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I'm mighty glad I'm not out on the roads today ... serious jams from our "travel watch" :
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Just a couple of FGW cancellations, and the traditional shortforms on Cardiff -> Portsmouth

Meanwhile, on a street near me:
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Is this the transport of the future as we run out of oil?

roads through cornwall were nightmare, fortunatly knowing all the back roads where i needed to go i was all good and avoided the jams, but A30 was stood solid from bodmin the whole way back to hayle east bound according to local radio, and A30 west bound was stood still from Penzance back beyond Camborne. i heard these on bbc radio cornwall so avoided A30 completely today

All three lanes of the M5 motorway between Hele and Bradninch and Tiverton Parkway in the Taunton bound direction were crawling or at a standstill today as the 1225 ex Exeter Xcountry HST I was on blasted by the gridlock.

And I bet you allowed yourself a smug grin looking at the motorists crawling along the M5!

m5 south at almonsbury interchange crawling all the way back to junction 13 when i was going north at 09.00 today,on my return south at about 10.30 a 45 minute journey took 2.5 hours f***ing caravans causing a lot of the traffic problems.
roll on september when the little oiks go back to school and the roads/trains are back to normal.

Hmmm.

Mid August and the roads in the westcountry are busy. Who'd've thought it?

I've even had that pleasure doing 75 on a 143  ;D

Can 143s really do 75 ??  :o ;D

Maybe down Welly Bank with the wind behind!

Designed maximum speed is 75 mph.

Question to those in the know - Do they often hit the max?

I remember John Turner doing a spectacular anti-caravan riff during summer Saturday traffic reports on Radio Bristol some years back. Always raised a smile (although not as much as Steve Yabsley's utterly surreal lunchtime show, sadly missed now I'm no longer in the area!)


Yes. Shortly before hitting the beach after they've been dropped off a cliff.

surprisingly if on correct diagram they will do the 75

Shame the quiet coach air con was duff and the carriage had been filled with screaming children!

Defo between EXD and Tivvy, they can even creep over 75...  :-X

Wonder what they sound like from the wayside when passing at that speed.....


eeeeeeeeeeyooooooorrrrrre.  ;D