Service vehicles in rush hour

Mr Pants! · I Karma Joined: 29 May 2004 Karma :

I think that the government should ban all services vehicles from the road between the hours of 7am - 9am and 5pm - 7pm!

Service vehicles being:

Dustbin lorries doing refuse collection
JCB's
Milk floats
Road sweeper lorries

I sat in a massive tailback for miles this morning, 100's of cars delayed! All due to a Dustbin lorry collecting rubbish! I mean why not wait until 9am, once the rush hour traffic has cleared? It really would not make much difference to their day and a huge difference to the already cluttered up roads!

I actually went as far as writing to the local Council about this, as suspected, I had no response.

We all have jobs to do I know, but I think a little common sense is needed here. The roads are constantly under scrutiny for ways to improve traffic problems, like walk your kids to school day and car sharing or taking public transport. But to then throw a vehicle that will stop and start or not pass 20mph in the middle of the road problems is utter madness.

There we go, I have finished. Shocked

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karen_moomin · World Chat Champion Joined: 11 Apr 2004 Karma :

You missed one out...

Cows crossing the road during the morning rush hour.

Every day at approx 8.20am, 100 cows cross my path from one field to another. It's the bloody A34!! You can imagine the effect this has on the traffic, and the cows walk so slow! Evil or Very Mad

Mr Pants! · I Karma Joined: 29 May 2004 Karma :

Seriously, write to the farmer! Threaten a complaint to the local authorities. He is a farmer, they are normally up at 4am, why can't he move his stinking cows then!?

Laughing

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carvell · Scuttler Joined: 05 Sep 2003 Karma :

Cows tend to go when they want!
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zaknafien · Joined: 25 Mar 2002 Karma :

I'd like to see you force a cow to go somewhere!
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mr jamez · World Chat Champion Joined: 04 Aug 2003 Karma :

Ste · Not Work Safe Joined: 01 Sep 2002 Karma :

Milk floats are not government vehicles, it's private companies which run them. Same with JCB's as anyone can rent one and do as they please with it (as long as they have a driving license Laughing

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They do have as much rights to use the roads as anyone else does, so it would make their jobs in those times if all other vehicles were banned. They don't actually cause that many problems, as dustbin lorries are generally going round residential places, JCB's where ever needed, milk floats again around residential places (so how is that a problem to people commuting to work? Confused

) and road sweepers are only driven around places when they are needed there, would you prefer if they just left whatever they need to clean off the road? As I'm sure you'd be one of the first to complain if the roads were not being kept clean enough and you had a crash because of it.

I don't think you find dustbin lorries in the middle of roads, you find them near where the bins which need emptying are! Or would you prefer that the rubbish was just all left there to stink?

Not surprised they didn't take the time to write back to you, they have proper stuff to do like working out ways of improving the traffic situation as opposed to writing letters explaining themselves. Thumbs Down

Mr Pants! · I Karma Joined: 29 May 2004 Karma :

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mchaggis · World Chat Champion Joined: 10 May 2004 Karma :

If it works for Harry Potter... Wink

G · The Voice of Reason Joined: 02 Feb 2002 Karma :

The way I try to see it is that if I'm in a car, it's my problem, it's just one of the sacrifices you have to make... if I was on a bike I could get past.