Half term - roads

Landed back at stansted at 5pm, out by 5.30 and expecting a nightmare as I had to get half way around the M25.

Was lovely. Barely any traffic!! It was the same traffic levels as I see at about 10pm normally!
 
Driving to work is exactly the same for me but when I am at work there is a massive difference, normally there are 30 people in the office, this week there are 15, which makes my job much easier and much more pleasant.
 
Makes it worse living in the Lake District, idiot holiday makers with no common sense.
 
The only thing is with people asking what can be done to stop parents taking their children to school in cars is exactly what more right do you have to be driving to work?

If parents should be using public transport, walking or buses to send the kids to school, why shouldn't you do the same? Rather than driving?

I'm just playing devils advocate, there is too much congestion on the roads during rush hours and that is unlikely to change unless the cost of car ownership gets much tougher.
 
soundood said:
yes your correct, and we can moan all we want, but we need a solution :cool:

and here it is, it is so simple, you will tear your eyes out in a eureka moment.

you and I, book our holidays with our Boss/self/Manager

our mrs, book their holidays with their Boss/Self/Manager

but we are governed by what time little johnny can have off school, therefore we must adhere to a group Off/On holiday scenario.

the solution?

little johny must have the option to book time off too, say 3 weeks a year, the schools behind this and helping in the catch up of lessons.

then we all stagger our holidays through the year....simples
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I always thought that was the way to go.. But the teachers will be moaning that they have different children at different points in the curriculam and they cannot plan tests for everyone etc.. Oh and then you will have the likes of centerparks, butlins, thompsons etc all moaning saying that they are struggling because they cant take the mick and charge exortionate rates in school holiday periods like they do at the moment. :rolleyes:
 
Man, I love half term and summer holiday period. My drive to work is so much more pleasant. One primary school in particular sees all the parents' cars completely block off the left-hand lane, making for some iffy zig-zagging when people driving up/down that road don't feel like waiting for anyone else in the morning.

Once you're past that one, there's then a junction leading onto a large main road that unless it's the holidays is absolutely crawling. Can take 10 minutes of creeping to get to the end but in the holiday period it's almost completely clear. Bliss.
 
Think most schools must've been on half term last week as my commute to work only took 40 minutes on average, compared to the usual 55 minutes in term time. Usually where I have to queue up there was nothing, just casually cruised up to the roundabout where the traffic normally ends, it was bliss.

I've got this week off so both me and the car get two weeks away from the traffic :p
 
Takes me 30 mins now instead of the usual 1 hour to work :cool:

Would be better if the school hours were changed... Kids normally go to school between 8.30-3.30 right? Why can't the timings be changed to earlier or later?
 
MisChief said:
Takes me 30 mins now instead of the usual 1 hour to work :cool:

Would be better if the school hours were changed... Kids normally go to school between 8.30-3.30 right? Why can't the timings be changed to earlier or later?
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Because it's not just the lack of school traffic that means things are easier in half term?
 
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