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Post by felonious on Sept 8, 2017 19:15:15 GMT
Just driven over it between 16 and 17 and there's not a single car on the northbound section. The A34 is chocka going into Congleton. Thank the Lord I know all the back roads or I'd have been out all night trying to get back home.
This new safe motorway they've been creating for the last two years must have caused so many accidents. |
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Post by scfcwebby on Sept 8, 2017 19:18:16 GMT
Just driven over it between 16 and 17 and there's not a single car on the northbound section. The A34 is chocka going into Congleton. Thank the Lord I know all the back roads or I'd have been out all night trying to get back home.
This new safe motorway they've been creating for the last two years must have caused so many accidents. Serious crash apparently including corrosive liquid so closed pretty much from 16 to 18 meaning Sandbach, Congleton, Holmes Chapel, Knutsford etc were not moving at all and then a horse box over turned on the A556 meaning even more carnage on an already fooked stretch of road! |
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Post by felonious on Sept 8, 2017 19:20:23 GMT
Just driven over it between 16 and 17 and there's not a single car on the northbound section. The A34 is chocka going into Congleton. Thank the Lord I know all the back roads or I'd have been out all night trying to get back home.
This new safe motorway they've been creating for the last two years must have caused so many accidents. Serious crash apparently including corrosive liquid so closed pretty much from 16 to 18 meaning Sandbach, Congleton, Holmes Chapel, Knutsford etc were not moving at all and then a horse box over turned on the A556 meaning even more carnage on an already fooked stretch of road! I heard on the radio. 18 to 19 again and on a Friday.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-41205782
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Post by scfcwebby on Sept 8, 2017 19:22:58 GMT
Serious crash apparently including corrosive liquid so closed pretty much from 16 to 18 meaning Sandbach, Congleton, Holmes Chapel, Knutsford etc were not moving at all and then a horse box over turned on the A556 meaning even more carnage on an already fooked stretch of road! I heard on the radio. 18 to 19 again and on a Friday.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-41205782
Sorry I meant 16 to 19, accident between 18 and 19 but it said on radio at about 5.30 that they had closed 16 Northbound because of that accident, presumably to try and ease things further down? |
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Post by supersimonstainrod on Sept 8, 2017 19:47:50 GMT
Just driven over it between 16 and 17 and there's not a single car on the northbound section. The A34 is chocka going into Congleton. Thank the Lord I know all the back roads or I'd have been out all night trying to get back home.
This new safe motorway they've been creating for the last two years must have caused so many accidents. This new safe motorway that creates an extra lane by utilising what was the hard shoulder,consequently if your car breaks down in future,unless you're lucky enough to be close to one of the refuge areas you may well find yourself stranded on the carriageway itself,as I saw some poor sod t'other night on the M5. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2017 20:15:00 GMT
The roads in this country are a nightmare. Honestly though, until we a way of penalising more incidents of poor driving nothing will change. Even things like old people going 35mph on slip lanes then stopping are a recipe for disaster.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2017 20:18:45 GMT
Absolutely dread matchdays drive down the m6
Don't even bother midweek night matches
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Post by Timmypotter on Sept 8, 2017 22:06:54 GMT
All the lanes around Knutsford were mental this evening and there were artics everywhere going down roads they really shouldn't be on. I got very lucky on my short stretch of the A34 from Siddington to Marton - a Stobart truck was limping along with what must have been miles of traffic behind. I managed to just get out in front of him and had a clear run for 3 miles before i get back on the back lanes through north rode.
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Post by Northy on Sept 9, 2017 5:48:27 GMT
it was mental around Northwich again and all the villages around, my Mrs works in Holmes Chapel and it took 1 1/2 hours to get home, she didnt even do the friday evening supermarket shop on the way home !
a lady i know said it took 1 hr 45mins to get from comberbach to jct 18 at middlewich to get on the m6 to head to London.
