Just heard on the local news that Essex County Council or police (sorry couldnt remember which one) are running Anti Congestion Patrols.
I can just imagine it, "sorry sir, you must pull into that field as if you carry on there will be congestion".
How else do they expect to control congestion?
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Its already happening in Manchester city centre apparantly. It might be things like telling off drivers for stopping in the middle of a junction when its on green (see my thread about junctions) that sort of thing. Stupid actions by drivers which bring everything to a halt.
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At last!
Furious red-faced coppers on foot vigorously gesturing to mimsers to GET A DAMN MOVE ON AND GO FORTH AND MULTIPLY OUT OF THE SODDING WAY... AND KEEP IT OVER NOT UNDER A SPEEDOMETER 30 unless pedestrians, cyclists or similar are waddling into your path, damn carphounds!
... I can't wait.
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Lud if I ever got in a car with you I think I would need a sick bag :).
I would imagine that these petrols will be like traffird wardens too but will tell cars dropping people off etc to get to move and have three points for stopping on those zigzags.
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if I ever got in a car with you I think I would need a sick bag :).
I really doubt it Rattolo. You would be amazed in the event by the extreme lack of drama. Like a fish in water as the revolutionaries used to say. No noise, there a bit sooner than you might expect, just a few muttered or shouted curses.
I look forward to the event.
My (rather longing I must admit) fantasy about old bill telling the traffic to get a move on is based on a provincial lorry driver's story about hitting Vauxhall cross in morning rush hour, feeling that with his load of sheep and never having been there before about 28mph seemed about right, and being furiously signalled to go faster by one of our finest traffic men... not many of those these days alas...
Ask yourself Rattle, how does congestion get diminished given a certain volume of traffic?
By making that traffic damn well wake up, that's how.
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I think it was His Tongueincheekedness himself, the Right Horrible JC, who proposed that contraflows, rather than having a lowered speed limit, should have a mandatory minimum speed limit of 100 mph.
No logjams then.......
;-)
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