Photo's and video here:-
http://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/cornwalls-biggest-sat-nav-fail-676882
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Coach stuck in lane at St Ives.
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Cornwall's biggest sat nav fail? No way. HGVs got stuck for days at a time in the early days of sat nav down country lanes in North Cornwall and round Bodmin Moor in particular.
As for coaches getting stuck, I regret to say that this happens every so often in central Penzance, the last occasion being about three weeks ago. The eastbound entrance to Penzance's main street, Market Jew Street, is theoretically prohibited to vehicles other than service buses and taxis, although in practice it is routinely ignored without recrimination. Instead, coaches are sent down Chapel Street, which is narrow but reasonably straight and also one-way, but the problem occurs at the end, when the driver has to decide whether to turn left into Quay Street or follow the wall of St Mary's Church and the winding street down to the Promenade. Quay Street is very narrow, but with parked vehicles allowed on one side. It looks and can be difficult for a larger vehicle to go down it without colliding with something, compounded by it being two-way, so many drivers will take one look from the end and opt for the other route. That's where the fun can start, because once again it's two-way traffic, with cars parked on both sides, including on double yellow lines, and it winds. One badly parked car or van can make it impassable, especially with those huge touring coach mirrors. Approx once a year, a coach (usually) or occasionally a long lorry gets completely stuck and then what happens is that about 6 or 7 p.m. the police and PCSOs close off the road from the junction with Market Jew and all the side roads and, at about 5 mph max, they accompany the reversing coach/lorry back to Lloyd's Bank. It takes about 20 minutes once they've reached Chapel Street, but it's the bit before it that's the trickiest I'd imagine (I've only ever got caught up in the tail end of it).
As for coaches getting stuck, I regret to say that this happens every so often in central Penzance, the last occasion being about three weeks ago. The eastbound entrance to Penzance's main street, Market Jew Street, is theoretically prohibited to vehicles other than service buses and taxis, although in practice it is routinely ignored without recrimination. Instead, coaches are sent down Chapel Street, which is narrow but reasonably straight and also one-way, but the problem occurs at the end, when the driver has to decide whether to turn left into Quay Street or follow the wall of St Mary's Church and the winding street down to the Promenade. Quay Street is very narrow, but with parked vehicles allowed on one side. It looks and can be difficult for a larger vehicle to go down it without colliding with something, compounded by it being two-way, so many drivers will take one look from the end and opt for the other route. That's where the fun can start, because once again it's two-way traffic, with cars parked on both sides, including on double yellow lines, and it winds. One badly parked car or van can make it impassable, especially with those huge touring coach mirrors. Approx once a year, a coach (usually) or occasionally a long lorry gets completely stuck and then what happens is that about 6 or 7 p.m. the police and PCSOs close off the road from the junction with Market Jew and all the side roads and, at about 5 mph max, they accompany the reversing coach/lorry back to Lloyd's Bank. It takes about 20 minutes once they've reached Chapel Street, but it's the bit before it that's the trickiest I'd imagine (I've only ever got caught up in the tail end of it).
Western National used to have 27/30ft long 7ft 6in wide coaches for Devon and Cornwall sight-seeing. That thing is 43ft long and 8ft 2in wide! Anyone wish to try a 50ft tri-axle, double-deck of course to see over the hedges? Maybe he thought the grassy banks were softer than the slate walls around his home-base Porth.
I like the suggestion that drivers should be changed to locals at the county boundary!
I like the suggestion that drivers should be changed to locals at the county boundary!
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