Manchester traffic

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Gorton_Tubster said:
for me it's an 1 1/2 hour to get in. 2 hours to get back home, on average. This week with no kids in school it's down to 1 1/2 hours home

So I tried the train, fuck me, what a joke. I was getting home even later and costing twice as much and everyone is pissed off at the station.

Something has to change
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Id be worried about the air quality if traffics that bad, sitting behind a car or truck for 3.5 hours a day while it pouts out all kinds of shit at your air intake isnt great for your health.

If I was you Id live nearer work.
 
Its been shit every morning and night this week. Fuck knows how bad it will be if this snow I keep hearing about hits us
 
Fame Monster said:
Don't know why they don't just suspend some of the bus lanes while the roadworks are going on.
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Because many councils have full-on anti-motorist policies. Salford relented with the bus lane near Hope Hospital in a rare act of sanity. The Scouse Git council scrapped several bus lanes several years ago, but Manchester will never follow such a sensible path,
 
There wasn’t much forward planning for the volume of cars round the Barton area of the m60 is. Having 3 motorways in the 602, 62 and the 61 either joining or exiting the m60 plus having the Barton bridge which you can’t exatly add new lanes to the side of without probably having to knock it down and start again. Then putting one of the biggest shopping centres in the country and a load of other attractions in close proximity.

It’s always that bit of the 60 that causes the gridlock one bump and the rest of Manchester is late for work by an hour. Spending money on smart motorways has achieved the square route of fuck all and they have now decided to ditch the idea for the rest of the motorway network due to safety reasons.
 
Is there a permanent crash site between junctions 18-20 on the M6 I fuckin dread approaching there on my way up, nailed on accident every time ...! Then I hit the traffic you lot are on about, soul destroying does not cover it :-(
 
nimrod said:
Id be worried about the air quality if traffics that bad, sitting behind a car or truck for 3.5 hours a day while it pouts out all kinds of shit at your air intake isnt great for your health.

If I was you Id live nearer work.
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https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www....chester-pollution-charging-zones-15319275.amp

My old housemate was from North Wales and he used to say that when he first moved to Manchester, and any time he went home for Christmas for a week or two and came back to Mcr again, he’d think the air was thick to breathe here compared to the countryside of North Wales and he’d have a tickly cough after a few days of being back.
 
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East Level 2 said:
Last night (Thursday) there were four crashes on the M60 before 4 o'clock; two in each direction. Hence the carnage.
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I don’t know about everyone else but i find it extremely easy to use motorways and not crash. How those fuck nuts who crash everyday on the M6 around j18 manage to do it whilst going in a straight line at 50mph is beyond me.
 
In Poynton there is a new road at the oil terminal end to join the new bypass. Opened just before Christmas. There is a set of lights at Chester Road that has at least 3 accidents a week. There is something badly wrong with the lights sequencing at that junction.
 
Horrific this week. Whoever planned this absolute cluster fuck of road works is without doubt a vegan council working cyclist. It is bloody depressing.
 
had to be in work early today. Got on the M60 at Simister at 6:45 and it was gridlocked purely cos of heavy traffic. Fucking fuming !!!
 
Burnham has been lauding the government decision to give their word to extend Metrolink to Stockport, Bolton and Wigan. Whilst in theory this is good, the guided bus is a joke to Atherton and Leigh, what effect with this have on Stockport? There are 15 trains between 08:00 and 09:00 from Stockport to Manchester Piccadilly. Trams run around one every six minutes on most lines so that's a net loss of services.

This is the government doing Metrolink on the chap whilst our taxes pay for new lines in London on a continuous basis. We need new lines not trams replacing trains. We need circle line around the M60 to make it more accessible. We need conductors on every tram so everyone pays. The Metrolink is a shambles and I don't trust the operators to deliver with more services. I got it a few months ago from Hollinwood to town and it was that packed there was a fight. People could have been seriously hurt but safety is ignored on the tram. I won't let my family travel alone as its not safe, the stations the trams are full of feral pricks causing ASB and crime.
 
manchester blue said:
Burnham has been lauding the government decision to give their word to extend Metrolink to Stockport, Bolton and Wigan. Whilst in theory this is good, the guided bus is a joke to Atherton and Leigh, what effect with this have on Stockport? There are 15 trains between 08:00 and 09:00 from Stockport to Manchester Piccadilly. Trams run around one every six minutes on most lines so that's a net loss of services.

This is the government doing Metrolink on the chap whilst our taxes pay for new lines in London on a continuous basis. We need new lines not trams replacing trains. We need circle line around the M60 to make it more accessible. We need conductors on every tram so everyone pays. The Metrolink is a shambles and I don't trust the operators to deliver with more services. I got it a few months ago from Hollinwood to town and it was that packed there was a fight. People could have been seriously hurt but safety is ignored on the tram. I won't let my family travel alone as its not safe, the stations the trams are full of feral pricks causing ASB and crime.
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The guided bus way to Leigh and Atherton is getting to the point where the buses are dangerously over filled on an evening. It sits in traffic jams just past Salford precinct, what’s the point of having a bus route that gets bottle necked in traffic? They fucked up not putting the metro link in, we should have one seemless public transport network across the whole of Manchester not like it is now.
 
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