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What is the urban road traffic like where you live? |
England, specify where you live. School run traffic. Rush hour traffic. Quicker by train, bus, bike, train and bike, taxi, boat? I live in Portsmouth and sometimes I'm sure people forget that it's just an island with two roads off and on. The traffic is at a stand still around 0830 in the morning with parents taking their one child to school in their 4x4's. The only time they have had it off road is when they park on the pavement. The same happens at school kicking out time and at around 1730. Buses, cars & taxis are all held up in the traffic and I have to leave around 0730 to get to work for 0830 by bus. I work around 5 miles from home. For every house, petrol station & pub they demolish. They build around 10 new flats in there place. You can bet that all the flat owners have cars and it just adds to the traffic along with the out of towners trying to find somewhere to park for the day. It's a right pain in the aras. Its so bad here we just leave the vehicle in the trafic jam and get a taxi In Dublin we have a so called motor way called the m50! its roughly abot a 8 min stretch of road (goin at 120km) in the mornings and evenings your looking at 2 hours of snail like traffic!! What a joke!! Now their re doing the whole road (which took 3 years!) to add on a nother lane!! 3 years later!! Melrose, on a major highway that leads to the lakes and recreation areas. On the weekends it is a bit of a sticky wicket. It's fine (for now) where I live. Liverpool - traffic is usually at a standstill on certain routes into town centre from 8 - 9.30 Monday to Sat, then again at about 4 - 6.30 with people coming out of town Routes upto M62 chocka all day every day....... Town centre is all 1 way system totally sh.ite!!!! I do wonder why I ever learned to drive......cos usually I take the bus...so I don't have to queue for parking if I'm going into town shopping and get a taxi home!!! Can't wait for the Christmas rush either...even worse! Devon, despite being mostly rural, is also mostly a car-park where the roads should be. People keep moving here, houses keep getting built, but no new roads, no motorways and no movement of traffic. Everyday it gets worse. Also as no real work here, EVERYBODY has to travel, so problem is only set to get worse and worse. |
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