Jaybird-UK

Yesterday on the hottest day of the year, during rush hour, on one of the countries busiest A roads the idiots decide its a good idea to...


Close one lane off, reduce speed to 30, and then hold a traffic survey

http://www.thisisessex.co.uk/display...oad_census.php

Drivers' tempers bubbled beyond boiling point on the hottest July day in history as they waited in seven miles of tailbacks on the A127.

Patience quickly melted away as motorists realised it was not a major accident that had reduced the major road to one lane...but a traffic census, set up on the London-bound carriageway at the Fortune of War junction, Laindon.

Hot-under-the-collar motorists queued throughout the day, all the way back to Progress Road in Southend, while side roads were jammed as people tried to escape the sweltering queues.

Anyone else caught in this utter lunacy?

Two days previously they did it on the A130 also

Fantom

I got caught and interviewed coming out of Wickford a few weeks ago. They've been doing them in a few different places in Essex. The day you mention was the worst though, as half my office was late!

Steve

madmooro

done again today on the a130 towards a127 .lucky it was only a small queue

can u refuse to stop and answer questions ??

alcazar

iTrader: (2)

AFAIK, you CANNOT refuse to stop, but you DO NOT have to answer any questions other than name and address.

Fekkin Pigs!

Alcazar

mart360

its the new NL stealth word, Partnership, under that guise they can do what they like, because it involves you..

funny i never got consulted over any of the so called scamera partnerships, !!

and given that we are major stakeholder,s we get a shabby deal!!!!



mart


teflon, dead man walking


Mart

Jaybird-UK

it made the sun

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2006330583,00.html

richardg

met our kitchen supplier in the pub last night for a few beers and he was caught on the a130 on the way to wickford the other morning. luckily i only have a 5 min drive to work and by the time i leave the office for site visits the position of the census roadblocks are reasonably well known (listen to essex fm for the traffic ) and you can avoid those areas

jowl

What if you refuse to give your name? Would they arrest you ?

Scooby.Newbie

That is the worse road in the world as well, and what is it with the round-a-bout that has no exits on it, never could figure out what that was all about.

SN

Iwan

They were doing these in Swindon recently, caused big tailbacks here too right during rush hour.

You definately have to stop if instructed, as it's the police who are intructing you to stop. No idea whether you have to answer their questions though, or what they ask. I was lucky enough to not get stopped, and went another way the next couple of days.

DarkStar66

Got caught up in the A130 census the other day, it was queued up nearly all the way to the A12 junction. I say nearly because it didn't quite go far enough back to alert me not to go that way!!! It added at least 20 mins to my journey to work, not as bad as elsewhere but still really annoying.

I had decided that if I was stopped I'd leave the radio on full blast and make up the answers! But I didn't even get stopped.

Rage!

I just tell them a fake name and address and then a complete load of bollox like I am on my way to space camp and I do the journey 6 times daily, 4 times in this vehicle and the other two in a moon buggy.

They either write it down and don't twig or they get pissy and send me away

Leslie

Its the mindless stupidity of a load of self important prats who can't see farther than the ends of their noses!

Les