Road Rant

[RogerL]

With the summer holiday getaway starting this last week roads have been been ramping up in traffic levels. Today some 3m cars were expected to join the fun. We decided to defer our trip to Wales until tomorrow as our programme was flexible. Not heard any horror stories wrt Dover crossings.

One of the great things about being retired is being able to "time-shift" journeys to a quieter day and time.

 

[PTA]

The trials of living in a small country with a large population! France is twice as big with similar sized population. Hence their better roads.
Annoying!

 

[woodsieboy]

It's not the size of the country thet really matters, its the agenda of the government to make life as difficult as possible for drivers and eventually force them to reduce their journeys, already I refuse to go anywhere with congestion zones, I refuse to use car parks that don't take cash,so if the businesses in those area miss out on my custom so be it. How else can the deliberate hold ups and road closures be explained ?
There appears to me to be no consideration given to the impact caused to drivers by the constant hold ups, everything is geared to pedestrians and cyclists and of course the sub contractors. I just wish I had invested in a company that makes/supplies temporary traffic lights.

 

[RogerL]

It's not the size of the country thet really matters, its the agenda of the government to make life as difficult as possible for drivers and eventually force them to reduce their journeys, already I refuse to go anywhere with congestion zones, I refuse to use car parks that don't take cash,so if the businesses in those area miss out on my custom so be it. How else can the deliberate hold ups and road closures be explained ?
There appears to me to be no consideration given to the impact caused to drivers by the constant hold ups, everything is geared to pedestrians and cyclists and of course the sub contractors. I just wish I had invested in a company that makes/supplies temporary traffic lights.

The population density causes most of that - without tarmaccing over big swathes of the countryside we can't have route duplication which would reduce traffic density and provide alternative when accident and roadworks occur.

There is a solution, reduce our population - but that's political.