Last night's traffic
Discussion
Anyone else get caught up in the s
t-show last night ?
I left work at 6pm (I work opposite Temple Meads) and it was absolute carnage ! Took me 1hr 15 to get out of Bristol to Chew Valley..
Why on earth didn't they just switch the lights off and let people work it out for themselves ? I bet the traffic would have flowed much better...
t-show last night ?I left work at 6pm (I work opposite Temple Meads) and it was absolute carnage ! Took me 1hr 15 to get out of Bristol to Chew Valley..
Why on earth didn't they just switch the lights off and let people work it out for themselves ? I bet the traffic would have flowed much better...
took me 15 minutes just to get out of my works car park near college green onto the road. This was not because everyone was being selfish and not letting me out, but because the traffic was stationary. I headed out of Bristol by going West and it was not too bad once I cleared the centre.
What was the cause?
What was the cause?
jkh112 said:
took me 15 minutes just to get out of my works car park near college green onto the road. This was not because everyone was being selfish and not letting me out, but because the traffic was stationary. I headed out of Bristol by going West and it was not too bad once I cleared the centre.
What was the cause?
Traffic light sequencing servers / software broke.What was the cause?
I drove past brizzle on the M5 last night at about 6pm. Apart from there being a big queue on the left lane over the Avon bridge, the M5 was surprisingly clear past Gordano, and clear up the 4 lane uphill bit where usually lanes 4 & 3 merge to cause chaos just before the "up and down" bit.
All the traffic being stuck in Bristol centre might explain this....
All the traffic being stuck in Bristol centre might explain this....
TDIfurby said:
I drove past brizzle on the M5 last night at about 6pm. Apart from there being a big queue on the left lane over the Avon bridge, the M5 was surprisingly clear past Gordano, and clear up the 4 lane uphill bit where usually lanes 4 & 3 merge to cause chaos just before the "up and down" bit.
All the traffic being stuck in Bristol centre might explain this....
Thursday's woe was a "Mega Bus" that had broken down in the outside lane of the M32 underneath the railway overbridge by Ikea.All the traffic being stuck in Bristol centre might explain this....
SWMBO was meant to pick me up but told her not to... "I'll make my own way home", I said.
I had the fortune of using the bus for the first time in over three years. Waited like a plum in the bus station for my bus which was only 1 hour 20mins late, and with 27mins still remaining on its estimated arrival time, it then dissapeared off the arrivals board all together. FirstBus opo then advised me(us all) to get another bus - only that the recommended bus doesnt go to where we all want to go.
Gave up on that so hunted down a cab - £35 for a run that usually costs £12-£15....not enough cash on me and not arsed to go off wandering in the pouring rain I thought sod it I'll wait for a bus. Got back to the Bus Station, passenger mutiny now in place. Lots of "this is the fourth time this week!" being shouted and the token bus station nutter ranting at kid for using "toilet words". To rely on buses on a daily basis to get you home from work would seriously do your tree in.
Of course the Metro bus will solve all of the congestion problems and without doubt run a punctual and effcient service...
Edited by BristolRich on Monday 14th December 07:38
Edited by BristolRich on Monday 14th December 07:40
Yep, my wife finally gave in and learnt to drive as the buses were so unreliable. How they can be late for the first bus of the day I'll never know. You can be at the bus station and they can't cope when a driver doesn't turn up for work, and don't think they'll come out to tell any of the waiting passengers so they can make alternative arrangements. I think the final straw was when she was in two buses that crashed in the space of a week and the driver said "oh no, not again". They even add to the congestion by blocking the box junctions.
I've given cycling a go but the cycle paths are pretty dangerous in places and they've closed some of the routes to build the metrobus.
Call me cynical, but I have a suspicion that all the roadworks for metrobus have been planned to cause maximum disruption. When the routes are complete of course the traffic will improve...
I've given cycling a go but the cycle paths are pretty dangerous in places and they've closed some of the routes to build the metrobus.
Call me cynical, but I have a suspicion that all the roadworks for metrobus have been planned to cause maximum disruption. When the routes are complete of course the traffic will improve...
1ians said:
Call me cynical, but I have a suspicion that all the roadworks for metrobus have been planned to cause maximum disruption. When the routes are complete of course the traffic will improve...
I was begining to think it was me. South Glos works especially seems to follow the same patern...start the works with a furious ammount of activity after which follows a long period of innactivity followed by a slow burning approach to getting the works finished.Example of this is the new Metrobus stop on the A4174 on the approach to Hambrook lights. In one week the old layby had been removed, earth works dug, diversionary path laid, trench boxes delivered, huge roll of land drain delivered and dumper on site. 3 weeks of cycling past it on a daily basis I can say none of it has moved an inch.
Anyone seen this ?
http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/Road-new-Bristol-Aren...
Priorities completely arse-about-face, sod the cars, vans and trucks that need to move about...but hey at least there will be a nice new sparkly cycle lane !
http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/Road-new-Bristol-Aren...
