Baldwin Street - Good job boys...
Discussion
I'm glad to see they've finally finished whatever they've been doing on Baldwin Streetthat has caused traffic chaos but they've really made a mess of the road surface, there are lumps and bumps all over the place.
Is it really that diffifult to get the road surface somewhere close to flat after road works?
Is it really that diffifult to get the road surface somewhere close to flat after road works?
And closing off the side roads that act as pressure release valves at congestion pinch points.Case in point: the little hill between Redland Hill and Blackboy Hill. Very useful rat-run for traffic needing to go down Whiteladies without queueing for hours at the Westbury Road / Blackboy Hill junction behinf 100s of cars trying to go straight over to get to Bridge Valley Road. It's recently been made one way... UP the hill, i.e. the way that nobody ever goes. A more practical solution would have been to make it one way DOWN so as to relieve congestion and prevent the odd nutter from going up and causing chaos (it's only about 1.5 car widths wide in places).
Edited by pdV6 on Friday 15th February 11:36
pdV6 said:
And closing off the side roads that act as pressure release valves at congestion pinch points.Case in point: the little hill between Redland Hill and Blackboy Hill. Very useful rat-run for traffic needing to go down Whiteladies without queueing for hours at the Westbury Road / Blackboy Hill junction behinf 100s of cars trying to go straight over to get to Bridge Valley Road. It's recently been made one way... UP the hill, i.e. the way that nobody ever goes. A more practical solution would have been to make it one way DOWN so as to relieve congestion and prevent the odd nutter from going up and causing chaos (it's only about 1.5 car widths wide in places).
Edited by pdV6 on Friday 15th February 11:36
pdV6 said:
And closing off the side roads that act as pressure release valves at congestion pinch points.Case in point: the little hill between Redland Hill and Blackboy Hill. Very useful rat-run for traffic needing to go down Whiteladies without queueing for hours at the Westbury Road / Blackboy Hill junction behinf 100s of cars trying to go straight over to get to Bridge Valley Road. It's recently been made one way... UP the hill, i.e. the way that nobody ever goes. A more practical solution would have been to make it one way DOWN so as to relieve congestion and prevent the odd nutter from going up and causing chaos (it's only about 1.5 car widths wide in places).
Edited by pdV6 on Friday 15th February 11:36
thats just crazy!
explains why they were didding it up a few weeks ago
dont think i have ever gone up that hill, but down it a good couple of thousand times!
think i'm going to make a point of driving the TVR up that hill late at night, just to p1s5 some one off!
custard
GlenMH said:
Absolutely - have you noticed the rephasing of traffic lights has been started to make congestion worse? Ikea jn of the M32 is the most obvious example I have found so far 
Yep, Hayley and I commented on this only yesterday when we came of the M32 and drove past the massively long queue that was waiting for Ikea, but also tailing all the way up Muller Rd and onto Fishponds Rd and Royate Hill...It IS certainly getting worse - and not only that, I have to a St. George to St.Phillips and then Avonmouth journey everyday for the next two weeks
(and the return journey too)...I drive past there everyday and hadn't realised why the traffic had suddenly got so bad. It's a real PITA, with all the cars parked along there too. Getting the Monaro down there can get a bit tricky, especially when a big truck "the whole road take over*"
- Gratuitous Smiley Culture reference...
pdV6 said:
Miss Pitstop said:
I work at the Spire hospital
When did it change from being a Bupa hospital? I only noticed the new signs a couple of weeks ago.The oldies remember the nightclub...
custardkid said:
pdV6 said:
And closing off the side roads that act as pressure release valves at congestion pinch points.Case in point: the little hill between Redland Hill and Blackboy Hill. Very useful rat-run for traffic needing to go down Whiteladies without queueing for hours at the Westbury Road / Blackboy Hill junction behinf 100s of cars trying to go straight over to get to Bridge Valley Road. It's recently been made one way... UP the hill, i.e. the way that nobody ever goes. A more practical solution would have been to make it one way DOWN so as to relieve congestion and prevent the odd nutter from going up and causing chaos (it's only about 1.5 car widths wide in places).
Edited by pdV6 on Friday 15th February 11:36
thats just crazy!
explains why they were didding it up a few weeks ago
dont think i have ever gone up that hill, but down it a good couple of thousand times!
think i'm going to make a point of driving the TVR up that hill late at night, just to p1s5 some one off!
custard
k me. I say again, fk me. What a completely insane decision. I've not been up that way in a while but ffs, what possible justification could they have for doing that, its utterly incomprehensible! We need to know addresses of councillors and we need to know it now! It effectively turns that road into a cul-de-sac or deserted road! There is zero reason to go UP that road as if you wanted to head that way you'd have turned left off the downs ffs.Sorry, its absolutely f
king barmy!!/and breathe
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