Traffic chaos hits Derby and Derbyshire

“Easy answer - boycott the one horse badly run anti-car anti-disabled labourite dump.”

“It took me 2 hours to get to Derby from Belper on Tuesday morning. Today I left home at 7.30 to get to work for 9am and only just made it. All other routes are chaos as everyone tries to find a diferent route. 20 weeks (or more ) of this will be totally unreasonable. Train services from Belper are inadequate and too expensive.”

“The traffic island between Lara Croft Way and Mercian Way is a bit of an accident black spot, I pass this several times a week and hardly a week goes by without a police car, ambulance or other emergency vehicle attending to an accident by the traffic lights.

The lights have been hit by vehicles about nine times since the road opened; last month the lights on the approach to Lara croft Way were flattened completely by a large white van. Vehicles are always cutting in at this junction and more problems occur when the pedestrian lights hold traffic up at the island when the lights have changed to let traffic onto Lara Croft Way. These latest delays just make drivers more aggressive or impatient,which is the cause of more accidents and delays.”

“When I first came to Derby back in 1989 I was amazed at the number of one way streets and the town planners must have been on something to plan it that badly. However over a period of time I have come to realise the council and traffic management are one of the worse around when it comes to traffic management and allowing planning applications to be passed without considering the full implications to the local area. Put in roadworks and bad design and recipe for chaos. Move super hospital to Mickleover - plan to build 700 new homes at Kingsway and 800 new homes at Heatherton shows gross mis management and lack of traffic management it is hard to make this up. Damage is done full stop and Gartside and co in my opinion are to blame. It will never improve I am afraid while this lot is in charge.”

“then Lupo
This isn't approaching a point where the traffic is being filtered into one lane from two
Which was the situation described by Adam
This was a case of a selfish idiot being in the wrong lane, knowing it and trying to barge their way in.”

“Angel
Agree on the junctions, that is inconsiderate and stupid and only serves to make the overall situation worse as it leads to several routes all becoming clogged rather than the one
On the point of the filtering though, its not pushing in, but filtering. Using all the available road space as it is intended, if you don't the back of the queue gets further and further away and more people and more routes get caught up and clogged. If two lanes have been left open until a certain point they have been done so for a reason - to maximise the available road space and minimise the queue. If people filter correctly it will not increase anyones overall journey time but aid the smooth flow of the traffic through the roadworks area
I wonder how many people 'patiently waiting in the right lane' are those that on the motorway get straight across to the middle lane and then just sit there until their exit.
Use all the lanes correctly, as the highway code states”

“@Pagenotfound - maybe Adamdcfc84 means people like the idiot in the white 3 series BMW (No. Really...) who steamed up the outside lane from the Mercian Way island, up Uttoxeter New Road last night and then spent an age trying to get into the left hand lane of stationery traffic - as he did so he was blocking anyone wanting to make a right turn from Uttoxeter New Road into Great Northern Road.

In their one selfish act, to save themselves a few car lengths, he/she made several drivers wait several minutes before they were able to carry on inot Great Northern Road. No doubt this blocked progress around the island too.”

“but angel,
Its not 'pushing in' its filtering in
and using all the available road space as it is intended

I agree on junctions though, and roundabouts, there does seem to be a larger than average proportion of drivers in Derby that do this, and it is this action that makes the delays much worse”

“But why should people push in when others have spent time patiently waiting and being in the right lane? I agree with Adamdcfc84 - some people just push in all the time!

Another infuriating one is people blocking the road at junctions when you clearly can't get through which prevents people from turning right. or just blocking junctions generally because they don;t want to let people in. I had to wait for the filter arrow to change twice yesterday when turning from Ashbourne Road in to Uttoxeter Road because thoughtless careless people coming off Uttoxeter Road just though of themselves and blocked the junction. By the time they had moved the filter arrow had gone back to red! My exit was clear - ridiculous and people drive like total selfish morons tbh!”

“by Adamdcfc84
" the idiotic drivers who know the lanes filter into one but still use these lanes and expect to be let in"

So what would you suggest Adam, everyone stays in one lane all the way back to Micklover / Nottingham or wherever, making the queues twice as long, causing people towards the back going different places that other wise would not be caught up to get caught up in the longer queue, and so on and so on
As you say - they filter into one, so let people filter rather than being ignorant and blocking them, causing slower traffic and even more congestion”