It used to take around 30 minutes in rush hour. If I left 15 minutes earlier it could be as little as 20 minutes (although that didn't happen often!).
Then something happened to the traffic - I think it may have been due to the reduction in Humber Bridge tolls. There must be more people working on the other side of the Bridge to that where they live, now they can afford the crossing.
Be that as it may, the end result is that I can no longer predict the journey time. Usually it's more like 40 minutes, so I leave a bit earlier but it doesn't make any difference to the length of the trip. Some days take longer.
Like today.
I left around 15 minutes ahead of the deadline, but never really got above 40 miles per hour. The speed limits most of the way are 50 or 60, but someone in the queue ahead wanted to drive at 40. Well, although that's a bit irritating, I wasn't in a hurry so I pootled along in the queue.
Then we got to a stretch of 30 mph limit. What did the car ahead do? Carried on at 40 - or more - it just disappeared into the distance.
Now I don't know about you, but I find that REALLY irritating. Almost as bad as the fools who sit on my bumper when I observe the 30mph speed limit, then just before the end of speed limit sign they suddenly spot a clear patch and zoom past me. Seems to irritate them when I catch up shortly after.
Is it me (as the sainted Terry Wogan used to ask), or are the latter fools almost always young and usually men? What is so difficult about observing speed limits? They're there for a reason.
Perhaps it's because they are young, male and driving a big car, and the woman in the small car ahead has silver hair and they don't like being behind me.
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