Prudential Bike Road Closure Fail

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Dear Prudential Event organisers - Thank you so very fking much for completely screwing the east of London this morning - No bloody advance warning signs, diversions or leaflets, just shut the A12 and A13 completely in both directions - Manning the barriers with numpties with no fking clue about the plan, to direct traffic from their post straight into another closure - Close all but one lane of the Blackwall Tunnel as well, and don't bother with specifics on all the dot-matrix signs available on the motorways and A-roads that feed into the tunnel approach so we have no fking clue what is ahead, just the un-fking-helpful text - 'Cycle event road closures'.

Whose genius idea was it to not run several similar named events in different areas of London on the same fking weekend as well?! Prudential RideLondon FreeCycle, Prudential RideLondon Grand Prix, Prudential RideLondon-Surrey 100 and Prudential RideLondon-Surrey Classic !
Anyone who hears a rumour of something bike related can then find the wrong website really quickly and see a published route that is nowhere near their commute to work, and unwittingly sail into an utter st-fest of jams.

The last 1.7-mile section of my journey this morning was transformed into an 8-mile detour, clogged with bewildered drivers and thousands of cyclists, floundering about from one 'Road Closed' sign to the next, which took over an hour and a half - 3 hours later, the London-bound A13 is still queueing from Canning Town out past Dagenham...

I have had several staff that have abandoned their cars and travel in the last chunk of their journey into the office by Tube or DLR, so they were all late in as well, and now we can't get vans out to Central London because of the chaos in all the rat-runs around the main closures.

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I don't listen to the crappy noise from radio smegging local - I do however drive on the same roads every day - Would it have killed anyone to put up a sign or two that said 'This road closed on Sunday'?

Or a few diversion arrows?

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I did hear that there was something cycle related on this w/end, Like I said above though, got entirely the wrong Prudential cycle event web page yesterday which was showing nothing to do with this mornings fk up.

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Black can man said:

Silver Smudger said:

I have had several staff that have abandoned their cars and travel in the last chunk of their journey into the office by Tube or DLR, so they were all late in as well, and now we can't get vans out to Central London because of the chaos in all the rat-runs around the main closures.

s!

So you run a company or manage some drivers that travel into central London & you didn't know this was on ?


Jesus dude ! You suck at your job man.

So someone runs a cycle event and didn't put any notices up on any of the main dual carriageway A-roads or tunnels, or bridges - Or notify businesses that would be surrounded by closures completely?

Some-one definitely sucks at their job.

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Blaster72 said:

Nothing in my area, no signs - f all.

Total flippin shambles, hope its not now going to happen every year.

You, me and twenty miles of traffic, brother

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Blaster72 said:

whatleytom said:

Plenty of signs out in West London. Can't see what more organisers can do besides mailing all of London. You've done well to avoid hearing anything about it.

Sadly they didn't put an signs out in my area of Surrey before cutting off the only two river crossings in the area for the whole day. They should have had some diversion routes up rather than just closing the roads and saying tough luck.

Definitely poorly organised for such a massive disruption

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whatleytom said:

Yes its a yearly event. Sad that people can't just celebrate an international sporting event with some of the worlds elite coming to compete in London. Rather they just moan that 10 fking minutes have been added to their likely to be pointless Sunday drive. Get a grip.

I have no issue with all the thousands of cyclists having a great day out - Ten minutes delay I can live with - TWO WHOLE HOURS at 6 am on a Sunday is a royal pain in the arse

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Schmy said:

Blaster72 said:

I know you're into your cycling so it stands to reason you would be well informed.

There's a big running event that happens every year called "The London Marathon"

I suppose you'd have to be into running to have heard of it though.

The London Marathon road supervision is orders of magnitude better than this shower - And more well known I suspect

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Ponk said:

Both the A12 and M25 have had warnings about this weekend on the signs for the last week or two.

You must live in a bubble.

Nothing on the A2, M20, A20 or Blackwall Tunnel - Massive great bubble in fact