Stafford Traffic.

[Benedict]

Wolverhampton road closed, had to go along Newport road, and do the humps run along Highfields.
Top of Beaconside road is chaos, if you want to get to M6 you have to head down toward town and do a U turn when you can and back toward the Island. If you want to go toward Stone you still have to turn left at the island to the small island as though going to the Chinese restaurant and go back up to the island, then take the road of a thousand cones.
It feels like the council are trying to stop me from leaving town. I wonder if its do to with my rates arears..

 

[tek-monkey]

Wolverhampton road closed, had to go along Newport road, and do the humps run along Highfields.
Top of Beaconside road is chaos, if you want to get to M6 you have to head down toward town and do a U turn when you can and back toward the Island. If you want to go toward Stone you still have to turn left at the island to the small island as though going to the Chinese restaurant and go back up to the island, then take the road of a thousand cones.
It feels like the council are trying to stop me from leaving town. I wonder if its do to with my rates arears..

A lot of large trucks are using Holmcroft road to head back to the motorway

 

[cj1]

Police on motorbikes are issuing fpn to people who U-turn where the no U-turn signs are. Despite the fpn risk people are still queuing to complete said U-turn. Currently the nearest legal place to turn around is turn left on to Balfour grove turn around when possible then turn right at the lights.

 

[GNM67]

Police on motorbikes are issuing fpn to people who U-turn where the no U-turn signs are. Despite the fpn risk people are still queuing to complete said U-turn. Currently the nearest legal place to turn around is turn left on to Balfour grove turn around when possible then turn right at the lights.

I had someone do a U-turn in front of me Monday afternoon when heading out of Stafford

 

[Gramaisc]

Police on motorbikes are issuing fpn to people who U-turn where the no U-turn signs are. Despite the fpn risk people are still queuing to complete said U-turn. Currently the nearest legal place to turn around is turn left on to Balfour grove turn around when possible then turn right at the lights.

Perhaps they could use the available manpower to make efforts to ease the situation?

 

[proactive]

Perhaps they could use the available manpower to make efforts to ease the situation?

Don't be stupid.

 

[proactive]

In other news, I drove 1024km on French motorways yesterday and only one set of road works. Our journey was devastated by having to do 90kmh, for two kilometres, before normality resumed.

Missing Stafford already...

 

[Gramaisc]

Don't be stupid.

I must apologise, but I have been misled by being in another world.

Where I am, the cops played a small part in the cordoning off of the town last year. They swore in a few deputies and generally left them to it, with only a slight on-site back-up presence.

This year, having proved the technique, the peripheral roadblocks were fully manned by "volunteers", with officialdom available via a brief phone call, should that have ever become necessary.

 

[proactive]

I must apologise, but I have been misled by being in another world.

Where I am, the cops played a small part in the cordoning off of the town last year. They swore in a few deputies and generally left them to it, with only a slight on-site back-up presence.

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This year, having proved the technique, the peripheral roadblocks were fully manned by "volunteers", with officialdom available via a brief phone call, should that have ever become necessary.

Pathetic, it'll never catch on...

 

[Trumpet]

A lot of large trucks are using Holmcroft road to head back to the motorway

There's always Alliance Street.

 

[cj1]

Have to be careful on that street I hear strange things happen if you hit 88mph

 

[Glam]

Have to be careful on that street I hear strange things happen if you hit 88mph

Do you go through a portal to a time when there were no speed bumps, kids could play in the streets without fear of being ploughed down by someone going too fast, and 99 ice creams really were 99p?

 

[Mudgie]

Do you go through a portal to a time when there were no speed bumps, kids could play in the streets without fear of being ploughed down by someone going too fast, and 99 ice creams really were 99p?

It has been suggested that 99 ice creams were named by immigrant Italian ice-cream sellers in honour of the final wave of Italian First World War conscripts born in 1899 and referred to as "the Boys of '99" in which case they would have been bought for a few proper pence, not 99 new pence, when there were no speed bumps and children could safely play in Alliance Street. So I am told.

