In this day & age of smart phones, Google maps is the best app you can ever have. My 20 minute journey to Sidcup diverted me because of traffic & only added another 5 minutes onto the journey
In this day & age of smart phones, Google maps is the best app you can ever have. My 20 minute journey to Sidcup diverted me because of traffic & only added another 5 minutes onto the journey
..what shoulda been a 20 minute journey, ended up being 23 minutes Ffs
I have to say Westmount Road was fine until your mates decided to move in.
Grand opening tomorrow I think mate. Go in for a coffee and throw a pot and say I sent ya. Reckon you might get a sachet of sugar on the house pal
If the tunnel is still fooked, they should get out on the street and sell coffees Charlton Athletic 2016/17 season tickets to the gridlocked motorists.
In this day & age of smart phones, Google maps is the best app you can ever have. My 20 minute journey to Sidcup diverted me because of traffic & only added another 5 minutes onto the journey
Martin Compton, 50, got trapped in the traffic after dropping off his daughter at school in Plumstead.
He said he stopped some "four or five miles" from the Blackwall Tunnel near Charlton Park yet before spending hours sat in stationary traffic.
The University of Greenwich lecturer, who was late for work and forced to set up his laptop in his car, said: "It's amazing. There are streams of people walking the bus routes. People are getting out their cars and talking to each other."
He added: "I've unbelievable. I've never seen it this bad, even when Charlton play a big game and your make the mistake of coming this way.
At least Martin Compton won't have that problem next season, thanks to the efforts of RD and KM.
If a new crossing was approved,tunnel or bridge,why would there only be one?Can't we have two or three new crossings built simultaneously to stop these problems for the next thirty or forty years? I suppose whichever was to be built there would be a ten year public enquiry beforehand anyway.And then ten years to build the damn thing.At three times the original estimate. Can't someone,somewhere,in government just get their finger out and sort this mess within a person's lifetime? Has anyone seen anywhere a calculation for annual lost working hours caused by the delays at the Dartford Tunnel? Must be a staggering amount of wasted time and fuel.Add in the detrimental health effects of the stress and pollution.Multiplied over the last twenty years or so. I suppose Dartford is just far enough out of Westminster's sight to be ignored.Or there are no MP's who have to suffer it daily. As for the Blackwall and Rotherhithe tunnels,they belong in museums.
If a new crossing was approved,tunnel or bridge,why would there only be one?Can't we have two or three new crossings built simultaneously to stop these problems for the next thirty or forty years? I suppose whichever was to be built there would be a ten year public enquiry beforehand anyway.And then ten years to build the damn thing.At three times the original estimate. Can't someone,somewhere,in government just get their finger out and sort this mess within a person's lifetime? Has anyone seen anywhere a calculation for annual lost working hours caused by the delays at the Dartford Tunnel? Must be a staggering amount of wasted time and fuel.Add in the detrimental health effects of the stress and pollution.Multiplied over the last twenty years or so. I suppose Dartford is just far enough out of Westminster's sight to be ignored.Or there are no MP's who have to suffer it daily. As for the Blackwall and Rotherhithe tunnels,they belong in museums.
What we really need to do is build the Gallions Reach crossing, the Silvertown crossing, the Belvedere crossing, a second ferry, another bridge somewhere and make them all dual carriageways at the very least, all 100% paid for by the government without a toll in sight. Hell If the was a political party whose sole aim was to do all that then they'd get my vote
gutted i miss those times when i couldnt even get the car out the drive in Correli re the backed up traffic---gutting that it took me a full 2 mins to walk from the front door to the white cliffs to sit and read my book---bastard !!!
That is pretty incredible. Not sure how they would navigate around the small, tight streets of the City of London if they were to bring them to the UK. Fantastic concept though.
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Come to think of it, they could pop in and make a pot and the car in front would still have not moved.
Fooking 7 and a half hours in a car for a 9 mile each way journey
You what? A "garden bridge" in the West you say? Nah, there's already plenty of bridges there. I ain't falling for that!
I suppose whichever was to be built there would be a ten year public enquiry beforehand anyway.And then ten years to build the damn thing.At three times the original estimate.
Can't someone,somewhere,in government just get their finger out and sort this mess within a person's lifetime?
Has anyone seen anywhere a calculation for annual lost working hours caused by the delays at the Dartford Tunnel? Must be a staggering amount of wasted time and fuel.Add in the detrimental health effects of the stress and pollution.Multiplied over the last twenty years or so.
I suppose Dartford is just far enough out of Westminster's sight to be ignored.Or there are no MP's who have to suffer it daily.
As for the Blackwall and Rotherhithe tunnels,they belong in museums.
http://www.lower-thames-crossing.co.uk/consultation/
While TfL have a new crossing(s) planned as well
https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/publications-and-reports/new-river-crossings-for-london
https://tfl.gov.uk/travel-information/improvements-and-projects/silvertown-tunnel
Obviously, finances and politics will have an effect on these proposals
I'm assuming that the Dartford crossing was significantly more busy than usual because of this?
http://www.msn.com/en-gb/travel/news/china-to-develop-a-bus-that-straddles-traffic/ar-BBtsmXd?li=BBoPOOl