Cheshire Cat
The most curious thing..
I always use the M40 toll road. It is always worth the cost to avoid the misery blot that is Birmingham.
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[Travel] Never ending roadworks
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Peacehaven Wild Kids
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I’ve got this stuck in my head now to the tune of ‘Withdean to Wembley/Rotterdam”
I’m not even pissed
As a regular user of the Motorways between home and the Amex (M6,M5,M40,M25,M23) it’s usually plain sailing other than the M25 around the M3 turn off going and Heathrow coming home. Unfortunately there isn’t an alternative to using the M25 otherwise I would.
Did they deliberately pick the school holidays so the carnage would be less?
scooter1
How soon is now?
Apparently Old Shoreham Rd will be closed westbound from tomorrow for 4 days for resurfacing, but where the signs are placed is new already. Does anyone actually know which bit will be closed?
Anger
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- Jul 21, 2017
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thedonkeycentrehalf
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- Jul 7, 2003
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Looking at the one network website, it is only showing lane closures between West Hove and Southwick.
Shropshire Seagull
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Does that connect to the M6 toll road somewhere, or the M42?
#newoneonme
Cheshire Cat
The most curious thing..
I tend to get lost around Birmingham every time - can't imagine why.
studio150
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And the next question, when was the last time you saw anyone working on these roadworks.
Leekbrookgull
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Each to their own on this but when travelling from north Staffordshire to Sx and return tend to leave at 9pm and arrive at around 1-1-30 am both ways mileage is about 240 and so few HGV/coach traffic, suits us.
Machiavelli
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I opened up this thread and wondered why everyone wasn't getting excited about the delayed gratification of pothole-free roads courtesy of never-ending roadworks.It's not as if there's roadworks everywhere. Lots of roads have potholes instead
Sirnormangall
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- Sep 21, 2017
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And if you get through there to head north up Falmer Road you’ll be held up by the “pavement “ works at Longhill school - they’re not roadworks because they’re doing nothing to the road - they are digging up the pavement which seems to necessitate closing off one lane of the road, a road which has already had more than half a dozen other lane closures in the past 12 months. I wish I had the balls to complain to the workforce but I wouldn’t want to interrupt them while they’re looking at their phones.
The Newhaven to Kingston road’s going to be rather busy.
Peacehaven Wild Kids
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Probably yes, it’ll still be shite for the regulars though. Personally I only need to get to the Marina so Beddingham isn’t an option but I can get the bus and subsequent bus lane.
"Pavement works" at Worthing station causing carnage.
They are just re-laying the pavement (which was one of the better pavement surfaces in Worthing) and sticking in a few trees. The pavement closure has resulted in a pedestrian walkway but they still allow parking on south side of the road. Closed the "out of town" bus stop so all buses in both directions now stop outside the station. When a bus stops, no room for other vehicles to pass so a blue light ambulance was stuck in the queue behind a bus last Thursday.
The councils keep claiming to be skint. But not when it comes to pointless, cosmetic vanity projects it would appear.
Solid at the back
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If you live in Peacehaven or Saltdean and need to use your car for work, your kind of screwed this week. Not only temp traffic lights at Rottingdean, some bright spark has decided to put some at Kwik Fit in Newhaven too
- Aug 24, 2020
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Some years ago, I read that when you see an uptick in roadworks in March, it will be because councils want to spend their remaining budgets set aside for
roadworks, before the end of financial year*.
I don't know if the same applies to motorways and highways etc.
* pothole repairs are presumably not included in any planned or forecast expenditure and are therefore chucked over the fence into the next tax year.
roadworks, before the end of financial year*.
I don't know if the same applies to motorways and highways etc.
* pothole repairs are presumably not included in any planned or forecast expenditure and are therefore chucked over the fence into the next tax year.