I'm beginning to really dislike motorway driving in the south of England. During one of our recent trips we were driving north along the M23 towards the M25.
A warning sign said 'M25, Long Delays between Junction 3 and Junction 29'. WTF, that's virtually the whole length of the motorway, with long delays.
Now I'm not always convinced that the warning signs are very accurate but I was in no mood to take a chance so we took the next exit off the M23 and headed cross country.
The cross country roads were trouble free and we finished the journey without problem. Thank god for sat navs is all I can say.
On the way back home the other day we saw warning signs stating that the A1 was totally closed near Peterborough. As I marginally prefer the A1 to the M1 we had to change our route quickly. I remembered that I'd seen a route north leaving the M1 at Junction 21a and taking the A46 to rejoin the A1 at Newark, higher up, so that's what we did.
What a good route. Apart from some road works which will soon be finished, very fast.
I find the M1 terrifying and the M25 even worse.
ReplyDeleteOn our regular trips to France we see so much really awful driving and risk-taking on the UK roads that it's a wonder there aren't twice as many people killed. I can't help thinking that the Brits have excellent driving skills - you have to have in order to avoid all the nutters and numpties and stay out of trouble. The French are sloppy drivers I think but their motorways are a joy to drive on, mostly because they're so empty compared to ours.
God help us if they increase the speed limit to 80 - not sure if that's just a rumour - I hope so.
In terms of risk taking I'd have to say that, in my experience, the French are much worse and Brits have to have much better driving skills because our roads are much more crowded. Like you I agree that French motorways are a joy basically because they are so much less crowded.
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