RFI: FOR NORTH LONDONERS - WHY IS HALF OF NORTH LONDON BLOCKED OFF BY THE POLICE?

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Just a'wondering if anyone knows anything in ILX land?

― heavy stereo gem, Tuesday, 9 December 2003 09:55 (twenty-two years ago)

didn't see anything firstthing this AM. Whereabouts?

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 09:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Which part of North London? It's a big half!

― THAT Kate (kate), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 09:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Seven Sisters, Hornsey Road and a bit of Finsbury Park have all been apparently blocked off. My bus journey took almost 2.5 hours more than normal because of it. The cleaner at work told me that they blocked off Seven Sisters and Hornsey. Why? I don't know!

― heavy gem, Tuesday, 9 December 2003 09:59 (twenty-two years ago)

i heard there was an accident between Tollington Road and Holloway Road on the news and there was a police roadblock? how major i'm not sure

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 10:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh dear, the North London FAPpers have finally exploded.

― THAT Kate (kate), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 10:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Big accident, it's on the road traffic news on the bbc london site, but no details. A503 is blocked both ways

― Vicky (Vicky), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 10:01 (twenty-two years ago)

it's a nightmare round there if seven sisters gets blocked, all the backstreets back up too and there's no big roads running parallel to get to until you hit the A10

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 10:09 (twenty-two years ago)

yea, seven sisters road was blocked this morning, i was wondering what that was about,

― charltonlido (gareth), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 10:58 (twenty-two years ago)

its happened a couple times in the last 6 or 7 months, never did find out what happened the other times either

― charltonlido (gareth), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 10:59 (twenty-two years ago)

blimey, glad i've got the day off then. kate, i haven't exploded, and i don't think pete was going that way this morning, so he hasn't exploded either.

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 11:02 (twenty-two years ago)

UFO has landed, and the Queen and Tony Blair are just popping on board to get more orders from their Homeland.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 11:11 (twenty-two years ago)

I FUCKING KNEW IT !!!!

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 11:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Don't be silly, the lizard ship lands in Green Park, it's far more convenient for them.

― THAT Kate (kate), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 11:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Much amusement garnered this morning by 91 bus driver, after taking twenty minutes to get to Carsmiles Bustop deciding to follow the 41 route. Also blocked. So decideing to go up Springfield Road to Hornsey Lane. Thus taking 40 minutes to go from the left habd side of my house to the right hand side of my house. At which point i gave it up for a bad job and walked to Archway.

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 11:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Nauf Lundun bus diversions are the best - the 141 had to go thru Arsenal a few weeks back

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 11:24 (twenty-two years ago)

there is in fact a blue plaque on the busstop down the road from my house, "Carsmile's Busstop" it says...

good thing it's TCR i want to get to today, not that i'm prevaricating about leaving the house or anything, must go and buy wobs pressies...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 11:33 (twenty-two years ago)

AAARRRGGGGHHH!!!

This is my fault, for laughing at the Norf Londoners yesterday. What the frick is up with West London busroutes today? Couldn't get an 18 at Euston for half an hour, gave up and took a 30 to Baker Street, and found Marylebone Rd. completely fuXored and every bus in West London just about parked in traffic on Praed St. What's going on NOW?

(But at least I didn't have to ride on a bendy bus this morning.)

― Kate 22 (kate), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 09:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Anyone?

Oh, sigh, no one cares about West London, I'm going to go sob under the Westway.

― Kate 22 (kate), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 09:36 (twenty-two years ago)

I sort of care about west London, but it'd have to spread south of the river before I'd get annoyed. Sorry.

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 09:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Well there was an accident in Dawlish this morning AND my train was five minutes late AND someone burnt down Yeovil Town's Ticketoffice overnight. Really No ONE cares about devon...

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 10:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Because it's even Wester than the Westway.

― Kate 22 (kate), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 10:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeovil? Devon? Honestly, Nick.

― Tim (Tim), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 10:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Well as far as them there Lundunurs are concerned it might as well be!

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 10:20 (twenty-two years ago)

You Digby.

― Tim (Tim), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 10:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Stop talking about Devon. I mean, the 18 doesn't even run that far West. What was happening on Marylebone Road? Did the 12 foot lizard UFO land there for a change?

― Kate 22 (kate), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 10:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Like Peter Noone, I don't care about West London.

― Tim (Tim), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 10:23 (twenty-two years ago)

I care a lot. Marylebone Road has occasional problems with burst watermains and IDIOT drivers - there was a crash at near Regents Park a few weeks back that caused enormous tailbacks. Catching the 205 from Paddington as I often did the traffic lights at the end of Praed St or whatever it becomes past Edgware Road station would sometimes be green for just 10 seconds then red for a good 90 seconds - it took around 15 minutes to get onto Marylebone Road as a result.

