Gridlocked?

[biggee99]

Most people stop at round about to look to see if any thing is coming When you can look before you get there, YESIF you look ahead not in front of your nose. Its a fact people MOST are brain dead cannot think without a traffic light. When i break down i get the car as far off the road on the grass verge if any. Now how many people just stop in the middle of the road they know the engine has stopped free wheel off the road. the tyre is flat so what just drive it off the road. Think of other drivers and stop thinking about yourself all the time.

[Loiner1960]

As mentioned Leeds doesn't have a transport policy. It has pie in the sky idea's. Why are there so many people in cars, travelling away from town? Because most can only afford to live out of town. The buses are rubbish and there is no alternative to driving a car. Hopefully those terrorists we are being told about don't realise that to bring Leeds to it's knee's, no bombs, guns or suicide anything. Park 3 lorries, one on the Armley Gyratory, one on the A64(M) going towards Seacroft and the last in the Loop, anywhere in the Loop. Result. Totally solid traffic for hours, maybe even days.But having said that, Clarence Dock was still empty.

[tyke bhoy]

Leodian wrote: The headline in the YEP today is "GRIDLOCKED!". In the accompanying report it states "MOTORISTS were today warned they face at least FIVE days of traffic misery on key commuter routes in Leeds" (the capitalised words are as in the report). http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/n ... 97637.jpWe can't claim the YEP shaffled this from here as this evenings paper was printed before my lunchtime post

[simpotts]

personally i think a lot of this is caused by leeds so called "services" industry,ie,most of the people heading into leeds on a morning know how to use there phone and computer screen to sell unwanted services,and probably dont even realise that "the bent bit of metal with the funny shaped hole in the end "in the boot is actually there to help in changing a wheel,god help us all.

[raveydavey]

It took us 45 minutes yesterday to get across Leeds to the Vue cinema on Kirkstall Road due to the halfwits on the Gyratory. Should have taken 20 minutes tops. Traffic was at a standstill as far back as Lovell Park (the Halifax building) on the IRR.Left the cinema just before 5pm and it took 20 minutes to get under the viaduct to the traffic lights. Me being clever I decided to avoid the snarled up city centre area and nip back "cross country" via Headingley and Meanwood. Also near gridlocked and it took an hour and a half to get home. Marvellous. Don't suggest public transport cos that was stuck in the jams too.Add to that the 6 months worth of barrier works on the M621 that have just started, complete with 40mph limit and Specs average speed cameras every quarter mile (including every exit on and off ramp) and there you have it. Why though, is the speed limit on the M621 reduced to 40mph? When they were replacing the barriers on the M62 (ie exactly the same job), the limit was dropped to 50mph, so why the lower limit on the M621?I just hope to high heaven that the rain that is due later in the week doesn't block up that problem drain under the Armley Gyratory or we might as well all give up.

[tyke bhoy]

raveydavey wrote: Why though, is the speed limit on the M621 reduced to 40mph? When they were replacing the barriers on the M62 (ie exactly the same job), the limit was dropped to 50mph, so why the lower limit on the M621? Because the limit is 50mph on most of the M621 when unencumbered??It has always mystified me why contraflows on the motorway have a speed limit of 50 mph when cones separate the two directions traffic yet on single carriageway with only white lines and cats eyes separating the two traffic flows the National speed limit of 60mph can be applied. The idea of protecting the workforce no longer applies as they are usually protected by enough concrete to constitute a nuclear bunker.

[tyke bhoy]

and amidst all that chaos some eejit decides it would be a good idea to cone off one of the two lanes for most of the length of the Quebec Street section of the loop Also although not deliberate there was an accident on the corner of Wellington Street and King Street

[raveydavey]

tyke bhoy wrote: and amidst all that chaos some eejit decides it would be a good idea to cone off one of the two lanes for most of the length of the Quebec Street section of the loop Also although not deliberate there was an accident on the corner of Wellington Street and King Street I noticed that this morning, not mentioned once on the travel news or on the BBC travel website, or on the councils own travelinfo website. It was gone by half 4 this afternoon though. Don't know if you noticed but the actual "roadworks" actually stood into the carriageway for about 2 foot from the kerb, so why they needed to cone a full lane off goodness only knows...How about this for a revolutionary idea? Much of the traffic heading for t'Gyratory on the Inner Ring Road is heading for the motorways - so why not put some HUGE signs up near Great Clothes on York Road and direct it all onto the vastly underused 'new' section of the IRR and over John Smeaton Viaduct and onto the motorway there, rather than allowing to to plough on in a lemming like fashion? Or is that missing the point?

[chameleon]

tyke bhoy wrote: and amidst all that chaos some eejit decides it would be a good idea to cone off one of the two lanes for most of the length of the Quebec Street section of the loop Also although not deliberate there was an accident on the corner of Wellington Street and King Street And still, when turning right onto Gt George street from Cookridge Street on the loop you find the right lane (no longer closed) but reduced in width. The statuory warning signs, yup, round the blind corner only seen once you are on top of the works - seen a few interesting manouvres there

[chameleon]

tyke bhoy wrote: and amidst all that chaos some eejit decides it would be a good idea to cone off one of the two lanes for most of the length of the Quebec Street section of the loop Also although not deliberate there was an accident on the corner of Wellington Street and King Street And still, when turning right onto Gt George street from Cookridge Street on the loop you find the right lane (no longer closed) but reduced in width. The statuory warning signs, yup, round the blind corner only seen once you are on top of the works, nothing to alert one before the turn - seen a few interesting manouvres there