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Brentford High St. Traffic

What on earth is going on with Brentford High St. traffic?? I was sitting in a queue yesterday afternoon coming from Hounslow for 35 minutes.  Once I passed the roadworks there was hardly any traffic on the roads.  It's been like this for weeks but you never see anyone working there.

Juliet Hogg ● 2d15 Comments

Too much pent up road range in not getting where you want to get safely and in time can give you mental health problems.Chill out.  Today the sun's shining and the shops are selling raincoats in their sales so you can be prepared for the next downpour.  Much more fun than being stuck in a car in traffic.

Philippa Bond ● 1m

>while car drivers have all the pollution filtered as they breathe in beautifully cleaned air.I mean, this is just nonsense, but fill your boots.Some very expensive cars can be good at this I guess, but only for short periods of time, you can talk to apollo 13 astronauts about what it's like being stuck in an airtight place with your own CO2.

Paul James ● 1h

Yes,  the roads are dangerous for cyclists in cities and in rural areas. Have you not heard about fatalities and serious injuries caused to cyclists on London roads.  You need to do some research on how dangerous cycling is. Hence responsible parents won’t let their children cycle to school. And yes, cyclists on London roads are breathing in toxic exhaust fumes and particulates every time they cycle while car drivers have all the pollution filtered as they breathe in beautifully cleaned air. It’s wonderful. Cyclists also suffer incredibly high levels of noise pollution which is bad for mental health.

Steve Taylor ● 1h

Ah, the old smoking analogy. Nobody believes that anymore Paul, much like traffic evaporation or that millions of people in London will suddenly start cycling everywhere all the time.Eventually people on this forum will tire of your incessant bleating as they did on the Ealing site.

Simon Hayes ● 2h

>dangerous roads....Pardon?

Paul James ● 2h

>rather than enjoy the comfort of driving in pollution free, climate controlled luxury listening to calming whale music or similar.Now you'd given some perceived (and incorrect) benefits of driving, let's do a few for cycling.- Less exposure to pollution - counter‑intuitively, cyclists often inhale less pollution than drivers stuck in enclosed traffic- predictable journey times- lower runnign costs- easier to park- less noise pollution- faster- space efficient- greater independence especially for yunger people I could go on.Yeah, I get wet sometimes, but I'm not made of sugar.>PS. Why don’t you write under your real name?If you don't think I'm writing under my own name please report to admin, it's against the rules to not write under your own name (hint, I am writing under my own name).I would go on to ask why this is a common thing, there are people online that when somebody posts something they don't like, especially home truths, they accuse them of not being who they say they are, but I guess I'm not going to get an answer to that. I think it's related to cognative dissonence.

Paul James ● 3h

“ Would you prefer it if I drove my jounrey instead of cycling it?”I don’t think the majority of people care less how you travel. The point is that, as a Troll intent on being obtuse, you can’t restrain yourself from making some nasty or bitchy comment about motorists and driving,  in the hope that your perverse obsession may convert people to cycling on dangerous, polluted roads, in the wind and rain, rather than enjoy the comfort of driving in pollution free, climate controlled luxury listening to calming whale music or similar. PS. Why don’t you write under your real name?

Steve Taylor ● 7h

Paul, that’s such a non argument.What if. What if. What if.

Simon Hayes ● 8h

>one of the many trips I have to take which would be impossible to do on a bike, particularly with a dog in tow.Mark, I know not everybody can ride a bike for some or all their journeys.However, if all the people that cycled drove, then that that line of cars would be much much longer.Would you prefer it if I drove my jounrey instead of cycling it?

Paul James ● 9h

I agree the traffic has been terrible along here for many weeks, with not much sign of any activity happening with the roadworks. I have to make fairly regular trips to the Pets at Home in Brentford for various supplies, one of the many trips I have to take which would be impossible to do on a bike, particularly with a dog in tow. I often wonder if Paul James is in fact Paul Campbell under a different name? Slightly less aggressive but equally silly comments relating to cycling...

Mark Edwards ● 1d

Don’t worry, Juliet.  Paul is just being obtuse. He’s known on this forum to be unnecessarily argumentative and always loses the argument. The Forum Fool some say.  It’s doubtful that he cycles through  Brentford at all. Some say that Paul isn’t even his real name and that he’s just a Troll.

Steve Taylor ● 1d

>Do you get stuck in a traffic jam there every day?No, I'm lucky enough to be able to use a pedal cycle to get to my destination so I just breeze past it like it's not there.

Paul James ● 1d

Do you get stuck in a traffic jam there every day?

Juliet Hogg ● 1d

Sorry Paul.

Juliet Hogg ● 1d

Is "you never set anyone working there" something drivers have to say. I pass this twice a day on my bike and always see people working there.

Paul James ● 1d