More cars about, are people 'over it'?

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I've just come back from a (essential!) shop and noticed way more cars on the road than when I went a last. My DH is a key worker and has said on his commute he has noticed this too. That every day it seems like the roads are getting busier.

Do you think people are getting restless and are going for drives? General people working? Or have you not noticed this?

I noticed this yesterday and today as well. I do an hour loop around our semi rural town on my bike each day as my exercise and there were significantly more cars about the last two days. I normally go out about 11ish so it's not as though it's the old rush hour times

How dare people leave their house

I've noticed that too over the past two days.

I haven't noticed personally, but my brother is a key worker who has an hour's drive into Central London each day (easy to park with parking bay fees lifted). He leaves home at 5:30am and drives home in what normally be the rush hour period. He's noticed a definite increase in traffic over the last ten days. Although he has also noticed drivers being stopped by the police, who seem to be checking whether their journeys are necessary.

I think it's a combination of people's supplies running low, needing to get essentials to others, being fed up so going to get less essential things from shops that remain open, needing to go to the office because the 3 weeks worth of work they took home has run out, if they are hr like me, I have to go in next week to run payroll and sort out furlough stuff, have to use desktop pc as it's specialist software. I actually think that to maintain a level of lockdown the government needs to ease restrictions a little eg garden centres, small shops, services like estate agents (lettings) and those who don't live full time with their partner to be considered a joint household unit if not specifically vulnerable. Oh and let us have picnics as family groups. Social distancing is for the long term so we need to make it manageable.

I go up to our yard to do our horses every evening and noticed the roads have slowly got busier over the last week or so - I go at the same time every day as we have a time slot to be on the yard. Still very, very quiet compared to normal though

Some businesses that immediately closed have reopened (the company I work for are exploring whether they can safely reopen), other local businesses have got delivery services up and running, people running out of food and. I delivery slots available so have to go shopping, the bus service has been slashed to pretty much nothing and whole routes stopped so more people driving.