Glesga_Steve wrote:It never ceases to amaze me that people are prepared to sit in M8 idling traffic from Baillieston Interchange all the way to the city centre. There are so many other routes they could take yet they don't - the only explanation can be that they have never bothered their backsides trying to work out alternative routes.
It pays to learn your way around or, if you're going somewhere you don't travel to/through often, have a road map/street atlas in the car (I don't trust those Sat Nav devices - I prefer good old map reading). Obviously the more remote an area you are in then the more dificult that becomes but how often is that the case?
Agree with you there - lots of underused tricks when you know your way about!
Coming back from visiting the grandparents in Motherwell last week, I got to Baillieston and nothing was shifting because of the snow. I came straight off at Easterhouse and headed along Edinburgh Road back to Dennistoun - hardly a car on there, and the road had been gritted and was clear. From a stop-start crawl at 5mph, to a steady 30mph!
Before I passed my driving test, my dad would have me drive into Glasgow every Saturday. We could do the A8, but obviously had to leave before it turned into motorway. We'd take the various routes into town, all of which I regularly use now as 'shortcuts' when the M8 gets choked.