Where have they all come from...

[xspencex]

Don't know what anybody else has experienced but has everybody with a car decided to drive to work this week... Since Monday traffic has been a nightmare, I'm practically filtering all the way to work. For the past month it has taking me around 45 mins to get to work now it's just around the hour mark. That many people can't all of gone on holiday for a month. Today was the first tim ein a long time that I felt stressed by my journey.. so many metal boxes to avoid!

[black-k1]

The kids are back at school!

[VerySideways]

Oh god yes, i know exactly what you're talking about.
The volume of rush hour traffic appears to have doubled since the weekend...

[Mr Gear]

black-k1 said:

The kids are back at school!

It's amazing how many kids drive isn't it?

Seriously though, I agree, the commute today really sucked.

[Rawwr]

Yeah, we live next to a school and the frightful commute is compounded by the overweight, overfed school mums too lazy to get off their jobless fat backsides and walk their kids to school rather than take the overfinanced spazwagon and park it on the nearest patch of double-yellows to the school they can find.

[C8PPO]

The most ridiculous thing I've seen around the school run is local to me. The school area used to be thoroughly congested at in/out times, so the school set up a "walking bus" where all the kids meet up at a set place about 3/4 mile form the school, and are walked to school by a few responsible adults, all wearing hi-vis.

However, the "fat spazwagon drivers" (did I get that right? ) now simply all drive to the start poihnt of the walking bus, and since that isn't a long straight stretch of road like outside the school, cause even more problems.

These people should have been neutered - can they not even understand what a "walking bus" is? If they're that compelled to drive each morning, they may as well take the little darlings all the way to that gate as before.

Feckin eejits.

[steven182]

for a change there were only 2 cars to pass on my journey to work allowing me to open up a bit more than usual =] my commute is only 6 miles mind

[dern]

C8PPO said:

The most ridiculous thing I've seen around the school run is local to me. The school area used to be thoroughly congested at in/out times, so the school set up a "walking bus" where all the kids meet up at a set place about 3/4 mile form the school, and are walked to school by a few responsible adults, all wearing hi-vis.

However, the "fat spazwagon drivers" (did I get that right? ) now simply all drive to the start poihnt of the walking bus, and since that isn't a long straight stretch of road like outside the school, cause even more problems.

A predictable outcome really although as an alternative point of view it's possible that some of the mums take their kids to school on the way to work.

[Wasted Bullet]

I lived right next door to a school, I was always amazed about the number of people that drove... The school catchment area was about 400meters... yet you still got massive 4x4 parking anywhere they could fit it then chatting blocking off the entire street. If I couldn't get out my house before 8:40 it was a nightmare...

[R5GTTgaz]

I used to live in a village were it was no more than 20 minutes to walk to anywhere from anywhere.

At 2pm they all used to start rocking up at the school in the 4*4s with flasks and sandwiches to wait until little Johnny came through the gates at 15:30.

I used to live around 5 minutes from the schools and my next door neighbours would have a right commotion getting the kids in ready and in the car when by the time they had left the drive I was already at the gates.