From: Bod on
Looks like there's a lot of timid motorists out there.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8382506.stm

Bod
From: Conor on
In article <7nae5dF3ku3orU1(a)mid.individual.net>, Bod says...
>
> Looks like there's a lot of timid motorists out there.
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8382506.stm
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> Bod

Never been round Marble Arch but the other two, there's nothing to get
worked up about other than they can be busy and you need to pay
attention to the signs if you don't know where you need to be going.

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From: Silk on
On 27/11/2009 16:47, Bod wrote:
> Looks like there's a lot of timid motorists out there.
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8382506.stm

It never ceases to amaze me how people are so poor at assessing risk on
the road. Spaghetti Junction, like most motorway junctions, is probably
one of the safest parts of the whole UK road network statistically.
People tend to concentrate more when they have more to think about.

I know plenty of people who risk their lives on twisty back roads in
order to avoid far safer motorways.
From: Conor on
In article <7nak5fF3klh53U4(a)mid.individual.net>, Adrian says...

> I can only really think of one junction that I expect fuckwittery on -
> A1081/A414 roundabout, top end of the London Colney dual carriageway up
> from Jn22 of the M25.
>
> I dunno what it is, but something about that roundabout just causes
> people to completely ignore the (clear) lane markings. Even then...
> Scary? No. Not if you're awake, anyway.
>
Done that plenty of times in a Howdens Kitchens wagon. There's a DHL RDC
which is accessed via that junction and the shitty B road going off the
southern roundabout.




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Conor
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From: Silk on
On 27/11/2009 19:26, JNugent wrote:

> 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.