Why Southampton can go f*ck itself

[swiss]

It was an effort of will just to censor the title.

Distance: 5.37 miles each way, for a total of 10.74 miles.

Time: 1 hour 28 minutes

Average speed: 7.1mph

Frustration factor: 9.85

Swearing volume: 11

Did the guy even have the item I drove over to collect? Of course not.

[DaiRees]

And I thought I had a bad trip today stuck in a traffic queue caused by a doddering old dear in a Toyota Aygo. 30 in a 60 zone for 7 miles then about 15 through town, complete stop by every parked car even though there was enough room to get a tank through there, wrong lanes, incorrect indication, she nearly got wiped out by a bus and 2 different lorries . She decided that she was in the wrong lane at a set of lights so indicated to change then sat there straddling the lanes holding up 2 lanes of traffic until the lights turned red again! Needless to say I was late arriving at that appointment . Really pisses me off, when they're that bad they really should take their license away.

Anyway, you win mate

[swiss]

*gracious bow*

Not to mention that the bloody camera wagon was out on the hill AGAIN. You're going down a modest slope, two lanes, no buildings either side, and for some reason the limit is 30. Go round the corner - oh! There's the camera wagon. What a surprise. What's that, four times in a week and a half?

Nice little earner, Rodney, nice little earner...

[steve_earwig]

Not much traffic jams here (20 cars, you call that a traffic jam?) although you get the odd tractor driving at about 10mph for miles with it's l/h indicator going, spraying mud everywhere with a massive queue of suicidal manics behind it.

My driving's getting slower and slower though, the amount of idiots on the road is preposterous. I nearly had a head-on earlier with some old bat who thought it was ok to come round a bend on the wrong side of the road so she wouldn't strain her arms pulling into her yard

[Welly]

f*cking BASTARD TRAFFIC !!!!

There I said it see.

[teamster1975]

That's why I use a bike for work!
You don't suffer from road rage do you Welly?

[mjb]

My 2 worst (in the last 2 years):

6 hours to do 60 miles from Stoke to Manchester. Damn triple fatality pileup on the M6

15 hours to do 16.5km (kilometres not miles) from the autobahn near Hamburg to the Wacken festival. You get to camp with your car there but there was rainfall a few days before so they were desperately trying to get straw on the ground but couldn't do it fast enough. Got a few hours kip in the jam though, had one passenger work the handbrake and another push when needed while I slept with my legs dangling out the window

[406silverhdi]

i blame ikea and that lack of ice rink

[highlander]

My daily drive home from work sucks.

I live 7.1 miles away, and it often takes more than an hour (worst was 2 hours).

My work is out at the Kirkhill Industrial Estate in Dyce, near Aberdeen Airport, and I live within a stones' throw of Pittodrie Stadium (I can see the stand from my living room window).

The biggest offending stretch of road runs from the police station in Dyce right down through Bucksburn up to the Haudagain Roundabout. Before and after that is plain sailing, but it's always a nose-to-tail crawl along that bit of road. Bloody annoying. But as a network engineer, I can't be without a car - sometimes I have to jump in my car and drive down to Montrose or Arbroath, or drive out to Dyce from home if there is a callout (faulty switch or router).

The big cause of all the traffic out here is that the bus "service" is bloody useless. FirstGroup have no competition at all, so they offer a crummy service on unreliable buses and charge through the nose for the "privilege". Before I became a network engineer, I was working on the IT service desk, and had no need for a car - so I rode First's buses for two years. Never again. The number of times I was late for work because the bus broke down, or just parked up at a bus stop while the driver read the paper and had a sandwich (took his break time in the middle of a route!!), it's any wonder I wasn't fired... Anyway, rant over

[Welly]

I must have one of the best runs to work....11 miles in 16 minutes, or, 11 miles in 13 minutes (that's the record, in the HDi). Not one traffic light or roundabout in sight

[steve_earwig]

Unemployed, beat that run

[Doggy]

1.5 hours to do the last half mile into Le Mans 2003
Outside temp. 39 degrees, no aircon.
Didn't taste the first two beers

[nutski]

Normally takes me about 30 mins to do 26 miles on an average day, after having a bad day with a server crashing at work and a twat in an MG on my bumper i got home in my current record of 17 mins