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« on: August 14, 2010, 15:38:11 » |
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I'm mighty glad I'm not out on the roads today ... serious jams from our "travel watch" :  Just a couple of FGW▸ cancellations, and the traditional shortforms on Cardiff -> Portsmouth Meanwhile, on a street near me:  Is this the transport of the future as we run out of oil? |
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« Reply #1 on: August 14, 2010, 19:38:14 » |
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roads through cornwall were nightmare, fortunatly knowing all the back roads where i needed to go i was all good and avoided the jams, but A30 was stood solid from bodmin the whole way back to hayle east bound according to local radio, and A30 west bound was stood still from Penzance back beyond Camborne. i heard these on bbc radio cornwall so avoided A30 completely today
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« Reply #2 on: August 14, 2010, 22:14:01 » |
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All three lanes of the M5 motorway between Hele and Bradninch and Tiverton Parkway in the Taunton bound direction were crawling or at a standstill today as the 1225 ex Exeter Xcountry HST▸ I was on blasted by the gridlock.
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« Reply #3 on: August 14, 2010, 22:18:38 » |
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And I bet you allowed yourself a smug grin looking at the motorists crawling along the M5!
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« Reply #4 on: August 14, 2010, 22:39:51 » |
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m5 south at almonsbury interchange crawling all the way back to junction 13 when i was going north at 09.00 today,on my return south at about 10.30 a 45 minute journey took 2.5 hours f***ing caravans causing a lot of the traffic problems.
roll on september when the little oiks go back to school and the roads/trains are back to normal.
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« Reply #5 on: August 14, 2010, 22:47:10 » |
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Hmmm.
Mid August and the roads in the westcountry are busy. Who'd've thought it?
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« Reply #6 on: August 14, 2010, 23:17:01 » |
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And I bet you allowed yourself a smug grin looking at the motorists crawling along the M5!
I've even had that pleasure doing 75 on a 143  |
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« Reply #7 on: August 15, 2010, 04:30:07 » |
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Can 143s really do 75 ??  |
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« Reply #8 on: August 15, 2010, 05:13:25 » |
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Maybe down Welly Bank with the wind behind!
Designed maximum speed is 75 mph.
Question to those in the know - Do they often hit the max?
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« Reply #9 on: August 15, 2010, 06:17:28 » |
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f***ing caravans causing a lot of the traffic problems.
I remember John Turner doing a spectacular anti-caravan riff during summer Saturday traffic reports on Radio Bristol some years back. Always raised a smile (although not as much as Steve Yabsley's utterly surreal lunchtime show, sadly missed now I'm no longer in the area!) Designed maximum speed is 75 mph.
Question to those in the know - Do they often hit the max?
Yes. Shortly before hitting the beach after they've been dropped off a cliff. |
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« Reply #10 on: August 15, 2010, 07:07:37 » |
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Maybe down Welly Bank with the wind behind!
Designed maximum speed is 75 mph.
Question to those in the know - Do they often hit the max?
surprisingly if on correct diagram they will do the 75 |
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« Reply #11 on: August 15, 2010, 19:20:30 » |
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All three lanes of the M5 motorway between Hele and Bradninch and Tiverton Parkway in the Taunton bound direction were crawling or at a standstill today as the 1225 ex Exeter Xcountry HST▸ I was on blasted by the gridlock.
Shame the quiet coach air con was duff and the carriage had been filled with screaming children! |
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« Reply #12 on: August 16, 2010, 19:51:18 » |
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Maybe down Welly Bank with the wind behind!
Designed maximum speed is 75 mph.
Question to those in the know - Do they often hit the max?
surprisingly if on correct diagram they will do the 75 Defo between EXD» and Tivvy, they can even creep over 75...  |
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« Reply #13 on: August 16, 2010, 19:59:19 » |
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Wonder what they sound like from the wayside when passing at that speed..... eeeeeeeeeeyooooooorrrrrre. |
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