Well, traffic lights...Bath road, ,west town lane in Brislington a BAD TIME to go on the blink is approaching rush hour from 430 onwards and today they failed ...... A terrible snarl up, miles of backed up traffic, irate motorists road rage ...... ...NO.... I HAVE SEEN IT WORSE on a Christmas day! lol from keynsham direction the traffic flowed to the park and ride lights as normal, but traffic from the retail park and industrial park was simply free to join an almost empty road all the way past the village into Bristol.... traffic from Bristol was uninterrupted all the way through past the park and ride and Briz hill in this direction was almost deserted .....however traffic turning into west town was the same as normal, but when it got a chance lack of traffic from keynsham direction it cleared about 30 or more cars...usually 10 or so I was in it at 430 pm and 5 30 pm went in both directions.... for a long time peeps have said these lights drastically slow traffic ... hey tonight it proved it! no lights faster passage
When I found those traffic lights had stopped working on my way home yesterday it actually made my journey much easier once I had got through from the bottom of St Phillips Causeway to the Black Castle/Bath Road. The lights at Aztec West also recently failed and again no backlog. Apparently the Ring Road from the M32 towards Kingwsood is due to fully reopen ahead of schedule in April and that will make a huge difference to my journey home on certain shifts.
MID DAY TODAY traffic lights working, just got back from same journey between 430 and 530 yesterday today 11 to 12 and ques from village up and park and ride down, ques from estate roads ....shouted out to engineers on corner at LIDL'S "switch them off get the traffic moving" they shrugged their shoulders and adopted the pose with hands by side palms showing, .....
Hmmm, thanks John. I think I might take the Ring Road home tonight then and then dart down Hungerford Road before the junction with West Town Lane. The journey down the M32 and then via St Phillips Causeway last night was horrible from Easton Way onwards.
Will be back to normal I guess come 5 30 ish long que for west town lane from village nose to tail from park and ride ... unless they learned something last night and are altering the timings???
It's all about timing..... In the end I had to go down the M32 and through Barton Hill and up the Bath Road yesterday. Overall the journey home took me 10 minutes less than it did on Wednesday. Let's hope it's better again on the way home tonight !
ABSOLUTELY stupidity ...pot holes .. on the road between the old horses home and the start of the houses in Stockwood there has been 3 serious accidents in the past couple of weeks in the area approaching the mini roundabout. One was a helicopter job . due mostly to speed instinct and potholes .. they repaired about 8 of about 15 bad ones, but shoddily as the area immediately adjacent to the repair is now worse than the original and there has been no snow in then past 10 days! 4 of the ones they missed are now about 12-15" diameter and 6" or more deep. (45 cms x 20cms ) twice I have just missed being hit as a car see's them at last minute and swerves to middle of road ...... they are mostly the result of utility work over the past year, and poorly re made surface upon completion of the reason they dug up the road..... how long before someone dies!!!!!
listening to a couple of women chatting away as they have their done at home ... Stockwood / Whitchurch has been alledgedly put on a "long term" bottom of the list for urgent remedial work whilst Red Trousers, in my opinion very poor, successor, contentrates on pet projects around the city centre. There is a wall I the shopping precinct area which a couple of years ago .. yes a couple years ago partially collapsed .. so a sign was put up and no work was done to repair or make safe other than a wire fence.. apparently when pressed for it to be repaired the answer was akin to like "there are 101 important jobs to be done and you are 1093 on the list! POTHOLES ... they came and tried to repair a few weeks ago .. happeth of tar comes to mind .. as pointed out a week ago the area around those done is getting bad and the ones that wernt so bad gained depths of 20 plus cms. Well good news and of course bad .... 4 or 5 of the wheel/tyre/suspension accident causing ones have been white lined for repair... the hilarious no HILARIOUS aspect of this is rather than do a proper job ...they are repairing small bit close to small bits with the stuff in the middle crumbling and likely to need repair in the coming weeks. Cost 5 men 7 hours = £1400 per day plus tar cost and likely vehicle/tools cost of £200 a day. THEY DID 4 holes in 20 mins probably about less than ,a square metre in total, but 1 bloke was just down the road 20 m preparing 2 or 3 more ... 1 bloke on traffic 1 in the cab 2 filling and pounding............ in a 20 sq metre area is 5 just done 2+ weeks ago repairs, 4 of which need redoing, 11 holes that are deeper than 5 cms 5 deeper than 20 cms and about 15 areas where surface has gone and is about 2-3 cms deep of patch's and ruts doing the main area it is about 4 -5 square metres ANY ONE ELSE in a deprived area got the same?
today that's Tuesday 10th I was at the "traffic jam" caused by the team of 4? in 2 vehicles parked on the corner of a mini roundabout having a break .. what a stupid place to park IQ MUST be zero, I pointed out that they had missed a bit by the bs14 club, about 2 foot from a patch they had done .. in a high pitcherd Irish accent came back the reply ... we did our hole the other is someone elses!!!! about a further 2 metres away the road is concrete!.. just how pathetic can that be £230 million to run a few buses from 3 fringe areas of Bristol supposed to be cheap and fast! what is cheap? a £1 or £2 .... parts of the route have already screwed up Bristol traffic ... a bloke on the tv Monday said if you want a safe quick transport network in Bristol you need to pull it all down and start again!
be warned BE WARNED... I am currently in a three way tussle with ZANUSSI, the boiler fitters and the boiler suppliers... Zanussi has shown to be the main fault at the moment, but what I was told and what is/ has happened verges on the same level as PPI .... MY current recommendation would be 2 do not get involved with any scheme with ZANUSSI [ washing machine- electricals company ] without challenging everything they say or what they tell you..... not really the boiler people suppliers or fitting co, although are making life hard ...........
The M4 Junction 16 roadworks. I might try and get a job working on that project - it’s a job for life!!!!
going back a few years I did a weekly run to Luxembourg air port, there was a 23km + section that needed upgrading a 2 and 3 lane carriageway completely re tarmac'd, double central reservation and barriers, obviously included the sign boards and everything Q1 DID IT TAKE 4 MONTHS OR SO Q2 DID IT TAKE 3 YEARS OR MORE [ typical of Bristol mayor projects and still less than similar M6 stretch works that have been in progress for almost 5 years ] Q3 DID IT TAKE 8 MONTHS OR SO Q 4 DID IT TAKE 18 MONTHS [ usual time to do a winters pothioles! ] Q5 WAS THE CONGESTION CAUSED MORNING RUSH HOUR / EVENING RUSH HOUR 50KM LONG AND TOOK 3+ HOURS? [ START OF SLOW TRAFFIC, THROUGH WORKS ] Q 6 WAS THE CONGESTION CAUSED IN RUSH HOUR ABOUT 25-30KM AND TOOK ABOUT 50 MINS Q7 WHY ARE FRENCH/BELGIAN/LUXEMBOURG WORKERS SO DIFFERENT
heres one for virgin customers . never use the landline nowadays so phoned the indian call centre who explained I would not save much as I was on a package... but I said I would cancel anyway... put me through to a nice lady in TEESIDE.... I always start with hello where are you? oh yes up by Middsbro and a bit of small talk wx etc … explained didn't use phone so might as well get rid ….. whats the basic broad band cost? really that is same as on web site so that will do... is that the cheapest? well I can do that and you get the phone for free ...loyalty bonus fixed till May next year … I then said had 100 mbps last year which didn't really need … 50 is fine ACTUALLY I can do 100 mbps for £2 less you are kidding, is 350 mbps £20 less!!!! NO, just the 100mbps loyalty bonus etc etc SO expecting to pay less, have no land line, and be 50mbps ..what a lovely result
