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From: Mike P on 30 Nov 2009 04:36
On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 19:50:14 +0000, Adrian grumbled:

> Silk <me(a)privacy.net> gurgled happily, sounding much like they were
> saying:
>
>>> Yes - negotiated every one of them (including Glasgow's Kingston
>>> Bridge - though it was more than 30 years ago), except "Five Ways
>>> Junction", Birmingham.
>
>> Five Ways is the big roundabout at the end of the A456 into Birmingham
>> from the West. Where it joins Broad Street.
>
> This one?
> http://snurl.com/tfvez
>
> WTFs so scary about that?

Nothing whatsoever other than my mad aunt who used to live close it it.

Mike P
From: Keith on 30 Nov 2009 13:19
On 30 Nov 2009 at 9:35, Mike P wrote:
> I've driven all of them. I'd say Hangar Lane is the worst out of that
> lot. Even then, it's only a big roundabout and I can't see anything scary
> about it. People should just learn to drive.

I'm not sure I'd use the word scary, but it's certainly frequently
/stressful/ driving on ring roads, gyratories, complicated series of
A-road intersections and the like if you're not familiar with the
layout.

The main reason for this is that the associated road signing is
generally appalling.

Even if you have a basic idea ("I want to go straight through the first
intersection, then go right a bit further on"), the signs advertising
the correct lanes to achieve this are almost always placed too late to
be useful, so unless you're a local who knows how the lane system works
you have no choice but to guess and hope.

Inveitably, sometimes you end up in the wrong lane and have to cut into
the correct lane, as most other drivers will be fuckheads who'll try to
block you out unless you force your way in.

Yes, stressful.

From: Adrian on 30 Nov 2009 13:26
Keith <keith(a)mailinator.com> gurgled happily, sounding much like they were
saying:

> The main reason for this is that the associated road signing is
> generally appalling.

Doesn't exactly apply to Hangar Lane.

http://maps.google.com/maps?
sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=59.206892,135.263672&ll=51.528838,-0.292581&z=14&layer=c&cbll=51.528945,-0.292597&cbp=12,0,,0,5
From: Dr Zoidberg on 2 Dec 2009 12:27
Mr Pounder wrote:
> "Dr Zoidberg" <AlexNOOO!!!!!!@drzoidberg.co.uk> wrote in message
>>> M5/M6 intersection
>> Eh?
>> It's almost stationary most of the time.
>> The only tricky part is M6 heading north turning off onto the M5 where the
>> traffic coming on from the last junction and going onto the M6 gets in
>> your way and the slip road effectively becomes L1 of the M5
>
> That is easy, I was there yesterday
>
It depends on how cooperative those people joining are.
If they want to be arses and it's busy there's not always much space to
get across.

--
Alex

"I laugh in the face of danger, then I hide until it goes away"
From: Andreas Tschoeke on 4 Dec 2009 02:03
The scariest road for me ist the A90 through Aberdeen.

I regularly spend my holidays in Scotland for over 30 years now, but I
never got accustomed to the sheer number of roundabouts on that rather
short distance.

10 years ago I decided to circumvent Aberdeen altogether, because that
strip of road caused real headaches for me.

Beeing a big city, Aberdeen drivers are not very forgiving concerning
stressed continetal drivers, especially when commuter traffic stes
off ;-)

I more than once got lost on some middle lane and it took me several
'round abouts' to leave where I originally intended to.

Andreas
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