With weather, we periodically get hottest/coldest/wettest/driest season on record. Are we now moving towards reporting 'averagest' something on record?
Got me thinking. Unfortunately I discarded the report, but was the average mean or median or mode?With weather, we periodically get hottest/coldest/wettest/driest season on record. Are we now moving towards reporting 'averagest' something on record?
Tower Bridge has got stuck open:
London's Tower Bridge reopens after technical failure
The iconic London crossing had been closed for almost 12 hours after a "technical failure".www.bbc.co.uk
Tim Dunn is doing a Twitter live stream online at the moment:
Reversing buses, gridlocked traffic, and rain - everything you need for a good livestream
-Peter
Coincidence??
There's a pinned comment from him that says it was released a week ago, but the upload date is today, which doesn't add up
He uploads his videos to YouTube a few days (maybe even a week in some cases) before it's made public; the pinned comment always gets responses saying "But this was posted x days ago!". I expect by "released", he means "uploaded".There's a pinned comment from him that says it was released a week ago, but the upload date is today, which doesn't add up
Something called scheduled uploads.There's a pinned comment from him that says it was released a week ago, but the upload date is today, which doesn't add up
Fair enough, I knew scheduled uploads were a thing but didn't know author comments could be made before publishing, and/or the upload date be altered to be when the video became public, as opposed to actually going online.
Some "creators" upload their videos as "unlisted" for the first few days and send links to those who have supported them on crowdfunding services such as Patreon, before making them public on the official release date.
Don't tell GB News! They'll have a field day.Terminal Cancel eh?
I hear that’s pretty bad…
I was surprised to see that the traffic signals there are of the conventional type rather than the design seen at level crossings etc. My understanding being that the former can legally be disobeyed by emergency vehicles on "blues 'n' twos" whereas the latter can't... but I wouldn't recommend ignoring the lights at Tower Bridge unless you're Evel Knievel!Tower Bridge has got stuck open:
London's Tower Bridge reopens after technical failure
The iconic London crossing had been closed for almost 12 hours after a "technical failure".www.bbc.co.uk
Tim Dunn is doing a Twitter live stream online at the moment:
Reversing buses, gridlocked traffic, and rain - everything you need for a good livestream
-Peter
I hadn't thought of that. That's quite the funny image - an ambulance jumping over the Thames!
I guess because, unlike the railway, the danger of the raised bascules is quite obvious.
It's a bit odd, as I believe other moveable bridges have level crossing type signals. Even fire stations do when they need to stop the traffic to get a vehicle out.
Why is it that fire stations get this, as it means that other emergency services, probably attending to the same incident, or potentially something more serious, would be required to stop for the fire engines?
I guess it's only a matter of a few seconds for a fire engine to get out into traffic so any other emergency vehicle won't get delayed much. I don't know if the lights are only provided at places where there's an intervisibility issue that creates a risk of collision if another emergency vehicle goes through them. But it does seem something of an anomaly - emergency drivers are trained and expected to identify hazards and most of them would know where the fire station was and that there was a risk of a vehicle coming out at high speed.
Leamington Spa J14 of the M40 A452 central motorways police group station has the level crossing lights so it's not exclusively fire stations.
Definitely odd. Maybe it was decided that wig-wags would be too visually intrusive and that conventional traffic signals would work fine. I found plenty of statements that wig-wags are used at lift bridges, but nothing to say they are required. Some very substantial gates close across the road before the bascules move.
On the railway, whenever something is odd like that the answer is "grandfather rights". Perhaps the conventional traffic lights were installed before wig-wags became common and simply have never been replaced.
Yes, except at the initial 'lights flashing' stage. You don't want someone 'jumping' the lights just as the bridge is about to lift!
Try a double decker bus instead...
I think that deep down we really want to see that!
