A bit of traffic

This afternoon through Stourport caused, it appears, by the delightful combination of Sheer Volume Of Traffic (SVOT) and Sheer Volume Of Pedestrians (SVOP). With the crossings having extended timings and going on and off almost constantly the extra traffic through the town led to stop-start behaviour mostly of the stop variety.

Not helped of course by the idiots on the road themselves. A couple of cars decided to overtake the queue leading to the OGL island on Worcester Road despite the fact they could clearly see there were cars coming the other way. Apparently shocked at cars driving towards them they tried to barge into the stationary queue to little avail as someone got honked off at them being their in the first place and stayed resolutely in place in the one lane.

Mitton Street was surprisingly clear except for the car parked outside the mower place which buggered up all the traffic trying to get into Vale Road what with the traffic trying to get into Lion Hill all up that lane. York Street only had one vehicle parked on the right sadly it was right next to the crossing and opposite the bus-stop; see we can't get past a stopped bus when you park directly opposite it.

Amazingly no cars parked outside Drinker's World opposite the car-parking bays that shut-off half of that lane, but still plenty of people who can't work out that the area in front of the Crown is a road and stand there gormlessly trying to cross over to the Bridge Inn because there isn't a crossing point under the bridge and they can't be arsed to walk up to the crossing while at the same time blocking vehicles trying to access the car-park.

Only five cars parked on the double yellow, no loading at these times lines at the right-hand side of High Street, with just the one parked opposite the recessed bus-stop and that a car rather than truck, so bonus there.

Oh and just one elderly couple trying to cross at that exact same blind corner that has two tactile crossings at each end of its short length.

As per usual once you got out of the town at either end everything cleared up. Heh and councillors wonder why everyone jumps to 40mph on Vale Road or Dunley Road.

Anyway you know same old same old.