Let's line them all up and shoot them! (UK Roads)

Member Name: Leolover

Product:	UK Roads
Date:	21/10/02 (78 review reads)
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Advantages: Ha, ha!

Disadvantages: where do I start?

...By 'them' I mean everyone responsible for the current appalling state of the roads throughout this country, and particularly in London, where I live, where it's currently taking me two and a half hours to get into work when it should take one and a quarter.

My journey to work consists of a two mile bus jouney followed by a twenty minute train journey. The train journey is fine, even occasionally enjoyable, as it's one of the less congested routes and I rarely find myself without a seat. The bus journey, number 36 from Camberwell to Vauxhall, has degenerated over the past few months into an absolute nightmare.

First, there were roadworks at the busy junction between Camberwell and Brixton, which lasted three months and caused absolute mayhem. No sooner had they finished (with no discernable improvements on the junction) than roadworks popped up at the Oval AND Vauxhall Cross, and these made the Camberwell/Brixton mallarkey look like a walk in the park.

The temporary traffic lights they've erected do not work in sync even when they're switched on, which is rare, so there are jams at every exit, and more often than not NOTHING IS ACTUALLY BEING DONE on these work sites, so the poor commuter has to inch past rows and rows of pointless traffic cones, gritting their teeth and wanting to lynch somebody.

Apart from these two major areas of work, there are what seem like hundreds of 'mini roadworks' here, there and everywhere, what look like holes dug in the road for no reason then closed off with cones and wooden poles, which add to the problem by slowing drivers down and are, in my opinion, dangerous.

Travelling around the capital, it's obvious that this kind of chaos is going on everywhere. What is the government/TFL playing at? I'm absolutely certain that these 'roadworks' aren't necessary. Can it really be a ploy to make it look like congestion charges are working wh
en they're finally introduced? Will all the roadworks magically disappear when that happens, leaving Mr Livingstone free to claim that his silly little scheme works? Surely not, they can't think we're that stupid...?

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