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I've been driving on Uk roads for 25 years and have yet to be charged for the privilege of being held in a 2 hour delay caused PURELY by management of a 10 mile toll road. And if we had to pay £100 for a return trip to Glasgow that got us there no quicker than before there would be outrage.

You're lucky you don't do Calais so have all the Rouen and Angers rubbish, not to mention the queuing at that terminal. Since you're experienced on the roads of France do you have an opinion on their 'warning' messages that appear on the visual display above the road? Personally, I think...

I take it you don't travel in peak season, i.e. end July / start and end August? If French roads are so good how come they frequently cut through / the edge of major towns and cities? You can bomb up to Scotland from the south, and I don't recall getting involved with Manchester? Birmingham is...

No I wasn't in Paris NE Gull. Some other points of note: 1. I have nothing against French people but their traffic management and road design is dodgy. When you exit an A road you typically have minimal slip road with a 90 degree turn about 30 yards after coming off, so a very rapid braking...

This traffic jam took motorists off roads that were moving and put them in section of peage that had been completely full for hours, presumably to make money on a busy holiday Saturday. A simple '16k queue on A29' in the preceding 50 miles would have avoided disaster for thousands of motorists...

Yesterday i was driving the family back from the Vendee. As the French so often do, they route a main 'motorway' through, rather than round town so we'd already lost an hour at Angers and getting near Rouen town centre. The bridge over the river we needed in Rouen has been shut for some months...