Anyone else find driving into Leeds is awful

Musicwolf · October 2023

PeteC said:

Used to be some really good music shops there too in the 70s and 80s - but all since decimated by the big box stores, eBay and Reverb ( yes, I'm just getting old...)

I was at the University 87-90. I can't remember the names but there was one big store on The Headow (if you came out of the St Johns Centre and turned right down the hill it was on the right hand side) where I bought my Squier Strat in LPB.

There was another place where I got my Laney combo after my finals, but I think that even the building no longer exists. Possibly demolished to make way for the Arena?

Happy days. Lived on Chestnut Ave, Hyde Park cinema at the bottom of the road and gigging at The Royal Park a little further down.

sev112 · October 2023

sev112 said:

Gsev112 said:

jonnyburgo said:

Went to visit son at Uni on Saturday, this is our second time going, what an awful city, the road layouts are like someone threw cooked spaghetti into the air and just left it as it landed, every junction has like 3 options all next to each other, but maybe 1 or two will be no entry, in fact no entry signs everywhere, totally over stimulating, busy busy, cars beeping, people getting angry, mad overtakers. I hate driving into Leeds. Awful.

Not as bad as trying to get into a taxi …

A girl in a tracksuit attacked me !

She said that she got there before me …

hollywoodrox · October 2023

I once went to Leeds for a laugh
came back in stitches

Stratavarious · October 2023

Be glad you don’t have to load in a bunch of gear for city centre functions then.

bloodandtears · October 2023

slacker said:

My daughter learnt to drive in Ealing and then went to live in the country near Taunton. They never knew what hit them.

did it evaporate after the collision?

FX_Munkee · October 2023

randella said:

northern_guit said:

Like any town or city, if you live there, you learn to negotiate it. If you’re a stranger to any town, the roads can be intimidating.
Before you slag off my home town, let me tell you, I was on the road for years. Try Manchester and Stoke, both an absolute mare and no doubt there are dozens more examples.

This about sums it up. I deal with the Mancunian Way on the regular without really thinking. It's what you get used to.

On the other hand, my friends in Leeds think nothing of the Loop which I bloody hate and puts me in mind of an ill-tempered Large Hadron Collider.

Is that what they call the inner ring road now? You should have tried it when it was a 60 limit (or was it 70?) and technically a motorway, proper Blade Runner at night through the tunnels. IIRC it had the claim to fame of being the only motorway in the UK with an exit slip road on the right hand side at one point (onto North street/New Briggate)

rlw · October 2023

FX_Munkee said:

randella said:

northern_guit said:

Like any town or city, if you live there, you learn to negotiate it. If you’re a stranger to any town, the roads can be intimidating.
Before you slag off my home town, let me tell you, I was on the road for years. Try Manchester and Stoke, both an absolute mare and no doubt there are dozens more examples.

This about sums it up. I deal with the Mancunian Way on the regular without really thinking. It's what you get used to.

On the other hand, my friends in Leeds think nothing of the Loop which I bloody hate and puts me in mind of an ill-tempered Large Hadron Collider.

Is that what they call the inner ring road now? You should have tried it when it was a 60 limit (or was it 70?) and technically a motorway, proper Blade Runner at night through the tunnels. IIRC it had the claim to fame of being the only motorway in the UK with an exit slip road on the right hand side at one point (onto North street/New Briggate)

That was fun before they cut the speed limits. Same as the Peripherique - I used to love that before they put cameras in and now everyone drives like a very slow older person.

What gets me is that my family used to live in both East Keswick and Bardsey and then, in the seventies, it was twenty minutes to parking up in the centre. Which now takes an awful lot longer.

Shrews · October 2023

I've been to Leeds

mudslide73 · October 2023

Brian Clough only lasted 44 days so it must be bad.

stickyfiddle · October 2023

I've never been to Leeds.

It sounds nice though!!

EricTheWeary · October 2023

https://youtu.be/duACJCpbfiQ?si=TaUQoKYDqnMKr36e

Kirkgate market is really nice, lots of different types of food at lunchtime as well. I would drive to Leeds, park in the market car park, find my son, have lunch at Mr Mackerel in the market and drive back home. Well worth a 260 mile round trip.

horse · October 2023

EricTheWeary said:

https://youtu.be/duACJCpbfiQ?si=TaUQoKYDqnMKr36e

Kirkgate market is really nice, lots of different types of food at lunchtime as well. I would drive to Leeds, park in the market car park, find my son, have lunch at Mr Mackerel in the market and drive back home. Well worth a 260 mile round trip.

That story sounds a bit fishy

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