Anybody else noticed the roads have got busier ?

I’ve been working throughout the lockdown as you can’t do our job from home and we’ve remained open to supply essential infrastructure & utility works. For the first two weeks of lockdown hardly a car on the road, this week I’ve noticed a marked difference both driving to and from work, yesterday and this morning weren't far off normal volumes. Is it that firms are returning to work ? Or just that folk are stir crazy now and more are going out. Not seen any police checkpoints up our way, in fact I can’t remember the last time I saw a police car.

 

Traffic for me has been totally dead last few days, what I am seeing more of at the moment though is folk out and about, running, walking cycling etc. Probably down to fact it is warm again but just because you can go for one walk/run or cycle a day doesn't mean you have to. People need to be staying in doors as much as they can but they don't seem to be grasping that.

 

I'm going out once a day cos the dog needs exercise but tbh I would even if he didnt. I cant stay indoors all.day. people around me are all practising the 2m rule, even where teenagers are walking together

 

I go out every night around 11 with the dog. Not many about, but the last few days has seen more cars, and a lot more noise from the M1... although that could be delivery trucks. I’ve a feeling people are starting to go out and about to friends....

 

Those who can are ******* off into the cou try for some isolation in a log cabin.

Different four walls. A change is as good as a rest etc.

 

Living in Leeds City Centre, I have seen lots more cars on the road and people walking around not following the 2m guidance. Indeed, when I went for my weekly shop last week people were getting closer to me than I’m sure they generally do when I go shopping despite my best efforts to keep away. One employee there genuinely even coughed on me from right behind me!
I think some people have decided that the novelty has worn off and are doing what they want, realising it isn’t being policed / enforced around here. I think as someone says above there’ll be lots of parties / bbqs this bank holiday weekend round peoples houses.
People will justify it in the abstract that house could THEIR friends have it, be reyt.

 

Yep.

 

Was stood in a queue at a local shop yesterday - everybody behaving impeccably one in one out queueing outside six feet apart- just down the hill 3 teenagers sat outside a pub at one of the tables, generally not giving a ****, talking about where to go next.

 

Thought the same these past couple of days. I'm the same as you, I work in food manufacturing and have been in as normal.

 

Apart from three local drunks on a bench outside sharing a bottle of Vodka most people seem to be good at distancing. Some of the youths I see on the fields together are actually student flatmates. Only real change has been groups of young men in cars driving around. I don't know if they are going anywhere but the biggest risk seems to be their s#h#i#t driving as they speed around like utter bells.

 

Mate sent me a photo of à gridlocked M1 this morning and the amount of vehicles was staggering!

 

Yep noticed an increase last Friday and today seemed to be even more.
Have also noticed a lot more people at the local shops, but not sure if this is just because they are standing outside waiting to get in so it seems more.

 

Lots of people reporting visitors to their second homes in Cornwall, where only 1/3 of the COVID patients in the *one* hospital live in Cornwall. It doesn't help when you have the likes of Prince Charles dropping everything and going to Scotland while ill and nothing being done about it.

Under the terms of the Coronavirus law though, that is illegal travel. Unfortunately, the police can only issue fines and not confiscate their second houses for being dicks.

 

My favourite thing about the whole crisis is reading more and more posts by people being pious about people they don’t think should be out and about who they’ve seen when they’ve been out and about.

 

https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/celebs-tv/gordon-ramsay-reportedly-threatened-over-4029918

Doesn't help when famous people think they are above what they are being told and switch houses.

 

They could name and shame though. I think a lot of companies and individuals that will feel a back lash when this is all over Just a pity it’s not an actual back lash or two

 

Kirstie Allsopp and Gordon Ramsey are two of the big names that have done this - along with Prince Charles and the Scottish (deputy?) CMO (who has lost her job over it). IIRC another might be Stanley Johnson, but not 100% on him.

 

That’s exactly the situation around here. Lots of students have stayed as it’s better to be cooped up with your mates than your parents and they’re still having to pay a fortune in rent so they may as well use it. Lots of idiot drivers going around thinking they look cool speeding everywhere.

 

I had to drive to Leeds yesterday (essential) and the amount of cars surprised me. Not full on rush-hour, but certainly a million miles from the situation when I had to make the same essential trip 2 weeks ago.

 

Yeah, daughter has stayed at Uni - although she came out of self-isolation on the day the lockdown started so couldn't have come home anyway if she wanted to.