Crash blocks Mancunian Way

October 08, 2007

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AN ACCIDENT on the Mancunian Way caused early morning traffic chaos for drivers today, when a car collided with a crash barrier.

The eastbound carriageway was closed for an hour while emergency services dealt with the incident at the Manchester University exit.

Police said it appeared that the driver had missed the exit, and had swerved, hitting the barrier. The motorist was uninjured, but his vehicle had to be recovered.

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The Bobelesque, In The Rye (08/10/2007 at 08:50)

It caused chaos. Incompetent drivers who do this sort of thing should be prosecuted - it must cost literally thousands in lost work.

Having said that, the idiot who designed the exit slip from the eastbound down to the back of UMIST wants sacking. The combination of a badly designed road and a poor driver obviously proved too much.

Thanks you two - I was 25 mimnutes late!

alvinlwh (08/10/2007 at 09:30)

With the traffic in city centre, I wonder why would anyone want to set up their offices there? I would not work for a city centre company.

The Bobelesque, In The Rye (08/10/2007 at 10:42)

alvin: I don't work for a city centre company, I pass through from North to South - you know, one of the ones who will be hammered by the totally immoral congestion charge.

Gloria (08/10/2007 at 11:05)

bobblesque in the rye 25 mins late and still finds time to post on here!

The Bobelesque, In The Rye (08/10/2007 at 11:24)

Yes Gloria - see you're busy too.

Mr Manchester (08/10/2007 at 11:36)

Gloria/Count: knuckle down, the pair of you.

The Bobelesque, In The Rye (08/10/2007 at 11:40)

Mr M: I would but sadly we have no work today - out of bobbins. They are happy to pay me to play on the internet.

BTW: It's my 30th Wedding Anniversary today. We didn't get any cards because the communist bully boy postpersons are on strike!

Mr Manchester (08/10/2007 at 12:10)

Congratulations, your Countness.

Tsk, your friends and relatives should have posted them earlier or hand delivered them.

Mike, Manchester (08/10/2007 at 13:17)

25 minutes late? Luxury. Try sitting on the M60 between Ashton and Stockport on a bad day - you know, when it drizzles, someone smashes an indicator and they close 2 lanes. 2 hours late has happened to me several times.

The Bobelesque, In The Rye (08/10/2007 at 13:47)

Mike: I travel from Chadderton to the airport and have sat on the M60 many a time. I gave up a year ago. I now do City Centre then out along the Parkway. Usually takes me 40 minutes max and is 7 miles less than the motorway. So much for the congestion imagined by the council. I go home on the M60 and frequesntly travel at 70mph - so no probelm there either.

gaudinoscarkeys (09/10/2007 at 12:47)

> CURSED COMMUTERS
>
> On buses and trains
> The dull and the plain
> Sit in social isolation
> wasting their time
> Secretly bemoaning their lives
> waiting for individual stops and stations......
>
> The bemused faces stare
> into empty places where
> They find the fire as burned
> Driven by self sympathy
> adopting a role of docility
> How many chances has one spurned.
>
> Imprissioned by the grey skies
> dependant on artificial highs
> though substance and material things
> Inhale then out with I sigh....please cut me loose from these puppeteers
> strings
>
> One sad soul nodded off
> He went many stops too far
> He said sod it take me to the butchers
> En route to the abbatoir
>
> Up for work,I think again
> I may aswell join the dealers and the looters
> cos I dont know how long I can contain myself
> being one of these cursed commuters.
>

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