 

[Theresa Green]

A lot of large trucks are using Holmcroft road to head back to the motorway

It’s the Dead Shetland Ponies in tins people

Pets Warehouse truckers

Pot Holes become Sink Holes

Sink Holes become Bath/Shower Holes

Eventually Wet Room Holes

 

[Noah]

Someone did some research into "99s" and came up with the answer that the flakes were number 99 in the manufacturers order sheet. Good as story as any other I guess.

Interesting thing on alternative transport. Some areas in this country and in Europe introduced free bus services and were very pleased with the uptake. Then they did some surveys and discovered that most of the people using the buses had previously walked or biked on their journeys, very few car drives/passengers had swapped.

 

[Withnail]

That's probably because most people who actively choose to drive, when more ecological or socially acceptable options are available, are the absolute worst people.

Then they are actually proud of it too, which makes them even worse still.

So some of our most 'active' members are actually the worst of the worst.

 

[Mudgie]

Someone did some research into "99s" and came up with the answer that the flakes were number 99 in the manufacturers order sheet. Good as story as any other I guess.

Interesting thing on alternative transport. Some areas in this country and in Europe introduced free bus services and were very pleased with the uptake. Then they did some surveys and discovered that most of the people using the buses had previously walked or biked on their journeys, very few car drives/passengers had swapped.

As for alternative transport, on Tuesday afternoon my bus from opposite the Waggon and Horses ( a Batemans house not our former Bents pub ) to York railway station was an electric one offering a more comfortable, greener and quieter journey. Maybe I should suggest that for Stafford to our MP - after the general election, of course.
I estimate that most people using the buses after 9.30am had previously walked or bicycled on their journeys, but some thirty years earlier. Without a bus pass most of them would probably just be sat at home watching the television to the detriment of their physical and especially mental health.
Maybe very few car drivers swap because they're selfish and motoring is easy, relatively cheap and, though not locally these past few days, fast.

 

[tek-monkey]

As for alternative transport, on Tuesday afternoon my bus from opposite the Waggon and Horses ( a Batemans house not our former Bents pub ) to York railway station was an electric one offering a more comfortable, greener and quieter journey. Maybe I should suggest that for Stafford to our MP - after the general election, of course.
I estimate that most people using the buses after 9.30am had previously walked or bicycled on their journeys, but some thirty years earlier. Without a bus pass most of them would probably just be sat at home watching the television to the detriment of their physical and especially mental health.
Maybe very few car drivers swap because they're selfish and motoring is easy, relatively cheap and, though not locally these past few days, fast.

Thats what I find particularly weird about Britain, it's expensive here to drive/park etc. but our public transport is priced in a way as to not compete. Instead of saying it costs x to run so thats what we charge we say well it costs y to drive and z to park so lets price our buses/trains against that instead. And then, in a really strange way of doing things, if nobody uses the trains we promise to make sure the guys who profit from them can't lose any money by throwing taxpayer cash at them.

People use cars for cost and convenience, the UK public transport system seems rigged to ensure the car is always cheaper and easier to use. Take my disastrous attempt to reach Manchester Airport in January, the cost one way was more than petrol for a return journey and it took longer on the train than to drive in the one direction, but then one train was cancelled leaving me stranded and necessitating a taxi anyway as otherwise I'd have missed my flight! Because of this I won't risk the train again for anything important. Riga dropped their bus tickets from €50 to €30 per month last year, thats any bus/trolly/tram in the city any time of any day. People there use them even if they have cars because they are frequent and cheap, even if one breaks the next is never more than 10 minutes away

 

[GNM67]

Someone did some research into "99s" and came up with the answer that the flakes were number 99 in the manufacturers order sheet. Good as story as any other I guess...

I actually saw something about this this week. When Cadbury were doing the flake during a trip to Italy they found that the ice cream shops were cutting them in half and putting them in the iced creams. there were called 99 as this was a sign of quality in Italy

 

[basil]

The first 9 used to be upside-down, that's when it was known as a meal for two......