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Just want to vent my frustration really.... It seems that lately the drive home from work has turned into some sort of battleground - a total nightmare! After a hard days graft the last thing I need is a load of aggro from ignorant drivers (do BMW now offer indicator stalks as an optional extra?!). People cutting in front, driving alongside when it's clearly single lane traffic..... horrific! It makes things worse when the car starts playing up and you're in nose-to-tail traffic (alternator is f**ked I think  ). What's more, it doesn't seem to matter when I leave - I used to try to get away a bit before 5 to avoid the rush, but you just catch the tail end of the school run with mothers picking up their obese, pasty-faced kids!  I think I'll start working nights... or buy a tank (some may argue I already drive one!  ) I think I need a holiday |
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I won't be there when you cross the road, so always use the Green Cross Code.
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And you live in...?
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This space available to rent. Reach literally dozens of people. Cheap rates!
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Sounds like you need a Soviet T-60 like the one at the side of this post!! It's not as well built as a Volvo but they're quite good off road! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D |
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"He's not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy!"
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This atrocious traffic can be found (apart from London, Tokyo, Beiruit....) in Nottingham. Just over the past few weeks it seems to have gotten ridiculous. I'm used to it when I drive in London (it takes me 4 hours to reach the M25 normally ) It's the aggression that gets to me - I mean, if it came to the crunch and it was me versus Mr Suit in his Focus I know which car I'd rather be in, but it doesn't stop him trying to intimidate me! Yeah, a a good old Communist T-60 people-suppressor would be good for the daily commute , but I reckon I'll go for a hard as nails matt-black paint job and not bother covering up the battle scars! There was a rough SD1 near my brothers old workplace that had newspaper clippings of hit-and-run incidents and car crashes in the rear window - terrifying!!! But so cool!!! |
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Yeah, sometimes these smaller cities can have even worse traffic than London.
If the traffic has got suddenly worse then the town planners have probably altered some traffic light timings somewhere as an experiment to see how the flow goes, or there might be some big road works somewhere.
It may be a planning ploy to drive traffic away from somewhere, or it could just be autumn kicking in!!
Any way up irt sucks! The only good use for a modern car is stuck in traffic with the stereo on!
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This space available to rent. Reach literally dozens of people. Cheap rates!
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Yeah, sometimes these smaller cities can have even worse traffic than London.
You're bang on. Until recently I spent hours in and out of traffic jams and idiot driving, increasing my temper and blood pressure in Reading. It seems that the whole bloody place is a bottleneck for the South East.
Some little thug cut me up, I was miffed that I had to take evasive action but decided it wasn't worth getting angry with it. I managed to catch him up in the left lane after 5 minutes, and smuggly waved a copy of the highway code at him and blew him kisses as I drove away....that really really curse word him off.
I don't think its worth getting annoyed by those morons. My character changes depending on which car I drive. My daily driver 106 Rallye, because of its buzzy mature can sometimes bring out the worse in me, but the Datsun very rarely gets me in trouble. My main problem is that people under-estimate the cars nippyness and acceleration around town but the cars curse word-poor brakes is the reason I don't thrash it....
I'm now going to sample the merry-go-rounded delights of Coventry....I think I'd best walk everywhere.
