In today's Telegraph is an article about Traffic Stress Syndrome. It seems that 29% of drivers suffer from this condition due to being stuck in traffic. With most motorists going nowhere for 12 minutes every day, this causes drivers to become agressive and stressed. With suffers of TSS this can start within a couple of minutes.
Being held up in traffic does not worry me as there is nothing I can do about it. Do you suffer from TSS?
Full article at
www.telegraph.co.uk/health/main.jhtml?xml=/health/...l
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Roger
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No I don't, but I don't live inside the M25 and I don't use the M1, M6, or M62!
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Only when I'm in a jam that is stationary for so long that I wonder how long it will be before people (including myself) start running out of fuel. Especially if the jam is caused by snow.
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Only when I'm in a jam that is stationary for so long that I wonder how long it will be before people (including myself) start running out of fuel. Especially if the jam is caused by snow.
And extra so if it's a dual carriageway where you can't turn round and go back the way you've come.
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Look, I am fed up with telling you a million times, I dont not suffer from TSS and if you open that trap of yours one more time saying I do I am going to punch your lights out.
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RF - currently 1 Renault short of a family
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Sorry RF. I'll try and not do it again. ;-)
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If the jam is caused by snow, jump out and make snow angels. Play, have a laugh.
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Yes. I'm very bad for it. Even if I've only been waiting a few minutes I can get very wound up about it. I can't understand why all these proles are allowed to sit on *my* road and hold me up. It's selfish, it's irrational but I admit that I can get very stressed. It gets worse when I can see other drivers holding me up by breaking the rules such as sitting on box junctions etc.
It's half the reason I bought an automatic - to make sitting in stop-start traffic that bit easier and hopefully calm me down a bit.
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Loads of silly comments made by the usual culprits have been removed. I don't think anything of worth was deleted in the clean up. Next thing to go will be your accounts. You know who you are. DD
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I?m not surprised you get stressed E34kid if you work near Hammersmith Broadway. Worst roundabout in London made twice as bad overnight by adding a bus lane to all approach roads.
An horrific part of London to have to drive through that?ll probly get worse when congestion zone expands. Good luck mate!
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What amuses me is seeing people making a 3 or 5 point turn to escape a traffic queue only to find them waiting to emerge from a junction further on!
I never get very stressed about jams. I wonder if there's a sub-group of motoring enthusiasts who seek out the worst jams just to experience them so they can swap stories with other 'griddies'.
Cheers, SS
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I?m not surprised you get stressed E34kid if you work near Hammersmith Broadway. Worst roundabout in London made twice as bad overnight by adding a bus lane to all approach roads. An horrific part of London to have to drive through that?ll probly get worse when congestion zone expands. Good luck mate!
Heh - I rarely even attempt to drive around there. Absolutely shocking. I used to have great fun cycling around it though - you can make great progress on a bike around there.
However, I live only a mile or two down the road from the Hangar Lane gyratory (roundabout with a big ego) which is shocking, made worse by counterintuitive roadmarkings taking people into all the wrong lanes for where they want to go. The closest thing you can find in the UK to the Arc De Triomphe experience on Top Gear this week.
I've also found that driving on a Saturday is impossible in London. I tried going to Holloway to pick up a friend this weekend and I spent half an hour just trying to get around Archway roundabout. I felt my blood boiling then.
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I do suffer from TSS when I find that the jam I have been involved in was due to nothing more than rubbernecking at the policeman calmly noting down details of a minor shunt on the other side of the motorway, adding half an hour to my journey for no good reason (as happened yesterday morning). Or, traffic coming to the end of a motorway at home time, slowing down to an average 20 mph instead of the usual congested-but-moving 40, due to rubbish collectors in high visibility jackets several feet to the left of the hard shoulder, that everyone seemed to assume was plod with a speed detector. They do tend not to move around so much when they want to catch you ... Cue lots of standing on the brakes causing everyone else to do the same. Oh and every time I drop back to leave a gap so that I have a nice crawling distance to avoid this kind of behaviour, someone drives into this space causing me to have to brake suddenly. That bit of fun added 40 minutes to my trip in the evening, giving me a 13-hour day in total.
What irritates is the fact that this kind of holdup is caused by sheep-like behaviour and/or over-reacting to a non-existent "threat", plus an apparent lack of awareness of their actual speed. Mutter, mumble, where's my rocket launcher, etc.
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Vroom, vroom - mmm, doughnuts ...
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