Anyone Else Dreading The Traffic next Week?

Siogfinsceal

The last 2 weeks have been bliss. I work 20 mins drive away from my house yet have to leave before 8 to get there at 9 and even at that im drivin gup a back road to avoid the mess that is the Naas Dualler. the last 2 weeks Ive been able to get to work in no time at all.
Next week the traffic will be dreadful again all because mummys little precious must be driven to school rather than walk 5 minutes up the road. Is it any wonder that so many kids are overweight these days - fat little overindulged creatures being driven up to school so mammy can give her oversized 4*4 an outing. god forbid kids should walk anywhere its mad!

spockety

It's not only the kids, don't forget all the builders are off work as well and will be back next week.

Cianos

I dont drive myself but that is certainly a big difference to your commute:mad:

There should be a ban on one ma+one child vehicles

Font22

dreading it big time. driving to college was so easy for me this week! i have to drive from malahide to UCD and its been so quick recently!

crosstownk

I live nextdoor to a school and can't believe how many kids get dropped off - it's a secondary school. The whole road will be chocker-blocked on Monday. Roll on June.

Dyr

hmmm...people who clog up the roads driving cars complain about other people who clog up the roads driving cars, get on the bus/dart/luas/acoustic bike or STFU you no social responsibility having western civilisation declining petrol junkies! :mad:

Siogfinsceal

it will be crazy allright none of them seem to share lifts anymore. rathcoole is a nightmare in the morning as is Naas theres not enough parking outside the schools so theres cars everywhere im actually afraid to go near rathcoole cos kids r jumping out in front of ya all over the place its scary!

BTW bambi ive no problem with anyone driving anywhere to qork college etc my post is about parents who drive there kids to school when they are within walking distance of the school already. Id walk to work if I was 5 mins away. Im talking about the fact that theres always concerns in the paper etc about obesity in kids and its no wonder when their parents are driving them 2 minutes up the road

Tobias Greeshman

Really dreading the thoughts of it from next Monday, the roads have been so quiet recently. You can actually get to where you want to go within a reasonable amount of time. I live beside a school and if I don't leave before 8:30 it'll take a good 45 minutes to get to work that would otherwise be 10 minutes drive at most. Stupid fecking mothers just abandoning their cars on the road causing an obstruction so that their little bundle of hell can get to school on time.

mountainyman

Siogfinsceal wrote:

I work 20 mins drive away from my house yet have to leave before 8 to get there at 9 ...

So you work over an hours drive away. Your choice.

Siogfinsceal wrote:

Next week the traffic will be dreadful again all because mummys little precious must be driven to school rather than walk 5 minutes up the road.

It is really all those tards sitting in cars on their own, at least when people drop their kids to school there is more than one person in the god damned car.

Siogfinsceal wrote:

Is it any wonder that so many kids are overweight these days - fat little overindulged creatures being driven up to school so mammy can give her oversized 4*4 an outing. god forbid kids should walk anywhere its mad!

In fairness thanks to all the erseholes bombing around back roads at 110 KM per hour it has become too dangerous to let kids walk and far fewer kids are overweight than adults.
Get a motorbike.

ABSOLUTELY NO SYMPATHY

MW

Dyr

Siogfinsceal wrote:

BTW bambi ive no problem with anyone driving anywhere to qork college etc my post is about parents who drive there kids to school when they are within walking distance of the school already. Id walk to work if I was 5 mins away. Im talking about the fact that theres always concerns in the paper etc about obesity in kids and its no wonder when their parents are driving them 2 minutes up the road

technically they're two people cars and as such are more socially responsible then those driver only cars that take up most of our roads Im just pointing out that people could reasonably view you (and your fellow feckless rogues) in the same light you view mammys who drive their little nippers to school

Anyway you said you were 20 mins drive away from work, thats bikeable and walkable

oneweb

Won't bother me at all, still gonna get the train

It was one of the mid-term breaks that finally made me realise a 20 minute walk was worth getting the train. Deadly, the bus CAN get into town in 40 minutes. Bugger, guess who couldn't put up with a 90 minute commute once he'd tasted the sweetness of shorter trip times!

Just stop these spoilt brats going to school. That'd teach 'em

spockety

Here's an idea.. School should start at 10.30 AM, not 9 AM.

Siogfinsceal

wasnt asking for your sympathy just making an observation get over it. If I want to drive to work my perogative. If those mothers wanna drive their sprogs to school its their perogative fair play I just think its mad to drive a kid to school when they live a few minutes away in an area with safe pathways and the kid could very easily walk. thats the joy of opinions though - we are all entitled to one.

crosstownk

spockety wrote:

Here's an idea.. School should start at 10.30 AM, not 9 AM.

What if both parents start work at 9am? Whose going to look after the children at home?

Siogfinsceal

Bambi wrote:

technically they're two people cars and as such are more socially responsible then those driver only cars that take up most of our roads Im just pointing out that people could reasonably view you (and your fellow feckless rogues) in the same light you view mammys who drive their little nippers to school

Anyway you said you were 20 mins drive away from work, thats bikeable and walkable

20mins drive- would never walk that

Dyr

spockety wrote:

Here's an idea.. School should start at 10.30 AM, not 9 AM.

