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Blue Cat Apr 27th 2009 4:11 am
The Greens
 
is driving me round the bend!! so we have the road being extended for nearly two years, fine it is expansion in the long run it will be better. Well now it is finished, well it is as far as I can see yet it is still cordoned of and all traffic crawling along in single lane. 40 minutes to get from home (Nr Nelsons) to the Greens and back :blink:

commander Apr 27th 2009 4:13 am
Re: The Greens
 
Originally Posted by Blue Cat (Post 7517657)
is driving me round the bend!! so we have the road being extended for nearly two years, fine it is expansion in the long run it will be better. Well now it is finished, well it is as far as I can see yet it is still cordoned of and all traffic crawling along in single lane. 40 minutes to get from home (Nr Nelsons) to the Greens and back :blink:
you could jog it in 10

Blue Cat Apr 27th 2009 4:15 am
Re: The Greens
 
Originally Posted by commander (Post 7517663)
you could jog it in 10
I would trust me, no pavements and a 4 year old ?

edited to add - NO ROADS

commander Apr 27th 2009 4:17 am
Re: The Greens
 
Originally Posted by Blue Cat (Post 7517667)
I would trust me, no pavements and a 4 year old ?

edited to add - NO ROADS
buy a tandem

Blue Cat Apr 27th 2009 4:18 am
Re: The Greens
 
Originally Posted by commander (Post 7517676)
buy a tandem
no pavements, no roads, it is a nightmare round here :(

Emerald_Eyes Apr 27th 2009 4:22 am
Re: The Greens
 
It's still terrible - we've been living with it for over a year now and it never gets better. Even on a Friday or Saturday night, trying to get on SZR is a 20 minute journey. I leave home by 6:30am now so I can to avoid the traffic. I'd rather get up early and have a 1 minute journey to SZR than spend up to an hour in traffic for the same route!

Blue Cat Apr 27th 2009 4:27 am
Re: The Greens
 
Originally Posted by Emerald_Eyes (Post 7517687)
It's still terrible - we've been living with it for over a year now and it never gets better. Even on a Friday or Saturday night, trying to get on SZR is a 20 minute journey. I leave home by 6:30am now so I can to avoid the traffic. I'd rather get up early and have a 1 minute journey to SZR than spend up to an hour in traffic for the same route!
I drop at school then go up to street 2, join the nightmare road and go back on myself to the roundabout, it is quicker if that makes sense, than joining it at street three where the fountain is?

Emerald_Eyes Apr 27th 2009 4:33 am
Re: The Greens
 
Originally Posted by Blue Cat (Post 7517698)
I drop at school then go up to street 2, join the nightmare road and go back on myself to the roundabout, it is quicker if that makes sense, than joining it at street three where the fountain is?
Yep - I've tried every route you can possibly think of and some of them are marginally less bad than others, but now I just skip it all together. So I get into work 45 minutes early - I'll live.

3rd Street (the Fountain) is a shocker but it's even worse if you try to join on 4th or 5th. There are just too many cars all feeding in at various points to get access to one exit point.

Blue Cat Apr 27th 2009 4:56 am
Re: The Greens
 
Originally Posted by Emerald_Eyes (Post 7517714)
Yep - I've tried every route you can possibly think of and some of them are marginally less bad than others, but now I just skip it all together. So I get into work 45 minutes early - I'll live.

3rd Street (the Fountain) is a shocker but it's even worse if you try to join on 4th or 5th. There are just too many cars all feeding in at various points to get access to one exit point.
2nd street is best for me, cut my journey down by about 20 mins at least :)

BorderTart Apr 27th 2009 5:02 am
Re: The Greens
 
Originally Posted by Blue Cat (Post 7517657)
is driving me round the bend!! so we have the road being extended for nearly two years, fine it is expansion in the long run it will be better. Well now it is finished, well it is as far as I can see yet it is still cordoned of and all traffic crawling along in single lane. 40 minutes to get from home (Nr Nelsons) to the Greens and back :blink:
I commiserate with you. I don't have to go out in the mornings very often but when I do I realise that it would drive me mad to do that journey on a daily basis.

It doesn't help when drivers "jam" the roundabouts with their inconsiderate driving. :frown:

commander Apr 27th 2009 5:34 am
Re: The Greens
 
Jeez, the trials and tribulations of the school run. What a hard life lol...

commander Apr 27th 2009 5:36 am
Re: The Greens
 
Can you not go out the rear end of the greens or is that just as bad?

Emerald_Eyes Apr 27th 2009 6:00 am
Re: The Greens
 
Originally Posted by commander (Post 7517808)
Can you not go out the rear end of the greens or is that just as bad?
Exactly - and not everyone who lives in the Greens does the school run you know, although sometimes it feels like it! School hols a few weeks ago were bliss for the rest of us.

Blue Cat Apr 27th 2009 3:07 pm
Re: The Greens
 
Originally Posted by commander (Post 7517808)
Can you not go out the rear end of the greens or is that just as bad?
everywhere is grid blocked in the morning, it is a no go situation :(

Jeeper Apr 27th 2009 4:59 pm
Re: The Greens
 
Originally Posted by Blue Cat (Post 7519171)
everywhere is grid blocked in the morning, it is a no go situation :(
International city exit at hatta road is NEVER blocked up:thumbup::thumbsup::)



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