Aberdeen - Ridiculous Traffic Tonight
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Rosemount Place to the Train Station to Stratstone Jaguar on Lang Stracht, and back down Westburn Road to Rosemount Place.
Total journey, what? 3 miles?
Total Journey time = 3 hours.
Thankfully someone on Westburn Road had unsecured wireless, so i used my N96 to get on BBC iPlayer and watched last weeks episode of QI and the Best of Top Gear episode from Sunday. I watched 1 1/2 hours of TV on Westburn Road.
Ridiculous!!!
Total journey, what? 3 miles?
Total Journey time = 3 hours.
Thankfully someone on Westburn Road had unsecured wireless, so i used my N96 to get on BBC iPlayer and watched last weeks episode of QI and the Best of Top Gear episode from Sunday. I watched 1 1/2 hours of TV on Westburn Road.
Ridiculous!!!
It's pretty awful. The traffic was actually nose to tail from the lights at the beach boulevard right along the beach front down to the lights at bridge of don. The road past pittodrie was queued right up as well.
The number of folk driving down the middle/wrong side of the road skipping queues is ridiculous!
The number of folk driving down the middle/wrong side of the road skipping queues is ridiculous!
Took me an hour to get from Gt Western road to Rosemount (Mount Street). The traffic was shocking. Didn't help that a guy sat at the top of union street bloking 2 lanes not moving for the best part of 15 minutes.
I try to avoid the train station when its dry let alone snowing! The OP must have the patience of a saint.
I try to avoid the train station when its dry let alone snowing! The OP must have the patience of a saint.
Just posted
this
then read this thread.
Sounds like I made the right decision taking the day off.
Mind you, I still can't understand what all the problems in town were about. There's hardly any snow at all. (Not that Aberdeen council need snow to make a mess of traffic around the train & bus station area - they've been doing that quite successfully for the last couple of years without the aid of snow).
John
this
then read this thread.
Sounds like I made the right decision taking the day off.
Mind you, I still can't understand what all the problems in town were about. There's hardly any snow at all. (Not that Aberdeen council need snow to make a mess of traffic around the train & bus station area - they've been doing that quite successfully for the last couple of years without the aid of snow).
John
Edited by John_W on Friday 6th February 21:49
My impression of what happened is that loads of companies said that the staff could leave early because of the weather. The result was that everyone ended up on the roads at the same time. The traffic is bad enough in Dyce at the best of times. When you suddenly throw everyone onto the road at the same time in what weren't the best conditions, the innevitable will happen.
Now I've no objection to people leaving early to get out to the country while the roads are still passable but I think that a mass free for all is completely unnecessary. You can excuse the southerners who only have to deal with snow once every 20 years but what's happening to this place?
I could see cars on Pitmedden Road that were taking an hour to move 200 yards! We had people here that genuinely needed to try to get home because the roads were getting really bad but had no chance of even getting out of Dyce. A few of them ended up leaving their cars and walking to the station to get the train while they were still running and then figure out how to get home from there.
And it doesn't stop there - I couldn't even get to a shop to get a sandwich for my lunch!
Now I've no objection to people leaving early to get out to the country while the roads are still passable but I think that a mass free for all is completely unnecessary. You can excuse the southerners who only have to deal with snow once every 20 years but what's happening to this place?
I could see cars on Pitmedden Road that were taking an hour to move 200 yards! We had people here that genuinely needed to try to get home because the roads were getting really bad but had no chance of even getting out of Dyce. A few of them ended up leaving their cars and walking to the station to get the train while they were still running and then figure out how to get home from there.
And it doesn't stop there - I couldn't even get to a shop to get a sandwich for my lunch!
naughty naughty very naughty
Wish they'd hurry up and build the bypass. The traffic is becoming a bit of a joke even on a normal day, to drive from mannofield to the harbour takes me 15 minutes when its quiet, even with all the badly placed traffic lights on my route however the 'office hours' journey on the same route takes 45 minutes!!!
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