No way, it should start at 7 am, for two reasons

1) it will get kids into the habit of waking up in the early hours of morning. thus preparing them for working in an ireland of the future where you have to start commuting after dinner on sunday for work on monday

2) teachers have it far too fecking handy, lets punish them a bit

ferdi

i cylce and the roads are so quiet i've cut 10mins+ of my cylce time into college.

Repli

Ah.. WAs wondering why I wasn't late for work every day the past 2 weeks

mountainyman

Siogfinsceal wrote:

...just making an observation get over it...

Fair enough; why not get elected president and then they'll clear the roads for you. The simplest solution.

Siogfinsceal wrote:

...I just think its mad to drive a kid to school when they live a few minutes away in an area with safe pathways ...

I think it is mad that people move to areas where they have to drive their kids to school.

MW

pontovic

I have to get up at six every morning and I'm out the door at ten past to get to Citywest from Howth. Im in work for 7 in the morning but the strange thing is the roads for me seem clearer driving on the m50 at six this week than they have in previous weeks. Why is this ? The kids aren't in school until a couple of hours later at least.

With the looming m50 upgrade and the trucks filling up the m50 when the port tunnel opens, Ill be glad to be finishing up where I work in Citywest in June. I won't miss the commute at all. I dont envy people who have to do it.

Sure I could move out to Clondalkin or Tallaght to be nearer to work, but I dont want to live in these areas of Dublin, away from everyone I know.

ciaran76

pontovic wrote:

I have to get up at six every morning and I'm out the door at ten past to get to Citywest from Howth. Im in work for 7 in the morning but the strange thing is the roads for me seem clearer driving on the m50 at six this week than they have in previous weeks. Why is this ? The kids aren't in school until a couple of hours later at least.

Because most builders are off too so less trucks delivering good to building sites etc etc.

johnp

mountainyman wrote:

I think it is mad that people move to areas where they have to drive their kids to school.
MW

So what you're saying is that everyone should live within walking distance of their school?

mountainyman

johnp wrote:

So what you're saying is that everyone should live within walking distance of their school?

I think that people should live in communities where everything is walking distance; most definitely including school.

Garibaldi

I've come to realise that the only way to get people to cycle/walk to work (from their house that is, entirely by their own choice, just around the corner) is to use up all the fossil fuel as quickly as possible. So, I'm buying one of these:

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Bambi wrote:

hmmm...people who clog up the roads driving cars complain about other people who clog up the roads driving cars, get on the bus/dart/luas/acoustic bike or STFU you no social responsibility having western civilisation declining petrol junkies! :mad:

Hear, Hear - it's just like listening to those Muppets on the radio every European car free day complaining about how bad their car commute was that morning.

CoolGuy2006

Bambi wrote:

hmmm...people who clog up the roads driving cars complain about other people who clog up the roads driving cars, get on the bus/dart/luas/acoustic bike or STFU you no social responsibility having western civilisation declining petrol junkies! :mad:

agreed. the amount of cars that pass through town with just one passenger is just as stupid.

Terry

Siogfinsceal wrote:

The last 2 weeks have been bliss. I work 20 mins drive away from my house yet have to leave before 8 to get there at 9 and even at that im drivin gup a back road to avoid the mess that is the Naas Dualler. the last 2 weeks Ive been able to get to work in no time at all.
Next week the traffic will be dreadful again all because mummys little precious must be driven to school rather than walk 5 minutes up the road. Is it any wonder that so many kids are overweight these days - fat little overindulged creatures being driven up to school so mammy can give her oversized 4*4 an outing. god forbid kids should walk anywhere its mad!

my area covers about 2 square kilometres, yet i still see children being driven to school by their parents and the school is right in the middle. it's a joke. i think it has more to do with the laziness of the parents though. they drive the kids to school and hit the shops while they're out. saves them making two trips.

RasTa

Siogfinsceal wrote:

Is it any wonder that so many kids are overweight these days - fat little overindulged creatures being driven up to school so mammy can give her oversized 4*4 an outing. god forbid kids should walk anywhere its mad!

Why dont you cycle then, fatty

Julesie

pontovic wrote:

I have to get up at six every morning and I'm out the door at ten past to get to Citywest from Howth. Im in work for 7 in the morning but the strange thing is the roads for me seem clearer driving on the m50 at six this week than they have in previous weeks. Why is this ? The kids aren't in school until a couple of hours later at least.

I think when the kids are off school a lot of the parents take matching holidays from work so we get the combined effect of no school drop offs and alot let workers travelling to work.

johnp

mountainyman wrote:

I think that people should live in communities where everything is walking distance; most definitely including school.

Everything? That's a fairly utopian solution. Do you think it could happen?
I don't.

HelterSkelter

mountainyman wrote:

I think that people should live in communities where everything is walking distance; most definitely including school.

