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Stafford Traffic.
- Thread starter captainpish
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4 lane motorways are a joke. You end up with HGV in three lanes.
c0tt0nt0p
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On the rare occasions that happens then so be it... Its the single cars in lanes 2 & 3 doing 60-70 not overtaking that are a bigger issue imo
Mudgie
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Yes, that's for a year or two until it's well known that it's less than 2½ hours driving to Finchley so more do it until the motorways are as clogged up as when they had three lanes.
proactive
Enjoying a drop of red.
Well I'm sure that if this is a regular journey for @c0tt0nt0p, he will be relieved to know that he has a year or two of traffic free drives ahead of him before the journey becomes a living hell with the roads clogged with other Staffordians driving to Finchley of a Saturday.
Mudgie
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Yes, that's right.
Back in 1937, yes 85 years ago, research proved that building new roads just created more traffic.
What's needed is more capacity on the railways, but that won't be for a few years.
kyoto49
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You still do it? I regularly have to be in Brierley Hill/Merry Hell for 8am. Its a 1 hour journey in normal traffic via M5 J2 Absolutely no way do I get this journey done at that time in the morning without stationary traffic on the M6. Id need to leave at 6.30 to have a hope of being here for 8 and 7.15 to be certain to be there for 9. My company actually won't plan any meetings before 10 as its such an issue.
Nothing will convince me that the car is better than a good public transport system. Sadly this is not a thing to get from Stafford to Merry Hell so I get to enjoy standing traffic every time I have to go. Same as coming back, queueing up to the M6 if I leave after 3, and often before.
Mudgie
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"Nothing will convince me that the car is better than a good public transport system". Nor me.
The Midland metro should get you to Brierley Hill/Merry Hell easily enough but it took twenty years for the mile extension from Snow Hill to New Street and the one from Wolverhampton city centre to the railway station so you've probably got quite a wait.
Sadly very different to Manchester's with several lines and a hundred stops.
staffordjas
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I was hoping the M5 cameras would pick up the morons going down the red X lanes yesterday as we drove back from Stafford. Signs were showing lanes closed due to accidents. Most only got over when they saw the cop car parked by first accident with arrows flashing to move over.
Then got back straight into the red X lane again to undertake the crawling queues, even though gantries were still saying accident ahead, and having to swerve back out of it when suddenly finding a 2nd accident blocking the red X carriageway further along! Nearly caused another accident themselves by swerving back out into gaps which weren't there!
It would be better, it's just most people move around jobs now and so the roads are chock full from people who similarly can't get to their workplace easily on a train.
It might be 30 mins from Penkridge/Stafford to Brum but by the time you've added 15 mins walk from workplace to station (plus contingency) then the trip from station to home that 30 mins becomes more like 1hr 30.
I bought a house in Stafford as I was working here. Wish I hadn't bothered now, that job came to an end in 2016 and there's not much else around here. The technology park may as well be called an office park as there's only a few instances of technology there.
Mudgie
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Towing away and auctioning them would be more lucrative.
Maybe I could suggest that to my MP. No, I wouldn't even get a reply.
proactive
Enjoying a drop of red.
But this is more visible and likely to act as more of a deterrent.
Personally I'd crush them and leave them, cubed, on the owner's drive or front garden to act as deterrent.
joshua
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Time was you would have left the owner inside, you going soft in your old age ?,
kyoto49
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I've had to travel to Oldbury every day this week. It should be easy, M6 to J8, M5 to J2 and a short hop to the site Im working at. Even leaving at 6.20am has seen me stuck in traffic around j10 everyday bar Monday. What should be a straight forward 35 min journey has turned in to an endurance test to find alternative routes.
It's been the same on the way back, leaving around 2pm the M5 has been jammed from J1 each day.
Why can't we get a decent transport system in this country? I'm working a mile from Sandwell and Dudley train station but the logistics of that just make the whole thing unworkable.
Backward, our whole profit and shareholders only approach to everything has made us a backward failure.
It's been the same on the way back, leaving around 2pm the M5 has been jammed from J1 each day.
Why can't we get a decent transport system in this country? I'm working a mile from Sandwell and Dudley train station but the logistics of that just make the whole thing unworkable.
Backward, our whole profit and shareholders only approach to everything has made us a backward failure.
Trumpet
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Untaxed vehicles in Stafford are currently clamped by a private contractor acting under devolved powers granted by the DVLA. If the vehicle remains untaxed after 24 hours it is lifted to their pound in Stoke. If unclaimed, dependant upon the value of the vehicle, eg under £1k or over £1k after a maximum of 14 days they take ownership and dispose of the vehicle however they see fit. Usually either scrapped or E-bayed, the proceeds are retained by the contractor.