,407 posts
29 months
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Marf said: oldsoak said: Is there a lawful authority or excuse being exercised here? HA 1980 said: Wilful Obstruction of the Highway
By section 137 of the Highways Act 1980: "(1) If a person, without lawful authority or excuse, in any way wilfully obstructs the free passage along a highway he is guilty of an offence . . . " Report says the police state what they have done is not illegal. I guess as the lorries can still pass, albeit awkwardly, there is no foul? The way I understand it is, You commit this offence if, without lawful authority or excuse, you wilfully obstruct the free passage of the highway. Obstruction means anything that prevents passing and repassing along the highway. IIRC it isn't necessary for the whole of the highway to be blocked for the offence to be committed....if I'm wrong I'm sure I'll be corrected shortly. The obstruction also has to be ‘wilful’, so if one of those lorry drivers complains, BiB will ask you to move and if you do not then this will be used as evidence of your ‘wilful’ obstruction when you appear in 'Maggies' court to answer the charge.
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Observer2
341 posts
52 months
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oldsoak said: Is there a lawful authority or excuse being exercised here? HA 1980 said: Wilful Obstruction of the Highway
By section 137 of the Highways Act 1980: "(1) If a person, without lawful authority or excuse, in any way wilfully obstructs the free passage along a highway he is guilty of an offence . . . " Depends how to interpret "obstruct". According to my dictionary, it can mean 1. "to block with an obstacle"; 2. "to make (progress or activity) difficult"; or 3. "impede or block a clear view of". Ignoring the last, if a narrow interpretation is taken (definition 1) there appears to be no offence; if the broader definition 2 is taken, perhaps there is.
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Engineer1
1,868 posts
36 months
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All well and good until it delays an Ambulance or a Fire Engine, it's an inventive if possibly a little stupid solution.
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PeteG
1,374 posts
38 months
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Bunch of NIMBY tosspots IMHO. Kids shouldn't be playing in the road anyway, so it makes no odds whether it's a HGV or a Mini coming through. And every person in the village will buy things delivered by lorries. So unless they're proposing a bypass for every village and town in the land, what do they expect?
Deliberately adding obstructions then claiming it's dangerous for children to be playing, seems a bit like cutting off their noses to spite their faces...
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The Wookie
4,600 posts
55 months
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No sound as I'm at work, but my initial thoughts from what I see are:
1) If there's an alternative route to the tip that isn't a significant inconvenience to the lorries, then they have every right to be annoyed
2) If that route is the only way to the tip, or it's a 15-20 minute detour, then it's pretty stupid and selfish.
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Snoop Bagg
672 posts
21 months
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PeteG said: Bunch of NIMBY tosspots IMHO. Kids shouldn't be playing in the road anyway, so it makes no odds whether it's a HGV or a Mini coming through. And every person in the village will buy things delivered by lorries. So unless they're proposing a bypass for every village and town in the land, what do they expect?
Deliberately adding obstructions then claiming it's dangerous for children to be playing, seems a bit like cutting off their noses to spites their faces... Your right. Lorry drivers are just doing a job and tackling traffic with yet more traffic is even more irresponsible, an increase in people crossing from between parked cars? If they have issues they need to have a f  king ghey council meeting and deal with it like a f king responsible adults!
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Kevin VRs
4,486 posts
107 months
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The Wookie said: No sound as I'm at work, but my initial thoughts from what I see are:
1) If there's an alternative route to the tip that isn't a significant inconvenience to the lorries, then they have every right to be annoyed
2) If that route is the only way to the tip, or it's a 15-20 minute detour, then it's pretty stupid and selfish. +1
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walm
1,041 posts
29 months
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+1 on the NIMBY.
They should have protested the landfill site, that's the problem here.
I suspect they still generate a fair amount of rubbish though, so they just want their rubbish put somewhere else: classic NIMBY.
If there was an alternative landfill site which allowed lorry access without going through ANY villages then perhaps they have a point. That seems extremely unlikely.
Those trucks don't appear to be held up much by their chicane protest so I doubt the villagers will achieve anything until they have a chance at the 7.5t ban.
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DeputyDawg
95 posts
6 months
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I noticed part of the report was to stop "things like this happening" with a photo of a Alfa being squished by a lorry (1:14).
Down to the stupidity of the driver itself if you ask me. He/she should be fully aware of the turning circle of a HGV and the need to take up a little more room than most vehicles when negotiation bends. Should have held back...
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DAVEVO9
1,382 posts
94 months
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They will soon stop once a few cars get wrecked.. 
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saaby93
Original Poster
866 posts
5 months
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Kevin VRs said: The Wookie said: No sound as I'm at work, but my initial thoughts from what I see are:
1) If there's an alternative route to the tip that isn't a significant inconvenience to the lorries, then they have every right to be annoyed
2) If that route is the only way to the tip, or it's a 15-20 minute detour, then it's pretty stupid and selfish. +1 Suppose the alternative route is through another village, are they allowed to do same? I think we're losing track of what roads are for, good comunications from one place to another and not 'this is my piece of road, I'll stop anything I dont like coming through, let it go through the other village'. Or are we heading for a universal toll system  Is the chicane of cars more or less dangerous than leaving the road clear? I know parked cars are a normal obstacle.
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Getragdogleg
622 posts
10 months
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Typical biased sensationalist anti Lorry BBC report, "Trucks monstering through the quiet village" and my piss boiler phrase of the month "Juggernauts" The trucks are driving through the place because of demand, they do not do it for fun. Its a fact of life, stuff needs to move from A to B, the trucks are what is doing it. Once the Trucks are stopped what will they moan about then ? They will moan about something, cars probably, or eachother. NIMBY w kers.
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