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Cherskiy



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PostPosted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 9:22 pm    Post subject: Name the worst road in the UK Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 9:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 9:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The A14 in Cambridgeshire, regular accidents/gridlock but this is more often than not down to people driving like dickheads.
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 10:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Any road the council have put carbunckles / 'molehills' and other trash on in the name of 'traffic calming'. Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 11:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 6:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Highlander wrote:
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!


Yes, I've travelled the A9 quite a bit over the last few years. The bit between Kingussie and Carrbridge seems to be the worst in my experience - too many sweeping bends and not enough straight sections (although people still try to overtake even though they haven't really got the sightline or power to manage it safely). Doesn't it have a 40mph speed limit for trucks? That doesn't help calm the frustrations of reps, etc., either, when they're stuck behind a frozen fish wagon heading up to Kinlochbervie at 40mph for countless miles before the next section of dual.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 9:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 12:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Highlander wrote:
Frustration kills - allow overtaking"


I wish the guy who decided to speed up as I was overtaking him just south of Dalwhinnie a few months ago had read and understood that sign.... d*ckhead! Rolling Eyes

Now that you come to mention it, you're right about the Tesco wagons, Highlander - imagine what the A9 must be like north of Tain now there's a store at Wick!
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 1:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 1:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 7:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 5:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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