Woman in Cambridge identifying as bus - update
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Looking back at this news story
https://www.cambridgeindependent.co.uk/news/i-will...
In case you get the sign up screen -it's a story from September 2023 about a woman who disagrees with the plan to close a road to private vehicles and claims she will self identify as a bus if she is fined for driving through traffic cameras.
In addition to wondering how many have ridden her, I'm more interested to know if she really went through with it as the story sound ridiculous.
https://www.cambridgeindependent.co.uk/news/i-will...
In case you get the sign up screen -it's a story from September 2023 about a woman who disagrees with the plan to close a road to private vehicles and claims she will self identify as a bus if she is fined for driving through traffic cameras.
In addition to wondering how many have ridden her, I'm more interested to know if she really went through with it as the story sound ridiculous.
Pistom said:
Looking back at this news story
https://www.cambridgeindependent.co.uk/news/i-will...
In case you get the sign up screen -it's a story from September 2023 about a woman who disagrees with the plan to close a road to private vehicles and claims she will self identify as a bus if she is fined for driving through traffic cameras.
In addition to wondering how many have ridden her, I'm more interested to know if she really went through with it as the story sound ridiculous.
If she tried that in my town I'd double deck her.https://www.cambridgeindependent.co.uk/news/i-will...
In case you get the sign up screen -it's a story from September 2023 about a woman who disagrees with the plan to close a road to private vehicles and claims she will self identify as a bus if she is fined for driving through traffic cameras.
In addition to wondering how many have ridden her, I'm more interested to know if she really went through with it as the story sound ridiculous.
What an idiot, that being said it looks like the scheme hadn't gone ahead as of May this year so her bluff may yet to be called.
Fair play to her. She's making her point in an amusing way.
If the council does decide to go ahead and then it gets court-y, clearly the correct way forward from the council is not to be firm / antagonistic, but to play along. Confirm she's a bus, demand MOT as noted above, then fail her on emissions. A correctly worded (non-offensive) statement could then imply she's spouting bilge. End result: Council would win both the argument and PR war...
If the council does decide to go ahead and then it gets court-y, clearly the correct way forward from the council is not to be firm / antagonistic, but to play along. Confirm she's a bus, demand MOT as noted above, then fail her on emissions. A correctly worded (non-offensive) statement could then imply she's spouting bilge. End result: Council would win both the argument and PR war...
Some Gump said:
Fair play to her. She's making her point in an amusing way.
If the council does decide to go ahead and then it gets court-y, clearly the correct way forward from the council is not to be firm / antagonistic, but to play along. Confirm she's a bus, demand MOT as noted above, then fail her on emissions. A correctly worded (non-offensive) statement could then imply she's spouting bilge. End result: Council would win both the argument and PR war...
She wont need one, if over 40. If the council does decide to go ahead and then it gets court-y, clearly the correct way forward from the council is not to be firm / antagonistic, but to play along. Confirm she's a bus, demand MOT as noted above, then fail her on emissions. A correctly worded (non-offensive) statement could then imply she's spouting bilge. End result: Council would win both the argument and PR war...
She's got a point. Stupid restructions force people to spend longer, travelling further, causing more air pollution and incurring more cost than necessary. There's a place near me were you have to do a 1.1 mile detour because a 175m bit of road that would take you to the same place is "buses only". Pathetic.
markymarkthree said:
Some Gump said:
Fair play to her. She's making her point in an amusing way.
If the council does decide to go ahead and then it gets court-y, clearly the correct way forward from the council is not to be firm / antagonistic, but to play along. Confirm she's a bus, demand MOT as noted above, then fail her on emissions. A correctly worded (non-offensive) statement could then imply she's spouting bilge. End result: Council would win both the argument and PR war...
She wont need one, if over 40. If the council does decide to go ahead and then it gets court-y, clearly the correct way forward from the council is not to be firm / antagonistic, but to play along. Confirm she's a bus, demand MOT as noted above, then fail her on emissions. A correctly worded (non-offensive) statement could then imply she's spouting bilge. End result: Council would win both the argument and PR war...
Looks to me like an attempt to get her name in the press to promote herself but I wonder what ever happens to stories like this.
Surely, once you've said you're going to do that, the negative impact of caving in outweighs any benefit of the coverage in the first place.
I was asking the question as I wondered - what ever happened to this - but can't find anything on it.
Hopefully somebody local will know.
Surely, once you've said you're going to do that, the negative impact of caving in outweighs any benefit of the coverage in the first place.
I was asking the question as I wondered - what ever happened to this - but can't find anything on it.
Hopefully somebody local will know.
I came across this same story yesterday and was curious.
At 66 she would class as vintage therefore wouldn't need an mot or tax, and if Cambridge is the same as Newcastle she would indeed be able to use the bus lane.
https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-ne...
At 66 she would class as vintage therefore wouldn't need an mot or tax, and if Cambridge is the same as Newcastle she would indeed be able to use the bus lane.
https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-ne...
JuanCarlosFandango said:
I came across this same story yesterday and was curious.
At 66 she would class as vintage therefore wouldn't need an mot or tax, and if Cambridge is the same as Newcastle she would indeed be able to use the bus lane.
https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-ne...
Vintage is up to 1930.At 66 she would class as vintage therefore wouldn't need an mot or tax, and if Cambridge is the same as Newcastle she would indeed be able to use the bus lane.
https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-ne...
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