Manchester traffic

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Wednesday made me want to pack in my job and take a lesser wage job within walking distance. Sick of it. And night games are becoming a real problem, having to leave work earlier and earlier to make them.
 
The government happily up the tax on diesels but cause more pollution by slowing traffic to a standstill. You only have to look at the M6 as a prime example, systematically orchestrated traffic jams with the variable speed limits to try and frustrate drivers out of their cars and it’s happening in every city centre these days too. The M60/M62 between Rochdale and Trafford can take 20 minutes on a clear run, in a morning it’s taken me 1.5 hours some days due to the 50mph limits and roadworks that no cnut is ever working on.
 
I picked my lad up from work in Middlewich at 4.00 pm and remarkably we got to the Heineken Brewery on Moss Side at 5.05 pm.As we got within 50 yards of the first roundabout for the Mancunian Way it took us approx 15 minutes to get within 1 minute of reaching the Etihad and then the biggest fuck up off the night,orchestrated by GMP.
3000 Dutch fans were given a police escort from city centre to the Etihad causing a fucking gigantic standstill of traffic in every direction,not just around the Etihad,but everywhere in Manchester.
Add to that Little Mix were also on at The Arena,the Christmas Markets were on and what do you get ... a fucking meltdown.
Now I accept that with that amount of away fans coming to the ground that security needs to be tight,but why the fuck move them from the city centre to the ground at 5.00 pm the daft bastards.
The one worrying scenario that could have happened at that time of night could have been a terrorist attack in town and fuck knows how the emergency services would have coped.
Senior GMP Officers must have had a brain fart to help organise such chaos on a grand scale that night.
Tossers the lot of `em.
 
Prestwich_Blue said:
I'm in Phoenix, Arizona at the moment and have just driven on a 6-lane urban freeway (5 standard lanes plus a high-occupancy lane at rush hour). They still have jams & bumper-to-bumper traffic at times but I was laughing with my son about the 6-lane highway compared to the 1-lane highway that is a Bury New Road, a major arterial and commuter route from the City centre to the M60.
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I work in Sedgley Park and haven't used Bury New Rd since some idiot planner decided to halt traffic for the pleasure of widening the damn pavements. On the rare occasion that i have, I've seen people walk to Prestwich Village quicker than I could drive - and still months of work to go. Should be a dual carriageway given the volume of traffic.
 
What's with the feckin "bus gate" on Oxford Road. Been done for that, didn't even know it was a thing.

I very rarely drive in to Manchester, but had to on this particular day and last time it was an ordinary road. Money grabbing twunts.
 
discopop said:
Congestion charge voted out, unsuable road management voted in, deliberate ploy by the council
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Exactly this.

I would'nt mind but the public transport options are awful/expensive, hence so many people still opting to use their cars.

Absolute shitshow from the authorities tbh.
 
Stockton Heath Blue said:
I work in Sedgley Park and haven't used Bury New Rd since some idiot planner decided to halt traffic for the pleasure of widening the damn pavements. On the rare occasion that i have, I've seen people walk to Prestwich Village quicker than I could drive - and still months of work to go. Should be a dual carriageway given the volume of traffic.
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My mate has a bee in his bonnet about the work on BNR and actually met the guy at Bury Council who planned it. He asked if the guy had ever driven down there and it turned out he lived in Ramsbottom so hadn't. Also the majority who expressed a preference in the consultation didn't want that single lane scheme but they went ahead with it anyway.
 
remember arthur mann said:
Big problem this, no backyards around the Etihad to leave your bike !
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I have cycled to the Etihad for every Champions' League fixture this season. I live 6.2 miles away door-to-door with a cycling time of 27 minutes. Bike parking is plentiful at the stadium. I love it. It's easily the quickest way to get to the match. You can be waiting half an hour just to get on the tram for instance!
Give it a go!
 
JOGAMIGMOG said:
I have cycled to the Etihad for every Champions' League fixture this season. I live 6.2 miles away door-to-door with a cycling time of 27 minutes. Bike parking is plentiful at the stadium. I love it. It's easily the quickest way to get to the match. You can be waiting half an hour just to get on the tram for instance!
Give it a go!
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Where's the parking ?
 
Shuffs said:
What's with the feckin "bus gate" on Oxford Road. Been done for that, didn't even know it was a thing.

I very rarely drive in to Manchester, but had to on this particular day and last time it was an ordinary road. Money grabbing twunts.
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A few of us got done here on the night of the wolves game. Come out of the car park at work on oxford road and it was gridlocked because of that big fire on ashton old road. Decided to try a different way and went down oxford road not knowing it was buses only. A few got tickets in the post this week. Mines not come yet, but my car was shown in front of someone’s at work on the photo haha

It only stretches for about 50 meters ffs
 
I’ve never had to commute for 15 years I used to walking to work I’ve recently moved it now takes me 45 mins to travel 6 miles to drop my daughter at a school near my station, it’s fucking ridiculous. Also I knew the standard of driving was bad but it’s gettibg atrocious red lighting jumping, blocking junctions causing everyone else to block as people can’t move on green. As for cycle lanes on major roads they are shit and not safe, I’m sure more would cycle if the cunts in cars were more respectful I know I would, but there’s now way I’m taking my life into my hands with these pricks on the road.
 
worsleyweb said:
Developers are paying 5k section 106 for every apartment built generally and the ratio of parking provision with each new build apartment is low. A lot of these apartment dwellers don’t want or use cars.
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I am working on the new Kampus project between Chorlton Street and Aytoun Street. 500 apartments are being built but not a single parking place.
On these City dwellers not wanting cars a lad on there whose sister lives in town told me she has no need for a car with everything being on her doorstep. If she wants to go anywhere she simply hires one for a few days.
 
It's a National problem. I live in Lincoln and it often takes me 45 minutes to do a 5 mile journey that should take no more than 20 minutes. Too many cars on the road; not enough room.

Kids can't /won't walk more than a few hundred yards to school. The local roads are so much clearer when kids are off school.

Also, there are so many people who would rather sit in their car in traffic for 10 minutes rather than walk for 15 minutes.
 
Prestwich_Blue said:
I'm in Phoenix, Arizona at the moment and have just driven on a 6-lane urban freeway (5 standard lanes plus a high-occupancy lane at rush hour). They still have jams & bumper-to-bumper traffic at times but I was laughing with my son about the 6-lane highway compared to the 1-lane highway that is a Bury New Road, a major arterial and commuter route from the City centre to the M60.
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The highway (401) that runs east/west in Toronto is 16 lanes (8 each way) and it is crammed to the tits most times.
 
Isnt the bloke that has headed planning in greater Manchester for the last 20 years vociferously anti-car? I cant remember his name but they had him on gmr just after they'd finished turning the a580 into a bus lane
 
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