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 11:35 (twenty-two years ago)

God, I hate that traffic light on the corner of Edgeware and Praed St! You think it's bad for busses, try being a pedestrian on it! (I can actually see that intersection from my office. Well, I could, if I went in my boss's office and leaned out the window.)

Oh, wait, you're talking about the EVEN WORSE traffic light right where Chapel Street (What Praed St is called on the other side of Edgeware Rd) turns into Old Marylebone Road? That's just impossible, that one.

― Kate 22 (kate), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 11:40 (twenty-two years ago)

(I think you are only allowed to do that joke if someone writes noone).

― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 11:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Which no one did. So there. I am now gnashing my teething thinking about the awful traffic lights around this area.

― Kate 22 (kate), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 11:44 (twenty-two years ago)

blimey! what was up this morning? my 91 went round the back of kings cross and down the side of st pancras, nice little diversion...

(i was still first in the office!)

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Friday, 12 December 2003 09:51 (twenty-two years ago)

weird. i took the 41 to archway and then the tube. i wonder if that is going to be a normal occurence then for the 91. oh the wonders of the 91. its a magical mystery everytime you ride it.

― heavy stereo gem, Friday, 12 December 2003 10:04 (twenty-two years ago)

big creash, in the junction between Pentonville road/grays inn rd and Where caledonian rd comes out. They were warning people at about 7am on the radio, and they were still clearing the last car away when I walked past at 9.30.

― Vicky (Vicky), Friday, 12 December 2003 10:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Ah, you mean, the Kings Cross Bridge, where the River Fleet once flowed, still exerting its nasty pull of pestilence and madness to divert the 91 of course... mwah hah hah hah!

― HRH Queen Kate (kate), Friday, 12 December 2003 10:10 (twenty-two years ago)

huge great crash in Kings cross apparently, blocking two lanes of Gray's Inn Road and Pentonville road.

The metropolitan line was joeyed this morning

― chris (chris), Friday, 12 December 2003 10:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I avoided it altogether by 41 134ing. Sounds like I might have been better off on the 91.

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 12 December 2003 10:23 (twenty-two years ago)

My only bus annoyance was a freaking lorry parked in the bus lane at the top of Tottenham Ct Road, so the bendy inarticulate 18 just stopped and blocked traffic for ten minutes until the irate bus driver eventually got out of the bus and shouted at the lorry driver until he moved his vehicle, grrrrrrr, I hate bendy busses.

Still, I was 10 minutes early to work anyway...

― HRH Queen Kate (kate), Friday, 12 December 2003 10:37 (twenty-two years ago)

My friend took the 91 and had the same problem with the detour. She was laughing because a woman on a mobile was going 'I'm on the 91. We are turning. No, I really don't know where we are going now. It's always a bit of a mystery on the 91 bus'.

Ha ha!

― heavy stereo gem, Friday, 12 December 2003 10:39 (twenty-two years ago)

The 91 goes up my street. (I think? Maybe it only does sometimes.) Maybe I should ride it sometime and see where I end up!

― HRH Queen Kate (kate), Friday, 12 December 2003 10:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Er, Crouch End. Though it has been the magical mystery bus this week so...

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 12 December 2003 10:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Thanks for ruining the mystery, Pete. Though Crouch End sounds pretty mysterious, I'm trying to think if I've ever been, and I'm not sure.

Oh wait, my report has finished compiling. I guess I'll never know...

― HRH Queen Kate (kate), Friday, 12 December 2003 10:53 (twenty-two years ago)

crouch end is listed in the new book 'crap places to live in england'. it is described as the land of the giant pram and property obsessionals!! ha ha.

― heavy stereo gem, Friday, 12 December 2003 11:30 (twenty-two years ago)

What is this "Crap Places To Live In London"? Is it going to be like an updated version of Glynis Roberts' "Metropolitan Myths"? (Psychogeography's ground zero, really, f*ck that Sinclair git.)

― HRH Queen Kate (kate), Friday, 12 December 2003 11:32 (twenty-two years ago)

its one of those new humour books - easily located in borders, etc. good hangover read on sunday when you don't want to leave the sofa.

― heavy stereo gem, Friday, 12 December 2003 11:34 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought Crouch End was where people go when they die, oh no Will Self, oh no!

― HRH Queen Kate (kate), Friday, 12 December 2003 11:35 (twenty-two years ago)

IS THAT WHY THE 91 IS SUCH A MAGICAL MYSTERY BUS, BECAUSE IT'S REALLY DRIVEN BY DEAD PEOPLE?!?!??

― HRH Queen Kate (kate), Friday, 12 December 2003 11:35 (twenty-two years ago)

nah I think they are not dead just out of work 'creatives'. ha ha. being 'creative'.

― heavy stereo gem, Friday, 12 December 2003 11:36 (twenty-two years ago)

"The 91 is a joke, etc."

(Ah, if only Public Enemy had been from North London)

― HRH Queen Kate (kate), Friday, 12 December 2003 11:37 (twenty-two years ago)

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