Thehooperman
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From where I live to where I work. If the A5 or M6 is bad this cuts out most of the hold ups.
Ah ok, you need a link road from M54 to M6 then
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From where I live to where I work. If the A5 or M6 is bad this cuts out most of the hold ups.
Have some faith!Just what we need *sigh* ....
Coupled with the inattention or plain incompetence of the control room staff.It's the drivers lack of common sense (in most occasions) that worries me for than anything...
It's the drivers lack of common sense (in most occasions) that worries me for than anything...
It's much more comfortable to drive knowing that you can rely on a hard shoulder, should something untoward occur - even on a rural, single-carriageway main road.
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Maybe they should be a bit less variable..... they actually cause more of it by varying the speed limits within a few hundred yards of each other, 40,50,60, 40, 60, 50, 60 , 40......causes a concertina effect by people constantly breaking, speeding up then the breaking ....
I would disagree... They are not perfect but in the years before they were installed on the way into Brum on the M6 you would always have traffic building up to Hilton park services and then be forced to tip toe for miles."They were created to ease congestion, using computers to monitor the roads and change speed limits".
My commute to work as well as visiting customers up and down the M6, these "Smart motorways" DO NOT ease congestion.....they actually cause more of it by varying the speed limits within a few hundred yards of each other, 40,50,60, 40, 60, 50, 60 , 40......causes a concertina effect by people constantly breaking, speeding up then the breaking....so many times I've seen accidents caused by this...
I would disagree... They are not perfect but in the years before they were installed on the way into Brum on the M6 you would always have traffic building up to Hilton park services and then be forced to tip toe for miles.
Maybe they should be a bit less variable.
I've started making a weekly trip from Baswich to Edgbaston early Thursday evenings, to get there for 8:00 - a journey that initially filled me with dread to the extent that I've been setting off between 6:00 and 6:30 in case there's problems. But it's been fine on all 4 occasions. No holdups except for the couple of times I went via the M5, but you sort of expect that. So in my admittedly limited experience, whatever changes they've made seem to have been fine.
But I take your point that the speed limits may be a bit too variable. Maybe scrap the 60mph limit and hold them at 50mph instead. (Last night's trip was manic at times.)
There's only either sense or nonsense.When does common sense become uncommon, or rare?
There's only either sense or nonsense.
Well I can only speak as I find it. I leave Stafford most mornings during the week at 7.55am and get to junction 7 (Perry Barr) to loop back into the M5 at around 8.45....True, most days it's still very much the same.....if you're not past J10 by 0705hrs then your screwed for the next 2 hours trying to get past J6
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