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Cherskiy · Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 9:22 pm Post subject: Name the worst road in the UK

Been on seven of the top ten - whoever came up with this list wants to try and drive on the Kingston Park-Dinnington road just north of Newcastle (old mineworkings below are constantly causing subsidence - it's like driving on a water bed!).

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/6398151.stm

Anyone care to name their 'favourites'? Smile

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mark occomore · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 9955 Location: UK

M25 isn't mentioned Shocked

See some of the bad roads around Sussex. When it gets to the end of the year the councils start to repair them to see if they can use the money or they will not get the same fund for again.

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The A14 in Cambridgeshire, regular accidents/gridlock but this is more often than not down to people driving like dickheads.

Lord Evan Elpuss · Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 3415 Location: Cloud Cuckoo Land

Any road the council have put carbunckles / 'molehills' and other trash on in the name of 'traffic calming'. Evil or Very Mad

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Highlander · Joined: 12 Feb 2007 Posts: 348 Location: Scotland

The A9 Perth to Inverness road is notoriously dangerous. All the Reps flying up and down. Single then Dual then single again for 100 miles. The rule is never find yourself at the front of queue as you might have some idiot pull out head on. Its one road where its safest to behind a lorry!
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Cherskiy · Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 6:54 am Post subject:

Highlander · Joined: 12 Feb 2007 Posts: 348 Location: Scotland

Yes the trucks are restricted. However, the delivery trucks to Tesco's etc in Inverness can go even slower adding to the frustrations. The views from the A9 are spectacular but losing you concentration of the traffic for a second can be fatal. If only more of these delivery containers could be put on trains.

As you enter the Highland Region the road sign read:-

" Welcome to the Highlands of Scotland

Ceud Mile Failte!
(A Hundred Thousand Welcomes)

Frustration kills - allow overtaking"

ie Hello!, but watch out! Confused

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Cherskiy · Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 12:28 pm Post subject:

Behind Geddon's Wall · Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 1:00 pm Post subject:

No mention of the A15 from its junction with the M180 to Lincoln, Not so much a road, more a dirt track
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John W · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 3367 Location: Warwickshire, UK

Yeah,

that stretch of the M6 between junctions 5 and 6 NE of Birmingham is a total mess. It's an elevated section much of way, i.e. it's on stilts as it goes through Castle Bromwich and Gravelly Hill, spaced about 20 metrres apart, so it's like 5 km of giant rumble strips you bump along loudly up to spaghetti junction, everybody gets alarmed and slows down to about 40 miles an hour and at rush hour it's gridlocked as people queue to get on the Aston Expressway into town - there is just ONE lane merging onto the expressway.

They 'repair' that section of the M6 every couple of years one lane at a time and by the time they've finished they find that the inside lane has sunk again so repairs have to start again. It goes on forever.

I've driven in USA a lot and many of their city approach highways are elevated and do not have this problem.

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Ella Sailyour · Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 579 Location: Marbella, Spain

The widening work on the M1 between J10 and J8 is a complete nightmare these days. And a complete waste of my taxes, as well. Instead of driving in lanes 2 and 3, people will be driving in lanes 3 and 4 once it's completed.

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Cherskiy · Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 5:11 pm Post subject:

The A82 Glasgow-Inverness road, between Tarbet and Inverarnan at the top end of Loch Lomond and before Crianlarich. This 'main' road (the major trunk road from Glasgow to the West Highlands) is a complete disgrace... narrow, vertical rock faces on one side, steep drop into the loch on the other, 'temporary' traffic lights installed years ago at one particular bottleneck and still there today - I travel along this road maybe three or four times a year and regret it every time. With the number of tour buses in summer, and artics all year round, its amazing there hasn't been complete chaos when two of these behemoths collide with each other on one of the blind corners (the white lines down the middle of the road are simply for show - there's no way big stuff can avoid drifting over onto the other side of the carriageway!).

The Scottish Executive seem to have money to burn when it comes to bridges and new road projects - yet this main artery seems to be denied funding. Have the politicians in Edinburgh forgot it's there?
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