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Skint_Catt

30-01-2009, 2:16 PM

Or particularly the timing of them? looked on my local Council site, but no mention of Highways or similar.

The timing on the traffic lights between my house and my work (22 miles) has been changed a week ago and has now turned my commute from 6 mins to up to 40mins because the traffic lights now only let 3/4 cars through from each direction! When the three industrial estates that I work on/near kick out it's utter chaos heading back into town and to the housing areas. I can't now go home for lunch (as I have done for 8 months) as by the time I get home (just the other side of the traffic lights) it's time to come back!

Just want to call/email someone to a) alert them to the problems and b) find out why they did it!

C xx

MORPH3US

30-01-2009, 2:20 PM

Nail_Lad

30-01-2009, 2:32 PM

Even if you do find out, good luck getting a sensible response from them....

BTW, I can cycle 2 miles in about 10 minutes, might have to get yourself a bike and cycle it. Save a packet and get fit... ;)

Arrive at work smelling like an old shoe and drenched (if it's been raining). Lock bike, realise battery for light is broken. Shower (if there is one there). Get breath back. Do day's work. Wrestle with bike lock. Remember battery for light broke. Cycle home with the wind and rain blowing in your face and no lights on. Get new linen trousers wet as you forgot waterproofs. Arrive home, knackered and cheesed off. Wish you had just driven in.

Skint_Catt

30-01-2009, 2:36 PM

It's not a bad idea Morph3us, but I'm not fit enough or safe enough on a bike at the moment and the dark unlit country lane from work to the traffic lights (1.75 miles) is deadly at this time of year. I will be walking it a couple of times a week in the spring - but then I can't go home or into town in my lunch hour. :confused:

Thanks Nail lad - there is that too! LOL And our shower has just been removed!

But I still want to find out who's responsible!

LittleMissAspie

30-01-2009, 2:43 PM

County Council.

I cycle two miles to work. I've never got drenched, it never rains very hard in this country. There are these things called coats though, I have one and it helps keep me dry. Also, two miles isn't enough to get sweaty so you don't need a shower.

Skint_Catt

30-01-2009, 2:50 PM

Look, I'm not asking for different methods of getting to work! If I could cycle, I would, but I'm not stable on a bike and I'm 5 stone overweight and not fit yet not that its ANY of your business! :mad:

Sometimes I need to go into town for work - I can't do that from out in the countryside without a car, sometimes I go to the supermarket after work before I go home - I can't get there if I don't have a car!

I just want to know who's responsible for a single set of bloody traffic lights!

Sirbendy

30-01-2009, 3:20 PM

chill out, for goodness sakes. It's a sensible suggestion, nothing more. 2 poxy miles? My missus walks that and a bit, rain or shine, down dark lanes and main roads every day to go to work.

Even I would contemplate cycling, and I have no balance, am lacking in lower body strength, and more.

A good set of lights, a good lock, a small toolkit and some sensible gear, and you'd lose the weight in no time, you'd be fit in no time, and you'd be there and back so much quicker and cheaper than being sat in a stationery car!

If you need to work in town or shop, take the car..but take it every day for a 2 mile stop-go trip? Stuff that for a lark.

I'm 5 miles from here, and I'd happily cycle in - IF it wasn't for the fact I have to go steeply down into a valley then back out to do it. If I tried it, I'd almost certainly cripple myself. I'm reasonably fit, but my legs are shot.

Besides, isn't getting a soaking, a bruised backside and out of breath the whole point of cycling? heh.

Skint_Catt

30-01-2009, 3:26 PM

Dear GOD what is it with cycling.

Mods please delete this thread. I'd get more sense from the local council!

MORPH3US

30-01-2009, 3:27 PM

@ skint catt....

I understand that you weren't looking for "alternative ways to get to work".

But MSE is about discussion....

you asked who to contact about traffic light timing, LittleMissAspie replied "County Council"... question answered, no more posts....

that would be a pretty boring chat forum...

The thread has now evolved slightly, but thats the way this place goes and you have your answer so no harm done.

hewhoisnotintheknow

30-01-2009, 3:35 PM

anyone who struggles with a bike lock should not be allowed to drive, in my opinion

Premier

30-01-2009, 4:15 PM

...The timing on the traffic lights between my house and my work (22 miles) has been changed a week ago and has now turned my commute from 6 mins to up to 40mins ...
22 miles in 6 minutes! :confused: :eek:

That's an average speed of 220mph!!!

I'm not sure what vehicle you've got, but at that speed I guess any traffic lights you encounter are the responsibilty of the airport owner :D

22miles in 40mins is still an average of over 30mph - not bad for a commute to and from work.

MX5huggy

30-01-2009, 4:32 PM

The OP has edited the OP it did say 2 which is why people wanted him to get on a bike.

Or particularly the timing of them? looked on my local Council site, but no mention of Highways or similar.

The timing on the traffic lights between my house and my work (2 miles) has been changed a week ago and has now turned my commute from 6 mins to up to 40mins because the traffic lights now only let 3/4 cars through from each direction! When the three industrial estates that I work on/near kick out it's utter chaos heading back into town and to the housing areas. I can't now go home for lunch (as I have done for 8 months) as by the time I get home (just the other side of the traffic lights) it's time to come back!

Just want to call/email someone to a) alert them to the problems and b) find out why they did it!

C xx

Premier

30-01-2009, 5:31 PM

MX5huggy

30-01-2009, 5:52 PM

Thanks MX5huggy. I missed that but can now see the OP edited the post at 3:27PM. - before I read & posted, but after most others had replied. Your explanation now makes me better understand the prior responses :)

You know, there often comes a time when someone should put the shovel down...I suspect that time has arrived for the OP :D

I think they are more used to the soft a squidgy world of the "Slimming World Support thread (http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1370389)"