Further Yet More Road Closed Misery!

Another Road Closed!

Ugh! This is getting beyond a joke. Our increasingly smug (Stockholm syndrome?) double agent - Codename "Janniejumbo" - operating from his deep cover legend within the so-called cycling activist 'fraternity' left us a new microfilm in the latest dead-letter box behind the Denburn Heritage Dual Carriageway commemorative plaque on Rosemount Viaduct.

Haudagain Roundabout
Look at the congestion!

In this film, he exposes the fact that what should be a super-secret rat run for important motorists travelling between Rosehill to Bucksburn and avoiding the Haudagain Roundabout (second-worst roundabout in Britain) has been closed to all traffic but pestestrians, cyclits and arrogant horsey people.

It's a disgrace! We demand that this vital piece of nationally-important infrastructure be opened for use by the drivers of Abedeen Cars immediately. Not only that, we also want the planned 'improvements' at the Haudagain Roundabout to proceed immediately. The demolition of the tenement blocks at Logie and Manor to make way for a relief road will make a hundred or so people homeless, but - em, whatever! That's DSS-land anyway. About these people we care not one jot.

In any case, we like the council's choice of words about the necessity to demolish the tenements in Logie and Manor - they say that building a relief road on the site of these homes will:

...contribute to the City Council’s regeneration aims by complementing the development of the Logie/Manor area of Middlefield.

Contributing and Complementing

Rage against Communist Death-Worship

Word comes from undertakers "The Co-operative Funeralcare" that road rage against funeral corteges has become commonplace with over half of all drivers having witnessed incidents against processions. The report says:

Funeral processions are expected to obey all the usual traffic rules but impatient drivers are no longer showing a passing cortege the respect which was once commonplace.
The top five regions/countries with highest instances of road rage are:

• Northern England
• Scotland
• South East England
• South West England
• Northern Ireland

These findings are independently backed by the views of the funeral directors themselves from The Co-operative Funeralcare, who admitted that one in five funeral corteges are disrupted directly as a result of lack of concern or awareness by other road users.
“The situation has got increasingly worse over the years, with more traffic on today’s roads and people’s busier lifestyles,” said David Collingwood, Operations Director for The Co-operative Funeralcare.

This is disgusting. Quite upsetting really. What these death-worshiping co-op communists fail to recognise is that most people aspire to the convenience of personal motor transport, pay dearly for the privilege, provide much employment, contribute greatly in taxes, and then people like them behave as if they own the road and expect we hard-pressed motorists to (quote):

• Slow down
• Keep your distance
• Don’t cut into the funeral procession
• Don’t use your horn
• Give the cortege right of way
• Turn down music

Note that this is exactly the sort of stuff we tend to hear from show-off cyclits and arrogant horsey people.

As lefty co-operative people these death-worshiping undertakers have a lot in common with cyclists and so probably don't understand the dynamics of the free market. There's therefore no way they can appreciate that busy important people in nice cars have to hurry - either to work to shuffle figures about on a spreadsheet, or to the shops - both the only sure-fire sources of the economic growth. How do the dead contribute to economic growth? They don't.

It's comforting to note that the Institute of Advanced Motorists agrees with us, as confirmed by this quote from IAM chief examiner Peter Rodger:

With the increasing pace and pressure that people feel in life, it is not surprising that there is less respect and patience for funeral processions, with the ... delay they represent.

Yes. Funerals shouldn't be allowed to use the roads which we have to pay through the nose for. Especially not co-operative funerals, which are communist.

Dogs in Mangers put Bypass and Denburn Dual Carriagway Under Threat

Our deep-cover double-agent "Codename JannieJumbo" sent us these pictures from deep within his embedded position as part of Aberdeen's increasingly beleaguered cycling fraternity. The photos are taken from the so-called "Old Deeside Line", which is supposedly now "Route 195" on the "National Cycle Network". Whatever that is.

These pictures are taken facing west, near the former site of Milltimber Station, looking towards Milltimber Brae Road. The entrance to the Camphill Estate can be made out in the upper right quadrant of the first photo. From left to right (south to north) this is the route of the forthcoming special category road (motorway) the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route (AWPR), or just: "The Bypass" as we like to call it. This 45 km road had been due to open in 2012.

Firstly we were delighted to see that things are progressing at last - surveyors in the field, marking out carriageway widths - laying down flags and markers - is that a theodolite?


But then, taking a closer look, our mouths went dry - our hearts sank - our cheeks flushed with anger. Those aren't surveyors; they are young girls. Those aren't flags and markers; they are show-jumps! Those aren't theodolites; they are horses!


Frankly, we were horrified. Horrified on so many levels. Firstly, these people must know full well that they are playing games on the bed of the forthcoming motorway. So they are deliberately and provocatively rubbing the hard-pressed motorist's nose in the fact that some nimby naysayers court action is delaying the start of work on The Bypass.

Secondly, these people are beyond our understanding.  Why aren't they safe and cozy inside a nice car? Don't they know that horse-riding is as dangerous as taking drugs? No, we don't understand. The only possible reason they could be out there showing off with their ad-hoc gymkhana is to anger motorists with their highly provocative dog-in-a-manger attitude: "Look we're simply mucking about where your bypass is supposed to go but isn't". They've even parked their spare horses on the location of the critical SUDS drainage system for the motorway. These people have no shame!




Flaunting their petrol-free horse-use in front of tax-paying motorists, these arrogant horsey people are one of the critical-path barriers to a modern car-based transport system from the 1950's for Aberdeen "City and Shire". The sort of modern car-based transport system that culminates in a huge dual carriageway without pedestrian access wafting high-speed busy shoppers directly into the centre of covered malls in the heart of the historic city centre. We mean, of course, the now-threatened Denburn Dual Carriageway.

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