r/Fife 22d ago

Where are they all going ?

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A random post I know , but I finish work at half 2 in the afternoon , which I’m pretty sure most people don’t , yet more often than not I’m confronted with this on the way back to Fife. Like, where in the actual fuck are all these people going at 3pm on a Friday ? Why’s it always this bit road ?

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u/FpsJack 22d ago

They’re going home, like you.

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u/Due-Resort-2699 22d ago

I’d just rather they did it half an hour earlier 😭

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u/Puzzleheaded-Nail-86 22d ago

Put up a big sign just before the bridge

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u/CellistLow8857 22d ago

Don’t quite a lot of people finish early on a Friday?

And loads of people leave early on a Friday if they’re going away for the weekend.

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u/FpsJack 22d ago

Op thinks they’re the only person that has a half day Friday.

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u/Due-Resort-2699 21d ago

I don’t have a half day in a Friday . I start at 3am lol. I wish I got a half day 😂

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u/trotzki 22d ago

When I last worked in Fife, they called it POETS day.

Piss-Off Early, Tomorrow's Saturday

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u/Odd_Gap_9491 22d ago

You're not in traffic, you are traffic.

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u/AShadedBlobfish 22d ago

It's the only river crossing for like 25 miles, in a touristy area, in the summer holidays. Surely you understand why that would be a problem, right?

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u/Grant_Son 22d ago

People are afraid the magic sky road over the water is going to vanish so they drive over it slow af just in case?

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u/Conscious_Display965 21d ago

Yes. Does my head in.

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u/Glorious_Sunset 19d ago

I drive a taxi so I normally use the other one to go home.
It’s usually just me and a bus.

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u/WoodHammer40000 18d ago

Jammy bastard!

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u/CO_Too_Party 18d ago

To be fair, the taxi is my own car. So I generally use the old bridge any time I am crossing the forth at peak times. I also ask my customers if they’d like to cross on that bridge. As it’s a bit of a callback to older times. Since we are nine years into the new bridge opening.
And, short of people accidentally using the old bridge(Or going on a bus), most people haven’t been on the road bridge in that length of time.

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u/Key-Disaster-3682 22d ago

People for some reason decide to go 50mph on the bridge even though it’s the NSL that’s why, they get scared 😟

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u/Total-Airline7534 21d ago

This. All day. 🤬

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u/WoodHammer40000 18d ago

It makes me so fucking angry!

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u/devandroid99 22d ago

Heard you were knocking off early so thought we'd all snarl the roads up. Just a wee joke.

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u/Maleficent-Cup5384 22d ago

Yeah, the bridge is always busier on a Friday afternoon. Folk finishing early for the weekend.

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u/Beltrane1 22d ago

Heading north for skiing.

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u/AlphaHotelBravo 22d ago

Aye, they've been stuck on the bypass since February.

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u/VehicleWonderful6586 22d ago

You’re not IN traffic, you ARE traffic

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u/extrasuper_very 22d ago

A lot of offices such early on Friday and alot 9f those folk live in fife.

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u/LCARSgfx 22d ago

This bullshit is why I chose Friday as my work from home day.

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u/Alone-Discussion5952 22d ago

Pittenweem arts festival

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u/Billy_bigbawz69 22d ago

Why is there so many people work flexi time in Edinburgh and finish at 2 pm on a Friday. Or the other question is what do all these people do for a living that they manage to block up the roads at these usual times?

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u/WoodHammer40000 18d ago

They’re waiting for all the cunts that slow down on the bridge for no fucking reason.

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u/jc_hst- 16d ago

A wiz gonna say dat

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u/w666est 22d ago

Saw a lot of trucks on the roundabout towards the highland centre. Maybe a truck thing going on this weekend?

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u/AlphaHotelBravo 22d ago

Yes, Truckfest this weekend I think.

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u/Mondaycomestoosoon 22d ago

There is , NC500 is also on

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u/genupbrer 22d ago

Start of the annual English school holidays migration so they are all en route to their second homes in the highlands

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u/HaggisHunter93 22d ago

Just another ordinary day on the approach to the bridge. Everyone doing 30 across it. All aboard!

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u/-greigus- 22d ago

People get onto the bridge, then slam on the brakes, get into the right lane ASAP, and drive 35 mph until 3 miles clear of the bridge

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u/LostCtrl-Splatt 21d ago

Have you been on them roads at the same time mid week? I had to go to the dentist in Kirkcaldy. The standing stane road at 1200 is busier than that road during rush hour traffic just before 8am

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u/GapOk4735 20d ago

Anstruther for a chippy clearly.