bigsinky

had to take my car to a painter to get my bumpers resprayed. Now in Belfast our traffic is never really too bad. the motorway is about a mile from my house. left home at 8.15 and got into work at 10.10. Holy ****, how do people do this everyday. i was just like every other lemming. power and speed certainly don't help when you are stuck up someones ar$e for an hour. Now i know this was a one off but and i don't really know what a traffic jam is. anyone else have to sit in traffic for x hours to get to work. Any M25 drivers out there with horror stories.

cheers

sinky

bigsinky

sorry about that mods. really wasn't sure what forum to put this in, but to offer an excuse, i was in a scooby in the traffic jam.

suprabeast

sat on the A2 once for 5 hours at the same point... got rather bored

fast bloke

you been on the M1 from Lisburn in during rush hour recently. 20 million quid to create an extra lane that doesn't go anywhere.

pbee

My wife this morning was stuck between two exits on the a14 left house at 7:40 got to work at 10:50 its 8 miles !!!!!!.

Thank good she was in the audi and not the scoob shudder to think of the what that would do to the clutch

bigsinky

tell me about it. twin plate was an absolute ba$tid this morning. stalled the car 3 times

cheers

sinky

urban

iTrader: (1)

Sinky,

Ever tried to get through Dublin during rush hour ?

Absolutely mad, I was down there last week, and it took me 1.45 hours to get form the Hotel to the place I was working in. The distance is about 3/4 of a mile at most!
That was on the outskirts of the city centre too!

Shaun

Jay m A

iTrader: (2)

You should try Rouen, France at 5pm on a Friday with a convoy of 3 getting lost trying to find the A13 to CenterParcs - with a screaming kid in the back, joy!

bigsinky

looks like i got off light then chaps. i shall never complain about traffic jams again. my poor clutch is gonna need re-lined after this morning (well mabe a slight hyperbole) but it certainly did it no good.

cheers

sinky

hail-hail

Remember last year when all the snow fell at once and the country ground to a hault, well it took me a total of 12 hours to do a 45 min journey, including 2.5 hours to get through the Hatfield tunnel!!!

Come to think of it I didn't actually manage to drive home, ended up parking up at a train station and doing the last 6 or so miles on the train drinking minature whiskeys that a kind off duty driver had shared

scoob_babe

well, you beat me there hail-hail - when it snowed, it took me 3 hours to get from the centre of Milton Keynes to the M1!

Puff The Magic Wagon!

iTrader: (2)

Don't start me on "Motorway Jams I Have Experienced"

But...

I remember when Concorde visited Belfast International (1982?) & being stuck in one big f-off traffic-jam for 2 hours