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It's fantastic the Great Yorkshire Show is so popular, but Harrogate traffic is crap at the best of times.
3 days of traffic hell is about to begin...
It's busy today already with people setting up - Wetherby Road was packed at 10am. I just avoid the centre as best I can.
Joy of joys!
Still - it will be good practice for September's carnage.
If only there was a quicker, two wheeled alternative.....
😊
A) it's better than the flower show
B) it's often quicker for me when the show is on than not as the stationery traffic means less dodging cars.
C) I thoroughly enjoy bimbling up the RH lane past the queuing traffic on Knaresborough Hill when the show is on (though I've been doing that more often than not since the road works at boggs lane started, it's that reopened yet? That really will be rubbish for traffic if its still going on next few days.)
(traffic this morning was actually pretty good, I had to drive as amongst other things, I need to pick the bike back up from the office, left late and arrived early which I wasn't expecting)
I think Bogs Lane is still closed, so yes that will make it worse.
If I do need to navigate into Harrogate I will be using two wheels (and probably the motorised variety!).
The show has been happening for years and doesn’t cause too many traffic problems. I’ve seen far worse traffic problems on a normal day
But its all going to change with the new bypass consultation that's going on. HBC have got a magic wand. Have any of you seen the latest video? The drone showing the proposed route fly's at right angles over the Ripley cycle route just below the Viaduct and out over the woods. Next shot its coming behind my house thats parallel to the cycle way and only 100m away and then across Bilton lane. Its not making any sense so may need to watch again when sober.
Well let's all just be glad that it's only ever Harrogate that is affected by public events, and the rest of the country never has anything like that that's worth starting a thread about. #FWP
Its never too bad for me but then I come in from Skipton way so the traffic flows well. It takes a bit longer to get home due to all the horse boxes / ice cream vans and old people doing 30mph though.
the rest of the country never has anything like that that’s worth starting a thread about
The rest of the country is rarely worth talking about.
Devash, isn't that Skipton everyday?
Yeah, Skipton to Harrogate.
Well traffic looked especially rubbish this morning. As best I could tell queuing from ferensby (possibly all the way to the a1 though lack of traffic cutting through suggests not) to forest Moor head by 8am.
I even got asked for a croggy by a driver.
We are going to this tomorrow.
Anybody got any tips on which way and at what time would be best to go.
We are travelling from Methley, Leeds
Take the train to Hornbeam Park hunter and walk up from there.
If you have to drive, just follow the queues and signs for parking.
Take the train to Hornbeam Park hunter and walk up from there.
The trains will be rammed from first train to about 10am, get there early. Same in the evening. I live in Leeds and commute to Harrogate by train. When the show is on I work from home.
If you're feeling flush, use the helicopter taxi from Leeds Bradford airport 😀
Free shuttle bus from town to the showground
The trains will be rammed from first train to about 10am
But it's only 30 minutes from Leeds - as long as you can get on the train it is bearable for that short distance. But I agree on walking - it really is a short walk and you can also use off road footpaths (which are also great cheeky trails BTW) to get there - just turn right on Hornbeam Park Avenue and walk to the end then turn left on the footpath just before you reach the St Michael's Hospice gates and walk through the woods, over the beck and it brings you out at the bottom end of the GYS fields then walk up the hill to the gates.
Show traffic is no problem to me since I switched start time 😃
7 am start - 3 pm finish means I miss show and school traffic on my way to and from Harlow Hill 🤗
Plus I have 2 weeks booked off in September to watch the worlds so don’t have to worry about that either
Harlow Hill? Whereabouts? Can't be far from me (nr the Whinney Lane roundabout).
I’m at beckwith knowle...
Does the entire of STW live in Harrogate?
Tomhoward
No busier than normally really this morning on the train from horsforth at 8, but 7 (yes 7) ticket enforcement officers at Hornbeam park just now as I'm heading back to Leeds. Not selling tickets mind you, just 'checking' you have one.
I have never seen any Northern staff there in 2 years of commuting until today!
Does the entire of STW live in Harrogate?
I don't think chips does. There's probably another one.
Does the entire of STW live in Harrogate?
There does seem to be more of us than I expected, it’s all the great road riding on the doorstep that does it 🤣
My wife bought a bike a few months ago.. Yeah, go figure.
She rides into town down the path from Harlow Carr through Valley Gardens, and back.
Should ride in, it's far easier than sitting in a queue down the Skipton Rd into Town..
She was told, by a local, that "don't park your bike at ASDA, it'll get nicked" seems a shame that people target bikes at a supermarket..
seems a shame that people target bikes at a supermarket..
Yup. There's a right and a wrong place to steal bikes.
Yup. There’s a right and a wrong place to steal bikes.
Indeed, you'd think waitroise at least.
Well we went yesterday and just decided to follow the show signs.
Got there without issue - traffic was no problem at all.
Got there around 10.30 and took us about 40 mins
Was a really good day
She rides into town down the path from Harlow Carr through Valley Gardens, and back.
Ahh, the footpaths...
Glad you had a good day and the traffic was fine.
I was out and about around Harrogate yesterday and I must admit the traffic seems far better this year.
Oh I don’t live in Harrogate anymore, and as of the end of the month I won’t work there anymore either. I’ve relocated to a much more aspirational area. South Leeds...
She was told, by a local, that “don’t park your bike at ASDA, it’ll get nicked” seems a shame that people target bikes at a supermarket..
I once had my bike locked there, and took my saddle/seatpost in with me, for security. Scrotes knicked the seat clamp... Harrogate ASDA is, I’m told, the crime hotspot of North Yorkshire.
So, has something interesting happened in Harrogate?
(I mean I'd read the thread, but, y'know. Harrogate. Got about three posts in.)
Nothing as interesting as what will be happening in September....