{"id":4894,"date":"2014-01-10T21:52:08","date_gmt":"2014-01-10T21:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk:\/blog\/?p=4894"},"modified":"2020-11-17T22:55:28","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T22:55:28","slug":"rat-running","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/rat-running\/","title":{"rendered":"Rat Running"},"content":{"rendered":"Being a local Slough boy, I like to think I know the shortcuts around town. Growing up down the road in High Wycombe, I spent many evenings and weekends in the local town of Slough. In particular as there is still no Hindu temple in my home town, this was the closest with a place of worship.\n\nDriving home on Thursday afternoon, I listen to the radio and tend to tart around the stations working my way down from national to local. I switched to Time 106.6 which had a local news bulletin, directly after the main news. Lansdowne Avenue<\/a> is to be closed<\/a> to traffic from Monday 13th onwards. This would have an adverse affect on not just my journey to work but general journeys from the flat, to town or the supermarket. While I would never use the road to rat run, it was a useful shortcut to take out the Stoke Poges Lane traffic light crossroads. I just feel residents got annoyed with the amount of traffic and in many cases, people forgot it was a residential area, rather than a main route and never reduced their driving speed.\n\nThe impact for me is an additional few minutes on top of my morning commute, which includes a lifetime waiting at the lights at the end of Stoke Poges Lane. The signage went up last week but I did not notice it covered in black bin bags until later this week. How will they police such a closure, I do not know, unless they plan to actually block the road off completely, which is very unlikely. My answer came the next day, when signs were added and the red and white blocks were placed on the road.\n

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