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lingking

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i have waited 3 weeks for this rant,tyne tunnel 2:mad: they have shut one and opened another one,not difficult i would have thought,but fair to say i do not have a qualification in traffic management,which i reckon puts me on level terms with the planners of tyne tunnel 2 chaos:mad:so what we got:question: if your going north queue at the tunnel from 0630,it used to be 0700:exclam: so thats worse:mad: coming south:question: minimum disaster scenario is traffic backed up to silver link:mad: maximum disaster scenario backed up from silverlink halfway to moorfarm:mad: an absolute and utter farce from day one:mad: i believe certificates were given to the first 100 through:question: they should give a medal to all the other poor sods that have to use it:exclam:(and,yes,i know, nobody "has" to use it)the options are nil,hours spent going past the present farce of the bypass(metrocentre) created many years ago,by an eqally unqualified bunch of tossers:mad: next option, go over tyne bridge,its a lovely bridge,and you will get plenty of time to look at it,believe me:mad:
 
I was just about to ask anyone if they have used the new tunnel, normally I go to pick my grandaughter up from Wardley 3-30 ish, on a wednesday tea time. normally leave Cullercoats around 2-45pm and have time to give dog a little run when we get there, no more 2.30 at the latest and no time for giving dog a run, still traffic backed right up, that bad the other day, went along bottom road and over swing bridge. On the way back you can gaurantee you can add 20 mins at least on your journey and I come through Jarrow and to the tunnel the back way. When both tunnels are the same size how can the new one take so long, bad planning me thinks, looking at it they have the booths in the wrong place.
 
hmmmm your not impressed then .... :D :D

norm

:) understand fully mate, tunnel may be best in business but the infrasructure (the approaches) should have been done first !

:)

norm
 
Norman said:
hmmmm your not impressed then .... :D :D

norm

:) understand fully mate, tunnel may be best in business but the infrasructure (the approaches) should have been done first !

:)

norm
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could well be right, but the existing infrasructure is the same as it was for the old tunnel, they have certainly made a boobo somewhere, well so what only another two year before they are both open.
 
Yeah it's because the new booths are well up the A19 and south bound traffic are now backed up to the silverlink, result, gridlock and it's also chaos for the north bound traffic backed up at jarrow, shields and A19 approach with no traffic light control, you've got about 5 lanes of traffic filtering into one, result, again gridlock. And then they had the smart idea of repair work to the whitemare poole roundabout which has componded the chaos. And I read their shutting down the metro from tynemouth to byker (or somewhere around there), again adding to the chaos. I honestly think they either have a major communication problem or their simply incompetent. Why can't the idiots plan and program their works properly in order to cause minimum inconvenience.
 
rant 2 ho ho ho:D the situation is not good:exclam: but it is not helped by numpkys in cars who dont know which lane they want to be in(they are all bad) then theres the tossers class 1 who get to the booth and start looking for change,now they are the absolute cream of the crop,that lot,all of them depriving a village of an idiot:exclam::mad::mad::mad::mad:
 
once the other tunnel is open again will it not be better. :question::question:

Ya could all ways go the long way round. :D:D:D:D
 
lingking said:
i have waited 3 weeks for this rant,tyne tunnel 2:mad: they have shut one and opened another one,not difficult i would have thought,but fair to say i do not have a qualification in traffic management,which i reckon puts me on level terms with the planners of tyne tunnel 2 chaos:mad:so what we got:question: if your going north queue at the tunnel from 0630,it used to be 0700:exclam: so thats worse:mad: coming south:question: minimum disaster scenario is traffic backed up to silver link:mad: maximum disaster scenario backed up from silverlink halfway to moorfarm:mad: an absolute and utter farce from day one:mad: i believe certificates were given to the first 100 through:question: they should give a medal to all the other poor sods that have to use it:exclam:(and,yes,i know, nobody "has" to use it)the options are nil,hours spent going past the present farce of the bypass(metrocentre) created many years ago,by an eqally unqualified bunch of tossers:mad: next option, go over tyne bridge,its a lovely bridge,and you will get plenty of time to look at it,believe me:mad:
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I love a good rant, everyone is entitled to one and I've had a good fair few myself! This one was a cracker, well said!!

I only use the tunnel when im back visiting my folkes and its always been a nightmare.... but not nearly as much as that roundabout trying to get to the cinema at the silverlink, i've always been backed up there for 30 minutes when using it!

I must thank the rescue services at the tunnel though who bailed me out of the **** when my car broke down just before passing the toll booths! I can only begin to imagine what people thought of me right then, although luckily it was quite quiet at the time!
 
lingking said:
if they dont improve approach and departure roads i doubt it very much:mad::mad::mad::mad:
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I've been working up Ashington since October :(, and travelling back to Easington was taking 1hr through the old tunnel :), this jumped to 1hr 30mins on the opening of the new tunnel :mad: due to traffic backing up, we now go the A1 past the Metro and it takes 1hr 10mins. Its a farce the way it is set up:mad: i think TT2 stands for THICK Tw**s 2.

My advice is if you are travelling south around 4-5 o'clock go the A1 route and save yourself £1-20 and a long wait...:D
 
aye jester its a ruddy nightmare:exclam: heres rant 3 the motorbikes:exclam: not their presence or existance:exclam: but the tossers who sit on them:mad: bikes worth thousands,and they are wearing jeans and trainers complete and utter dumbleoids it beggars beleif:exclam: rant 4,havent mentioned this one for a while,fortunately its going away for the summer:D tossers on bicycles on dark mornings /nights with no flaming lights,another bunch of tossers with a death wish.however hit one with your car and see who gets the blame,regardless of circumstance.if its not your fault you have all the crap/cost of proving your innocence:mad:
 
lingking said:
aye jester its a ruddy nightmare:exclam: heres rant 3 the motorbikes:exclam: not their presence or existance:exclam: but the tossers who sit on them:mad: bikes worth thousands,and they are wearing jeans and trainers complete and utter dumbleoids it beggars beleif:exclam: rant 4,havent mentioned this one for a while,fortunately its going away for the summer:D tossers on bicycles on dark mornings /nights with no flaming lights,another bunch of tossers with a death wish.however hit one with your car and see who gets the blame,regardless of circumstance.if its not your fault you have all the crap/cost of proving your innocence:mad:
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Agree lingking, you've got to have eyes in the back of yer head with some of them (the irresponsible ones that is). The ones I'm talking about have no regard for the highway code, flying across the carriageway without signaling, running red lights, etc. etc. and like you say, hit a one and you'd be straight downtown. If RSA can be looked at for regulation why can't road using cyclists also!
 
Its all supposed to be finished completely by DEC 2011...
The new tunnel was supposed to be open BY Feb 2011, not by end of Feb. Its not even finished... have you seen the state of the West wall? The East side looks perfect but the west looks like someone hosed it with concrete and let it run down the walls?
I think alot of the delays is because the new toll boothes are ****!
I was stuck behind someone at a toll booth on a friday afternoon, and the message board was alternating between 'WAIT' and 'Welcome' constantly so I reversed back and moved to the adjacent booth and that one started doing the same!! stuck there for a couple of minutes and nobody came to sort it until it eventually sorted itself out!
 
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