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Glasgow rush hour's pretty unbelievable too! (Although don't let the name fool you, it takes most of the afternoon/evening to calm down again!) Part of it is because so many people commute from the small towns in the central belt and the west coast towns like mine, and all meet up on the M8, joined by all the yuppies and sales reps who think that just because a Focus or 3 series is bigger than an Imp I'm intimidated (put it this way, if I take his door off and get dented a bit I'll be the one who can fix my car at home with a hammer, a tub of filler and some paint, he'll be the one who gets slaughtered by his boss for wrecking a company car!  ) and combine that with hundreds of tired long distance lorry drivers in long, wide artics who have no choice but to be there, and can't move an inch without yuppies and school run mums alike ranting, hitting horns and shaking fists, and more often than not smashing into the backs of the lorries and being killed.Then there's bloody neds who insist on trying to race you when the traffic gets moving for a short time, even in that traffic. So I can't say I enjoy Glasgow rush hour either. There's a good reason why I use the backroads (besides being able to go fast without being spotted by hundreds of speed cameras! ) |
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And an accident or roadworks make matters far far worse!  |
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The Isle of Wight, whilst not traffic free, is about a million times better than my old commute round Bolton. The thing is though, the locals don't realise how lucky they are. There is one main pinch point, at newport, called coppins bridge (actually a massive roundabout over 3 bridges and more traffic lights perr square metre than anywhere else in the world). It takes me a maximum of 25 minutes to queue up and get through the traffic, and yet every week there's blood curdling threats to the local road planners in the local paper. If the inbred inhabitants of this tiny island ever made it as far as the mainland, they would be in for a shock. I offer my sympathy to everyone that gets stuck in real traffic jams  |
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I think what I hate the most about it is that it brings out the worst in me... I find myself getting more and more curse word off, and I have to remind myself that I don't want to turn into some angry curse word who winds everybody else up! I can alter the times I get into and leave work as I'm self employed, so I'll probably try a few different hours / routes and see if I can't miss the worst of it!
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i live AND work around Nottingham
and knowing all the back routes don't
seem to help one bit from 4.30 until well
past 6pm. luckily i finish work at 4pm
and only have to drive from London Road
up to Wells Road, 5 minutes usually.
the missus knows not to ask me to drive
anywhere in the 'rush' hour.
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I work In runndington in notts and live in Ravenshead so i have to travel throught this all the time too seems to be getting far far worse also.
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i live in essex the land of the chav and the tail gater they don't care what their tailgating or what speed your going as long as they can sit 6" off your bumper thier happy if only they new the damage a mk2 granada with a tow bar can do they'd be about 100 foot ferther back :oi'm gona squash one soon ;D ;D ;D |
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I used to think that Athens is the absolute commuter's nightmare... But it seems that traffic jams are getting gradually worse all around Europe !!! Well... Maybe we should commute via public transport and only drive on the weekend. It will surely be better for our mental health  |
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I used to think that Athens is the absolute commuter's nightmare... But it seems that traffic jams are getting gradually worse all around Europe !!! Well... Maybe we should commute via public transport and only drive on the weekend. It will surely be better for our mental health It's better for mine ;D I work in the Transit field and I won't drive to or from work if I can help it. Even here. |
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Public transport?! That's swearing round here isn't it? The bus companies around my way have the cheek to charge £3.60 return to get into the city. If I lived back in London then I'd use public transport as it actually works and isn't that pricey for what it is (regardless of how much Londoners complain about it!). But for me it's the car every time! |
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Hey, if I try to drive to work of a morning it can take up to 3 hours! I've given up on that idea and catch the train now! This has some real advantages - It takes me 45 mins to get from home in Biggleswade to my desk in Central London with no hassle or stress and the trains are WAY more comfy than the cack Citroen Berlingo that I was using before (and the trains don't break down as much as nasty French vans). Also, it means I'm not putting my car through the stress of sitting in traffic jams for half the day, so I can keep it peachy! That said, our job in the world of "measuring stuff" is pretty flexible - there are days when I can just sit at home doing my CAD work at home (with the obligatory I'M-BORED-LETS-GO-FOR-A-DRIVE breaks) or we do site work at night. In the BMW I can whizz down to anywhere in Central London in under an hour (without exceeding the speed limit too much) and it's a very relaxed and stressless drive.... |
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). What's more, it doesn't seem to matter when I leave - I used to try to get away a bit before 5 to avoid the rush, but you just catch the tail end of the school run with mothers picking up their obese, pasty-faced kids! 
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) and combine that with hundreds of tired long distance lorry drivers in long, wide artics who have no choice but to be there, and can't move an inch without yuppies and school run mums alike ranting, hitting horns and shaking fists, and more often than not smashing into the backs of the lorries and being killed.Then there's bloody neds who insist on trying to race you when the traffic gets moving for a short time, even in that traffic. So I can't say I enjoy Glasgow rush hour either. There's a good reason why I use the backroads (besides being able to go fast without being spotted by hundreds of speed cameras! 
