M6 Major Works Junction 13 to Junction 15

staffordjas

staffordjas

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2 lanes of northbound M6 were being coned off for roadworks between J 12-13 about 9.30 pm last night approaching J13. Crawled in 2 miles of jams and I just managed to get past the cone lorry before it reached the slip road.Thought I was going to have to go up to J14 to get off
 
c0tt0nt0p

c0tt0nt0p

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I've been driving to work in Oldbury through Walsall for 9 years and theres always something going on...you just get used to it...next up will be when they replace the bridge that spans Junction 10 of the M6....
 
John Marwood

John Marwood

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c0tt0nt0p said:
Not required....most days it takes les than an hour to get to work, less to get home. Now we're in the summer holidays that will come down. Its all a world better than what it used to be like before Managed Motorways....
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Deepest Sympathies for being in Sandwell 40 hours a week
 
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EasMid

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More smart motorways. It'll be great when its finished. I'll be able to drive up lane 1 at over 70mph while all the to55ers stay in lane 2 & 3 at 50 or 60mph. All those millions spent & years of slow traffic during construction & you still see them pulling straight out into lane 2 when getting on southbound at J13 even though there's nothing in lane 1 as far as the eye can see. Smart motorways for dumb drivers ;)
 
Glam

Glam

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EasMid said:
More smart motorways. It'll be great when its finished. I'll be able to drive up lane 1 at over 70mph while all the to55ers stay in lane 2 & 3 at 50 or 60mph. All those millions spent & years of slow traffic during construction & you still see them pulling straight out into lane 2 when getting on southbound at J13 even though there's nothing in lane 1 as far as the eye can see. Smart motorways for dumb drivers ;)
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Welcome to Stafford Forum @EasMid . Some of us go straight into the 2nd lane, cos if there's a car broken down in the 1st, there's a bloody good chance there will be an accident, and we don't want be involved in it.
 
Noah

Noah

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Consistency would help, you've just come up a long section of motorway where you can only drive on the hard shoulder if you are told you can then suddenly at J13 you are on a section of motorway where you can drive on what used to be the hard shoulder unless you are told you can't.
 
Sarah B

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I got stuck on the M6 in Birmingham the other day because of a lorry fire and I missed a meeting I was supposed to attend.
 
c0tt0nt0p

c0tt0nt0p

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Noah said:
Consistency would help, you've just come up a long section of motorway where you can only drive on the hard shoulder if you are told you can then suddenly at J13 you are on a section of motorway where you can drive on what used to be the hard shoulder unless you are told you can't.
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The lanes are consistently marked ie solid white line for full hard shoulder, intermittent white lines for locations where you test it as a usual lane....
 
c0tt0nt0p

c0tt0nt0p

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Glam said:
Welcome to Stafford Forum @EasMid . Some of us go straight into the 2nd lane, cos if there's a car broken down in the 1st, there's a bloody good chance there will be an accident, and we don't want be involved in it.
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If ? Wouldn't you just react to the road conditions you encounter ?
 
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