So the houses are €500,000+ in the area I work in. I can't afford a house in this area. Do you suggest I jack in my current job and get a job in the area I live in then? You are living in dreamland.

pclancy

When I worked in Ballymount I had an hour and a half crawl from Maynooth to work in the dreaded lucan road. When the schools were off the commute shrank to about 30 minutes! I could never understood how it affected the entire road network so much. Government should get off its arse and buy a fleet of schoolbusses for everyone instead of just the country kids. 1 bus would replace 50 cars?

mountainyman

HelterSkelter wrote:

So the houses are €500,000+ in the area I work in. I can't afford a house in this area. Do you suggest I jack in my current job and get a job in the area I live in then? You are living in dreamland.

Work to change the situation, why not ask for more.

If we all work together we have the power to chaneg society.

MW

thelordofcheese

Siogfinsceal wrote:

said some things

to answer your question, i'm not dreading it, not in the slightest.
i walk to work [a good 40-45 mins walk each way], or cycle if i'm in a rush.

I kinda pitty people stuck in traffic, but when it's pissing rain i'd almost trade the ability to get to where i'm going in a reasonable time for the warmth and dryness of a car.

HelterSkelter

mountainyman wrote:

Work to change the situation, why not ask for more.

If we all work together we have the power to chaneg society.

MW

Ha, you really are taking the piss. Later dude :rolleyes:

vector

crosstownk wrote:

I live nextdoor to a school and can't believe how many kids get dropped off - it's a secondary school. The whole road will be chocker-blocked on Monday. Roll on June.

While I'd like to jump on the bandwagon I feel it necessary to point out the differences between children being driven TO and FROM school.

Being driven TO at circa 08.30 is understandable as parents might happen to pass the school on their way to work.

But being driven FROM school at 16.00 is inexcusable, unless a student lives miles and miles from school.

blu_sonic

Buy the kids bikes, excersise and no cars, just maga death toll, i can live with that, lol

Creamy Goodness

well a 20 minute drive will get me to wicklow - from bray - which is aprrox. 18 miles, i'd like to see someone/thing walk that on a daily commute.

myself i'm dredding next monday for a different reason. i'm back at college and have to go back to using public transport, there's just something not appealing about being packed in like a sardine on a dart with the air conditioning on hot and the people beside windows are too scared to open them.

curiosity

Yea, twas nice having a bit of extra leeway each morning over the school hols. 52km commute to Cork thru Mitchelstown and Fermoy. Thankfully the former is getting a relief road and the latter a bypass (tolled:mad: ) Work fast builder Bob:). Even the amount of parents who took time off work helped. Loads of parking spaces at work for me when I careen thru the gate @ 9:58.

Oh well, just have to steel myself for getting out the door 20 mins earlier next Monday, otherwise I'll blow a gasket when I hit the tailback in Fermoy.

Utopia Parkway

Siogfinsceal wrote:

The last 2 weeks have been bliss. I work 20 mins drive away from my house yet have to leave before 8 to get there at 9 and even at that im drivin gup a back road to avoid the mess that is the Naas Dualler. the last 2 weeks Ive been able to get to work in no time at all.
Next week the traffic will be dreadful again all because mummys little precious must be driven to school rather than walk 5 minutes up the road. Is it any wonder that so many kids are overweight these days - fat little overindulged creatures being driven up to school so mammy can give her oversized 4*4 an outing. god forbid kids should walk anywhere its mad!

Testify.

The last 2 weeks have been fantastic.

Next week I fully expect thousands of mummies to be out in force driving their rugrats to school in glorified armoured personal carriers.

Dizzyblabla

curiosity wrote:

Yea, twas nice having a bit of extra leeway each morning over the school hols. 52km commute to Cork thru Mitchelstown and Fermoy. Thankfully the former is getting a relief road and the latter a bypass (tolled:mad: ) Work fast builder Bob:). Even the amount of parents who took time off work helped. Loads of parking spaces at work for me when I careen thru the gate @ 9:58.

Oh well, just have to steel myself for getting out the door 20 mins earlier next Monday, otherwise I'll blow a gasket when I hit the tailback in Fermoy.

oh my god, Fermoy is just the worst place to drive through at the moment, I drove through it Wednesday and back down to Cork on Thursday, took about 35 minutes to get through it on the way, and about 25 on the way back.. that's not good, I'm looking forward to that bypass, even if I do have to pay for it! with the time I'll save, I'll probably make the same saving on petrol!

curiosity

Dizzyblabla wrote:

oh my god, Fermoy is just the worst place to drive through at the moment, I drove through it Wednesday and back down to Cork on Thursday, took about 35 minutes to get through it on the way, and about 25 on the way back.. that's not good, I'm looking forward to that bypass, even if I do have to pay for it! with the time I'll save, I'll probably make the same saving on petrol!

10 times a week grrrrr. Btw, I have nothing against parents dropping their kids to school. Life is stressful enough for working parents with young kids as it is.

Dizzyblabla

with the wierdo's that are around these days, I wouldn't blame parents for making sure their kids got to school ok... although I remember walking to school rain hail or snow! (not barefoot though! heh heh!)