Bottom of the Newtownards Road? It’s because the Sydenham bypass is closed.
To be fair, i was born, raised and learnt to drive in London. Ive lived and worked near Belfast for 10 years, and at least the traffic crawls, ive rarley had to use my handbrake in traffic here. Oh and the Park and Rides available is very well implemented (compared with what i was used to).
Everywhere is fucked.
Had to wusah earlier, sitting at the lights at Ulster hospital heading towards Ards. An ambulance came flying with blues on to go the same direction, but turned left into a queue of single lane traffic because of road works. Literally sat for 5mins as it trickled through the town.
Imagine if it was heading for a relative of yours who needed emergency care.
The two blokes manning the 200m stretch of road works just standing like a couple of wooden ones. Great job 👏
43 years old and always has been as long as I can remember
It always makes me laugh when people complain about traffic in Belfast on here, everytime I’ve experienced it it’s most fine might be sat for 10-20mins at the absolute tops, in Manchester last week it took me hour and a half to move 1.2 miles.
Roads and infrastructure were designed for about 70% less traffic and vehicles as modern day. Ofcourse it sucks.
Ah it’ll come good
Took the glider into town and sailed past all this traffic. It was great.
Wait till you see London.
I always find it funny when people are stuck in traffic complaining about the traffic without catching on that they are contributing to the problem.
On the rare occasions I drive into Belfast I sometimes find myself doing it… That is until I have a word with myself.
This is a live feed and it’s clearly just at a permanent stand still lol
Think this is bad. Try driving through Omagh. Never seen such a horribly jammed up system, and I’ve been through Belfast, Glasgow and other major cities.
Traffic in Belfast can be rough, especially during peak hours; plan accordingly
If you can still see some road between the cars, it’s not that bad
Stopped in Belfast 4yrs ago while house hunting in Northern Ireland, and couldn’t believe how bad it was. Been living here over 3yrs now and have never been back into the city, only a couple of the retail parks on the outskirts.
Wild it’s this bad when so many people moved to hybrid roles after COVID. Stormont/BCC should be putting pressure on companies to allow office staff to WFH full time to help ease the congestion.
So glad I don’t live in east belfast at the minute with the Sydenham bypass closed
Maybe try driving on the right side? Maybe start with lorries and if you see an improvement do the same with cars after 1 week?
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>perpetually woeful
Someone has been reading a thesaurus.
” You’re not stuck in traffic, you are traffic “
Bottom of the Newtownards Road? It’s because the Sydenham bypass is closed.
To be fair, i was born, raised and learnt to drive in London. Ive lived and worked near Belfast for 10 years, and at least the traffic crawls, ive rarley had to use my handbrake in traffic here. Oh and the Park and Rides available is very well implemented (compared with what i was used to).
Everywhere is fucked.
Had to wusah earlier, sitting at the lights at Ulster hospital heading towards Ards. An ambulance came flying with blues on to go the same direction, but turned left into a queue of single lane traffic because of road works. Literally sat for 5mins as it trickled through the town.
Imagine if it was heading for a relative of yours who needed emergency care.
The two blokes manning the 200m stretch of road works just standing like a couple of wooden ones. Great job 👏
43 years old and always has been as long as I can remember
It always makes me laugh when people complain about traffic in Belfast on here, everytime I’ve experienced it it’s most fine might be sat for 10-20mins at the absolute tops, in Manchester last week it took me hour and a half to move 1.2 miles.
Roads and infrastructure were designed for about 70% less traffic and vehicles as modern day. Ofcourse it sucks.
Ah it’ll come good
Took the glider into town and sailed past all this traffic. It was great.
Wait till you see London.
I always find it funny when people are stuck in traffic complaining about the traffic without catching on that they are contributing to the problem.
On the rare occasions I drive into Belfast I sometimes find myself doing it… That is until I have a word with myself.
This is a live feed and it’s clearly just at a permanent stand still lol
Think this is bad. Try driving through Omagh. Never seen such a horribly jammed up system, and I’ve been through Belfast, Glasgow and other major cities.
Traffic in Belfast can be rough, especially during peak hours; plan accordingly
If you can still see some road between the cars, it’s not that bad
Stopped in Belfast 4yrs ago while house hunting in Northern Ireland, and couldn’t believe how bad it was. Been living here over 3yrs now and have never been back into the city, only a couple of the retail parks on the outskirts.
Wild it’s this bad when so many people moved to hybrid roles after COVID. Stormont/BCC should be putting pressure on companies to allow office staff to WFH full time to help ease the congestion.
So glad I don’t live in east belfast at the minute with the Sydenham bypass closed
Maybe try driving on the right side? Maybe start with lorries and if you see an improvement do the same with cars after 1 week?
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