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Post by Northy on Sept 9, 2017 5:51:26 GMT
The roads in this country are a nightmare. Honestly though, until we a way of penalising more incidents of poor driving nothing will change. Even things like old people going 35mph on slip lanes then stopping are a recipe for disaster. I was stuck on the m1 earlier in the week, in the roadworks section where they are making it smart motorway (2 1/2 years now) 3 lorries had hit each other. |
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Post by Dutchpeter on Sept 9, 2017 6:26:46 GMT
The roads in this country are a nightmare. Honestly though, until we a way of penalising more incidents of poor driving nothing will change. Even things like old people going 35mph on slip lanes then stopping are a recipe for disaster. I was stuck on the m1 earlier in the week, in the roadworks section where they are making it smart motorway (2 1/2 years now) 3 lorries had hit each other. We now have the sight on the smart motorways of artics three abreast. I know they're important but they should only be allowed to use lane 1&2. What's the point of a smart motorway if artics are creating bottlenecks? |
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Post by Northy on Sept 9, 2017 6:31:15 GMT
I was stuck on the m1 earlier in the week, in the roadworks section where they are making it smart motorway (2 1/2 years now) 3 lorries had hit each other. We now have the sight on the smart motorways of artics three abreast. I know they're important but they should only be allowed to use lane 1&2. What's the point of a smart motorway if artics are creating bottlenecks? thats a good point, and along with the wankers in cars who refuse to use the inside lane, or some still sotting in the 3rd lane, whats the point of spending billions to creat 4 lanes then these tossers keep it at 2. use cameras and ban the fookers off motorways |
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Post by woodstein on Sept 9, 2017 7:13:26 GMT
I can guarantee that everyday Radio 2's daytime traffic news mentions incidents between Stoke and Sandbach on the M6.
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Post by penkvillepotter on Sept 9, 2017 7:31:57 GMT
Tell me, took the best of 3 hours to get home from Liverpool last night. Never thought it would involve Astbury and Biddulph but there you go.
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Post by 3putts on Sept 9, 2017 8:20:14 GMT
I never go near the m6 on a Friday its always a nightmare. But until the police and authorities wake up to the fact that it is not speed but bad driving that causes these accidents,nothing will change.
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Post by raythesailor on Sept 9, 2017 9:29:22 GMT
I was in Stafford when Radio Stoke announced the accident within a few short miniute of it happening.
Almost immediately traffic was streaming off the motorway, and I have been told that the N bound lane was at a standstill aprox25/30 miles south of the incident within miniutes .
The M6 has become the road to hell.
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Post by Bojan Mackey on Sept 9, 2017 10:31:46 GMT
The worst road in Britain, it's a living hell, and every time I see that "We're upgrading to a smart motorway" sign I want to get out and take a chainsaw to the bastard.
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Post by elystokie on Sept 9, 2017 10:56:28 GMT
I never go near the m6 on a Friday its always a nightmare. But until the police and authorities wake up to the fact that it is not speed but bad driving that causes these accidents,nothing will change. I never go near the M6 full stop if I can help it, had a gutful when I was in the RN and there wasn't anywhere near as many vehicles on the road then. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 9, 2017 11:48:01 GMT
I was stuck on the m1 earlier in the week, in the roadworks section where they are making it smart motorway (2 1/2 years now) 3 lorries had hit each other. We now have the sight on the smart motorways of artics three abreast. I know they're important but they should only be allowed to use lane 1&2. What's the point of a smart motorway if artics are creating bottlenecks? On dual carriageways there should be a hell of a lot more sections where lorries are restricted to the inside lane. I've lost count of the number of times a lorry has overtaken another, taken 5mins or so to do so, and in the meantime caused a huge queue of 20 or 30 cars that would be driving 70+ but are restricted to 59 or whatever the lorry is going. If you think about it, for that lorry driver to spend 5mins less on the road, he's caused all the cars behind to spend a combined 1hr+ more on the road. Now multiply that for all the times it happens across the country on a daily basis and it all adds up to the outrageous congestion problems we suffer with on our little island. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 9, 2017 12:04:03 GMT