Priorities completely arse-about-face, sod the cars, vans and trucks that need to move about...but hey at least there will be a nice new sparkly cycle lane !
Pints said:
Rumour has it that the lights are again out of sync this evening.
Just Brislington...so far http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/BRISTOL-TRAFFIC-Traff...
Edited to add....doesn't look pretty out there though
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Bristol,+City+...
Edited by juice on Tuesday 15th December 16:25
juice said:
Anyone seen this ?
http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/Road-new-Bristol-Aren...
Priorities completely arse-about-face, sod the cars, vans and trucks that need to move about...but hey at least there will be a nice new sparkly cycle lane !
They'll balls that up too. The cycle paths / lanes are ill thought out / dangerous in places. They suddenly end, usually have cars parked in them, cross entrances that have give way rather than stop signs, pedestrian and cyclists aren't seperated, they cross railway tracks at the wrong angle or even slippery bridges. http://m.bristolpost.co.uk/Cheesegrater-bridge-Bri... Finally the chocolate cycle path is pretty dangerous, in addition to the narrow sections where you have to stop for other cyclists to prevent a head on with a closing speed of 30-40 mph, it's so bumpy people cycle on the road instead.http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/Road-new-Bristol-Aren...
Priorities completely arse-about-face, sod the cars, vans and trucks that need to move about...but hey at least there will be a nice new sparkly cycle lane !
BristolRich said:
1ians said:
Call me cynical, but I have a suspicion that all the roadworks for metrobus have been planned to cause maximum disruption. When the routes are complete of course the traffic will improve...
I was begining to think it was me. South Glos works especially seems to follow the same patern...start the works with a furious ammount of activity after which follows a long period of innactivity followed by a slow burning approach to getting the works finished.Example of this is the new Metrobus stop on the A4174 on the approach to Hambrook lights. In one week the old layby had been removed, earth works dug, diversionary path laid, trench boxes delivered, huge roll of land drain delivered and dumper on site. 3 weeks of cycling past it on a daily basis I can say none of it has moved an inch.
My daily commute involves roadworks that are to do with the new Metrobus route. It's the section from Aztec West down to the Lidl roundabout, maybe 400 yards away. Often takes up several minutes to do what normally could be done in thirty seconds. Often, the whole area goes into semi meltdown because someone wants to exit onto the road from those flats a little way down from the Woodlands Lane junction.
Utter farce. And for the first two weeks of the roadworks, they left the traffic lights on sequence so that they'd stop the traffic so that someone could exit/enter a road which was shut and all fenced off.
GloverMart said:
I reckon you're right there.
My daily commute involves roadworks that are to do with the new Metrobus route. It's the section from Aztec West down to the Lidl roundabout, maybe 400 yards away. Often takes up several minutes to do what normally could be done in thirty seconds. Often, the whole area goes into semi meltdown because someone wants to exit onto the road from those flats a little way down from the Woodlands Lane junction.
Utter farce. And for the first two weeks of the roadworks, they left the traffic lights on sequence so that they'd stop the traffic so that someone could exit/enter a road which was shut and all fenced off.
I deal with these roadworks and they are an absolute nightmare. What's even more shocking is how they are now due to last 48 weeks when the original plan was 18!!My daily commute involves roadworks that are to do with the new Metrobus route. It's the section from Aztec West down to the Lidl roundabout, maybe 400 yards away. Often takes up several minutes to do what normally could be done in thirty seconds. Often, the whole area goes into semi meltdown because someone wants to exit onto the road from those flats a little way down from the Woodlands Lane junction.
Utter farce. And for the first two weeks of the roadworks, they left the traffic lights on sequence so that they'd stop the traffic so that someone could exit/enter a road which was shut and all fenced off.
giltranator said:
GloverMart said:
I reckon you're right there.
My daily commute involves roadworks that are to do with the new Metrobus route. It's the section from Aztec West down to the Lidl roundabout, maybe 400 yards away. Often takes up several minutes to do what normally could be done in thirty seconds. Often, the whole area goes into semi meltdown because someone wants to exit onto the road from those flats a little way down from the Woodlands Lane junction.
Utter farce. And for the first two weeks of the roadworks, they left the traffic lights on sequence so that they'd stop the traffic so that someone could exit/enter a road which was shut and all fenced off.
I deal with these roadworks and they are an absolute nightmare. What's even more shocking is how they are now due to last 48 weeks when the original plan was 18!!My daily commute involves roadworks that are to do with the new Metrobus route. It's the section from Aztec West down to the Lidl roundabout, maybe 400 yards away. Often takes up several minutes to do what normally could be done in thirty seconds. Often, the whole area goes into semi meltdown because someone wants to exit onto the road from those flats a little way down from the Woodlands Lane junction.
Utter farce. And for the first two weeks of the roadworks, they left the traffic lights on sequence so that they'd stop the traffic so that someone could exit/enter a road which was shut and all fenced off.
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