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What happened during the three hours leading up to the rush hour?
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They have cars in Hull now?
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John Prescott is the deputy prime minister from Hell.... - I mean Hull - and we all know how many Jaguars he has don't we.
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I think they will look down at the wrong end of the telescope and look at the effect rather than the cause. I can see the investigation looking at why the roads blocked up so quickly, why there were no alternative routes etc rather than why it took 5 hours to clear the scene!
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Step 1 - build nice new road, taking traffic away from residential areas.
Step 2 - take two previous routes from the outside world into Hull and reduce from two lanes each way onto single lane each way with pedestrian islands and parking.
Step 3 - give planning permission for large supermarkets on these roads.
Step 4 - move out of Hull and watch the chaos when something happens to step 1.
What was noticable was the knock-on effects of that single accident - traffic jams miles and miles away.
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Judging by the allegations being made about a certain member of Hull's ruling classes on national news programmes today, traffic jams are not the only worries facing the area at the moment.
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There has been trouble brewing in that quarter for decades. Hull is a very closed, isolated place that has been opened up to proper scrutiny only in the past few years, largely because of the quasi-privatisation of the telephone company, but also because of local government reform. It won't be pretty.
As for the roads. Does anyone actually drive into Hull? If my school chums are anything to go by most people head westward as soon as they can.
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It was all staged by the Police just to annoy motorist!!!
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Well, GMP managed it again yesterday. Vehicle fire at 1300 hours on the M60, between the point where the M602, M62 and M61 all join the M60.
Come rush hour, 5 hours later, the 4 lane motorway was still down to 1 lane, causing chaos on all the motorways I just mentioned, and the local A/B roads. This time I was unfortunate to be caught in it, and a usual 20 minute journey took 2 hours.
Personally I think that the rules that the police have to work to are a conspiracy from local and central govt to force us all onto the trains!!
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Of course, nothing to do with the road having to be resurfaced.
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Well mlc, on passing by there appeared to be no damage to the road at all, and the vehicle was on a grass verge, not even on the carriage way. the hard shoulder and lane 1 had sand on them, but lanes 2 and 3 didn't, yet were still closed off.
Oh, and there wasn't a soul around doing any work at all, copper or otherwise, as I passed by at 1815.
So no, nothing at all to do with having to resurface the road.
I mean, Friday night rush hour is murder on that stretch as it is, but to reduce 4 lanes to 1 is madness.
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I thought of you yesterday morning when I attended a fatal accident. The fatality was lying at my feet when a man arrived and demanded we keep the road open because it would affect entry into his exhibition. Perhaps we should have swept him into the ditch!
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