Quiet Roads?

-spider-
-spider- Posts: 2,548
edited June 2009 in Commuting chat
The run in was quieter than usual this morning. I was wondering if people weren't travelling because of the tube strike.

Strange though - this is Inverness!
-Spider-

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  • Gazzaputt
    Gazzaputt Posts: 3,227
    Was quiet until Old Kent Road. SCR was in full swing especially with tube refugees trying their luck.

    London Bridge and Borough High Street were hell and it stayed like that until I arrived at work in Moorgate.
  • Cafewanda
    Cafewanda Posts: 2,788
    I walked to Tooley Street from Borough High St coz of the traffic. I knew I should have left home earlier. Hopefully tomorrow will be better :roll:
  • biondino
    biondino Posts: 5,990
    Today and yesterday are the nearest I've come to experiencing gridlock on a bike. Not other bikes - I commute too late for that - but so many cars squeezing into small roads. Not fun at all. AND I got overtaken by maybe a dozen riders, ALL of whom were slower than me, simply because of the conditions. Grrr.
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  • artaxerxes
    artaxerxes Posts: 612
    Was quiet until Old Kent Road. SCR was in full swing especially with tube refugees trying their luck.

    Does anyone do SCR on the A200 (Tooley St -> Jamaica Road -> Evelyn St)? Its a lot narrower than the A2 though. There was plenty of traffic on the A200 but I didn't think it was any more than a normal day.
  • simon_ramsey
    simon_ramsey Posts: 116
    Nobody SCR's on the A200 (Tooley St -> Jamaica Road -> Evelyn St)? Remember SCR is in your head :wink:
  • artaxerxes
    artaxerxes Posts: 612
    I see, have I just broken the first rule of SCR? :D
  • Riatsala
    Riatsala Posts: 44
    I do that route in the evenings circa 18:50 but there doesn't seem to be many regular faces. The un-official start of the non-race is the Tower Bridge junction. Say hi if you see a black/white/grey Giant 8)
  • artaxerxes
    artaxerxes Posts: 612
    I'm usually home by that time, or passing through the Lewisham area.

    Actually I always see bicycles parked round the pub by that junction at Tower Bridge. Is it some sort of bike messenger hangout?
  • il_principe
    il_principe Posts: 9,155
    biondino wrote:
    I got overtaken by maybe a dozen riders, ALL of whom were slower than me, simply because of the conditions. Grrr.

    Does not compute!
  • biondino
    biondino Posts: 5,990
    Getting stuck filtering and not RLJing, for the most part. The gridlock I referred to above was when I too was unable to move, and it happened more than I'm used to!
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  • mountainroadie
    mountainroadie Posts: 244
    SOMEWHERE IN FIFE

    ahh nice quiet roads
    birds singing
    t-shirt on my commute today
    bikes running like a dream niiiiiice :D

    MEANWHILE SOMEWHERE IN LONDON :evil: :twisted: :evil: :x :x :cry:
  • -spider-
    -spider- Posts: 2,548
    The way home was quiet too! Once I left the city (lol, Inverness a city? :lol: ), once I left the city and crossed the bridge to the Black Isle it was a glorious run home. Sun shining, red kites overhaed, quiet roads - nearly stopped at the pub before I got home!
    -Spider-
  • Stone Glider
    Stone Glider Posts: 1,227
    @Spider I was told, in the Soviet Union, that once the population was over 100,000 you were entitled to an underground system 8) Riga petitioned to be exempt from this as it would knock down too many buildings.

    But that is my definition of a city. St Davids and St Asaph need not apply.
    The older I get the faster I was
  • -spider-
    -spider- Posts: 2,548
    Well that rules out Inversneckie then - no underground system here. Well maybe an underground culture - which has been added to by this weekends 'Rock Ness' festival.

    There were people camping (well sleeping) in strange places on the way in this morning - looked like festival go-ers as many hadn't a clue where or how to put a tent up. It's only a ten mile walk from Inverness to the festival site. Hope it stays dry.
    -Spider-

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