Schools back = Heavy morning traffic
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all i see are frumpy housewives peering over the steering wheel of latest fashionable 4x4 offroader(which is usually cleaner than my evo) carting their pasty overweight kids the 2 mile journey to work.
makes my blood boil[img]images/smilies/mad.gif[/img]
[Edited by Spudgun VI - 9/5/2002 8:16:29 AM]
makes my blood boil[img]images/smilies/mad.gif[/img]
[Edited by Spudgun VI - 9/5/2002 8:16:29 AM]
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When I was a lad I rode a bike to school. There are far too many children getting lifts into school these days. I suppose it's what you have in a society of child abductions and paeodophiles. I feel the schools should encourage pooling of parents cars if they are going to drive, nationwide this could cut the problem down a great deal. I feel companys should also make it their duty to at least try schemes like this, at the end if the day they have everyones address and start finish times, it would be easy to work out schemes which have minimal fuss to the employees.
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all those people that don't work the summer, all the teachers, college dudes etc, plus people that now are off busy doing things with the kids out of the way.
Can add 50% to my journey time, but I am on flex time, so I can get in at 9.30 or 7.30, both avoid the traffic (but after 7.45 it's just as bad till 9.00)
Can add 50% to my journey time, but I am on flex time, so I can get in at 9.30 or 7.30, both avoid the traffic (but after 7.45 it's just as bad till 9.00)
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Ah, the wonders of flexi time
I hardly ever sit in queues, unless I'm late getting up.
(And I hardly ever work Friday afternoons )
You must also remember there are a good many people who work, and have kids, so they take holiday in the summer as well. It's not just the stereotypical "School run" that increases traffic.
I hardly ever sit in queues, unless I'm late getting up.
(And I hardly ever work Friday afternoons )
You must also remember there are a good many people who work, and have kids, so they take holiday in the summer as well. It's not just the stereotypical "School run" that increases traffic.
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Doc,
You noticed.. its been nice the last few weeks hasn't it - apart from the road works on the ring road.. Glad I'm not the only one to notice
You noticed.. its been nice the last few weeks hasn't it - apart from the road works on the ring road.. Glad I'm not the only one to notice
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Brun, you're the reason they need be driven to school
Saw a walking school bus once. Driving through Reigate one morning I saw about five mums and about twelve kids walking along the pavement, the mums wearing daygo jackets saying "school bus". I gave them a toot and they gave me the thumbs up.
Saw a walking school bus once. Driving through Reigate one morning I saw about five mums and about twelve kids walking along the pavement, the mums wearing daygo jackets saying "school bus". I gave them a toot and they gave me the thumbs up.
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There are loads of schemes like this all over the place now - in fact, I have a box of "school bus" reflectors underneath my desk We're even starting to make the areas outside schools "car free" here Safer for the kids but realistically just moves the problem elsewhere <sigh> if only traffic problems were easy to solve
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I'm on Flexitime, but find whenever I try to leave early on a friday everyone else has decided to and it takes 50% longer to get home!!!
Gotta agree with the comment on 6th form girls ;-) Oops best hope BeetleBabe doesn't read that
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Gotta agree with the comment on 6th form girls ;-) Oops best hope BeetleBabe doesn't read that
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