Blue Cat

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

commander

you could jog it in 10

Blue Cat

I would trust me, no pavements and a 4 year old ?

edited to add - NO ROADS

commander

buy a tandem

Blue Cat

no pavements, no roads, it is a nightmare round here

Emerald_Eyes

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

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

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

2nd street is best for me, cut my journey down by about 20 mins at least

BorderTart

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.

commander

Jeez, the trials and tribulations of the school run. What a hard life lol...

commander

Can you not go out the rear end of the greens or is that just as bad?

Emerald_Eyes

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

everywhere is grid blocked in the morning, it is a no go situation

Jeeper

International city exit at hatta road is NEVER blocked up



(yes - that's a ner ner na ner ner post)