Well, let’s kick this thing off with a bit of a rant, shall we?
Something that has been driving me absolutely barmy for a long time now, but which just seems to be getting worse: traffic.
This past week has been absolutely horrendous for me on the roads.
And by ‘roads’ I mean the M1 motorway.
Yes, I’m still having to drive my daughter to Watford each morning for work – more on that in a later post, probably – and quite often we get delayed due to an accident on the motorway.
But, this past week we have been delayed EVERY SINGLE BLOODY DAY due to accidents. Every day.
And trying to take alternative routes is pointless, because everybody else does exactly the same and the smaller roads just don’t have the capacity for that amount of traffic.
I have to feel sorry for the good people of Harpenden though: whenever there is a hold-up on the M1, the amount of traffic on Harpenden High Street increases ten-fold, as we all try to crawl our way further south and pick up the motorway a bit futher down.
Now, Friday’s tend to have less traffic and the motorway is usually quite a reasonable journey for us, but last Friday, it was horrendous! Again. Another bloody accident.
Not only that, but there was also an accident on the way home, which added another forty minutes to my journey.
Why do we have so many accidents on our roads? Why can’t people just learn to drive properly? I do wonder how many of these accidents are caused by people talking (or worse) on their phones whilst driving because, I see this happening every day.
And, driving too fast and too close to the car in front. Why is it, that when some people get behind the steering wheel – and I’m talking about the steering wheels of German cars in the main, here – they suddenly think they have Lewis Hamilton-like driving skills?
Which they don’t.
There is a campaign for the motorway speed limit to be raised to 80MPH. Eighty!
Good lord, please, no! It’ll only make it worse. There will be even more accidents.
How many millions of man-hours are lost each week, by us sitting in traffic, going nowhere?
How many accidents are there on the motorways each week? How many fatalities?
Although it’s a pain, in one respect, I don’t mind driving my daughter to work each day, as once she has passed her test, she will be on the motorway herself, driving alongside all those idiots.
And that thought fills me with dread.