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Default Congestion and police apathy reduce a main trunk road into Harrogate to 2.1mph.


"Ed" > wrote in message
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On Jun 18, 10:11 am, Mike P > wrote:
> On 17 June, 20:55, wait and see > wrote:
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> > On 17 June, 17:36, Mike > wrote:

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> > > On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:56:37 +0100, GOM > wrote:
> > > >In article >, Mike says...

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> > > >> Single carriageway A661 Wetherby Road, Geest artic broken down on
> > > >> the
> > > >> inbound side.

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> > > >> Traffic takes an hour to cover the distance from the A658 bypass to
> > > >> the roundabout on the A59

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> > > >> Two police cars slowly crawl pass the scene, without any blue
> > > >> lights
> > > >> lit and do...

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> > > >> A B S O L U T E L Y F U C K A L L

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> > > >> ...resulting in the traffic coming out of town stopping just about
> > > >> anyone from getting in (yes I know they must be desperate to visit
> > > >> this ******** of a town)

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> > > >What were they supposed to do?

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> > > The visitors could go somewhere else, Basra or the Gaza Strip being
> > > much more attractive and with much more rapid traffic flow.

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> > > Or perhaps the North Yorkshire Police could arrange rapid recovery of
> > > the vehicle (apparently it's STILL there over six hours later) so as
> > > to restore two way traffic, or direct traffic around the obstruction
> > > taking regard of the near one way traffic flow on a set of lights
> > > close to the obstruction where even someone as dense as George Osborne
> > > MP would appreciate were cycling through multiple sequences for a
> > > traffic flow of nearly zero vehicles on the inbound direction and near
> > > normal flow in the other.

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> > > Beyond the obstruction normal traffic flows inbound were resumed.

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> > > North Yorkshire Police, as proved by the two Panda bound ****wits who
> > > crawled by the scene, are beyond any doubt a bunch of CRETINS.

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> > Police men being cretins..
> > I hardly think that would be true.
> > They were probably following strict procedure learnt in years of
> > extensive training!
> > To a mere impatient layman bystander, like yourself, this may have
> > been seen as dordelling.
> > But I am sure our heroes in blue sorted this out as fast and SAFELY as
> > possible.
> > There job is hard enough without a bunch of impatient horn tooting
> > morons making uninformed and stupid glib remarks.
> > Please think in future.

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> Is your post meant to be ironic, or does it just appear that way?
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I think dordelling is a much better way to spell dawdling.



critcher said...................
It's very Swiss, isn't it