Idling minibus was going through "tests", on 26 March 2026, while the two men were idling chatting nearby; AND, Bus Gate signs missing to catch motorists in order to fine them!
As a complete stranger to Stockport and High Lane village - to take my wife to the Biobank in Stockport for medical research - I was caught out twice with two £30 fines, which arrived a couple of weeks later when we got home because of missing warning signs to make it clear that our car was approaching a bus gate/lane that was coming up and a £60 fine would ensue, if the motorist did not stop and reverse.
One was at Buxton Road, High Lane village when I was trying to find the A555. The other was in Stockport centre when trying to find the council multi-storey car park, Redrock, that we made good use of. Poor signage again.
Why was there the stationary, idling minibus at the Disley Community Centre - and for many minutes, too? One council worker informed me that it was having to go through compulsory safety checks. However, there are these disadvantages:
- Private motorists never go through many minutes of aimless idling of the engine before moving off.
- It wastes finite fossil fuels and council taxpayers' money.
- Once international oil reserves are exhausted or too expensive to pump out of the ground, we are snookered, doomed, up a creek without a paddle ...
- Oil is too important and vital for the 101 other uses we use it for than to be burnt from the unintelligent conviction that it is inexhaustible.
- In so doing we are responsible for melting polar regions to very nicely free up sea lanes for shipping but which are disastrously affecting life support systems.
- This, along with retreating glaciers, with more woodland/forest fires and extreme weather from the officially, universally declared Climate Emergency by councils and governments around the world.
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