RANT: Newcastle = bus lane city
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Our lovely city council clearly is not going to be happy until it has completely banned cars from Newcastle by the looks of things. Not content with the bus lanes that they have painted down Mosely Street, I go out for my daily swim today to find they have also bus-laned Dobson Street.
When will those complete tossers realise that in a city like Newcastle, this achieves nothing other than raises congestion.
Why dont they just ban cars altogether, they may as well, because at this rate, its going to be truly horrific to come into the city by car.
Congestion never used to be that bad in Newcastle, but this stupid council has made darn sure that it will be in future. I'm just waiting for the day when they paint buslanes down St James Boulevard, no doubt they'll end up on the Redheugh bridge as well, and no doubt the High Level bridge will be completely closed to cars permanently.
Its almost as bad as what the f**kwits have done in Gateshead, that place is a nightmare now as well.
To add insult to injury, half of the time that tossers driving the buses dont even use their dedicated lanes. These lanes are actually "No car" lanes, therefore i REALLY wish that anything that isnt a car would get the f**k out of our lanes
Of course, if you are in a car and you dare to put one wheel on the "no car" lane then the bus drivers will blast their horns and shout abuse. Tossers!
When will those complete tossers realise that in a city like Newcastle, this achieves nothing other than raises congestion.
Why dont they just ban cars altogether, they may as well, because at this rate, its going to be truly horrific to come into the city by car.
Congestion never used to be that bad in Newcastle, but this stupid council has made darn sure that it will be in future. I'm just waiting for the day when they paint buslanes down St James Boulevard, no doubt they'll end up on the Redheugh bridge as well, and no doubt the High Level bridge will be completely closed to cars permanently.
Its almost as bad as what the f**kwits have done in Gateshead, that place is a nightmare now as well.
To add insult to injury, half of the time that tossers driving the buses dont even use their dedicated lanes. These lanes are actually "No car" lanes, therefore i REALLY wish that anything that isnt a car would get the f**k out of our lanes
Of course, if you are in a car and you dare to put one wheel on the "no car" lane then the bus drivers will blast their horns and shout abuse. Tossers!Just to add, that if I was like many forum posters on this forum who have a "weekend" car and a daily hack, if I was personally in that situation now, I would make my daily hack a van. They are "no car" lanes after all, and they could do nothing about you using it in those lanes as far as I can tell.
I'm just glad that my commute into town only involves going up St James Boulevard then onto Percy Street, at least I avoid all of this madness.
I actually hope that Newcastles economy is damaged by this, people will probably choose the Metrocentre now instead. Although even that is getting bus laned in places, but at least they have actually expanded roads to fit them in and not just take road away from drivers.
I actually hope that Newcastles economy is damaged by this, people will probably choose the Metrocentre now instead. Although even that is getting bus laned in places, but at least they have actually expanded roads to fit them in and not just take road away from drivers.
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