We now have the sight on the smart motorways of artics three abreast. I know they're important but they should only be allowed to use lane 1&2. What's the point of a smart motorway if artics are creating bottlenecks? On dual carriageways there should be a hell of a lot more sections where lorries are restricted to the inside lane. I've lost count of the number of times a lorry has overtaken another, taken 5mins or so to do so, and in the meantime caused a huge queue of 20 or 30 cars that would be driving 70+ but are restricted to 59 or whatever the lorry is going. If you think about it, for that lorry driver to spend 5mins less on the road, he's caused all the cars behind to spend a combined 1hr+ more on the road. Now multiply that for all the times it happens across the country on a daily basis and it all adds up to the outrageous congestion problems we suffer with on our little island. HGV vehicles need to be separate from commuter traffic end of. These guys make a living out of ignoring every common sense action on a road and no one gives a shit how many normal people die it seems as long as these cowboys can keep using the roads for their stupid antics. Supposed to be professional drivers but most wouldn't pass wind never mind a test. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 9, 2017 12:10:57 GMT
On dual carriageways there should be a hell of a lot more sections where lorries are restricted to the inside lane. I've lost count of the number of times a lorry has overtaken another, taken 5mins or so to do so, and in the meantime caused a huge queue of 20 or 30 cars that would be driving 70+ but are restricted to 59 or whatever the lorry is going. If you think about it, for that lorry driver to spend 5mins less on the road, he's caused all the cars behind to spend a combined 1hr+ more on the road. Now multiply that for all the times it happens across the country on a daily basis and it all adds up to the outrageous congestion problems we suffer with on our little island. HGV vehicles need to be separate from commuter traffic end of. These guys make a living out of ignoring every common sense action on a road and no one gives a shit how many normal people die it seems as long as these cowboys can keep using the roads for their stupid antics. Supposed to be professional drivers but most wouldn't pass wind never mind a test. To be fair I'd argue there's a lot of good lorry drivers about. The problem is, due to the nature of vehicle they drive, the few bad ones are exponentially more dangerous road users than a bad Nissan micra driver. |
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Post by Northy on Sept 9, 2017 14:15:39 GMT
The worst road in Britain, it's a living hell, and every time I see that "We're upgrading to a smart motorway" sign I want to get out and take a chainsaw to the bastard. Yep, all plans to widen it were in full swing in 1995, land being compulsory purchased off the landowners next to it, designs and specs getting done, contractors to bid, then in 1997 when Bliar came to power he cancelled it, that and the the link from Jct19 to the M56 (which has just been finished and opened), diverting money to spend on his London lot, the fookin wanker. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 9, 2017 14:17:30 GMT
HGV vehicles need to be separate from commuter traffic end of. These guys make a living out of ignoring every common sense action on a road and no one gives a shit how many normal people die it seems as long as these cowboys can keep using the roads for their stupid antics. Supposed to be professional drivers but most wouldn't pass wind never mind a test. To be fair I'd argue there's a lot of good lorry drivers about. The problem is, due to the nature of vehicle they drive, the few bad ones are exponentially more dangerous road users than a bad Nissan micra driver. My ex girlfriends dad was a truck driver that was 1974-1980 my wife's dad was a truck driver they were both abysmal drivers who should never have been allowed on a road never mind driving a truck. This small minority is rubbish it is the VAST majority of truck drivers that are idiots, the size of the vehicle has no bearing on driving up peoples arses because they want to maintain their speed, or overtaking at 1 mph faster hogging the middle lane casing absolute chaos. Like I said they should not be on the same road as car drivers especially novice car drivers. They live in a different world and use the size of the vehicle as an excuse for dangerous, bad driving on a daily basis and the road accident figures more than back up what I'm saying. Four lane Motorways two lanes for HGV two lanes for Cars and the accident figures would drop like a stone. So HGV lanes like bus lanes with no cars allowed and the same for the car lanes. |
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Post by chuffedstokie on Sept 9, 2017 15:00:22 GMT
On dual carriageways there should be a hell of a lot more sections where lorries are restricted to the inside lane. I've lost count of the number of times a lorry has overtaken another, taken 5mins or so to do so, and in the meantime caused a huge queue of 20 or 30 cars that would be driving 70+ but are restricted to 59 or whatever the lorry is going. If you think about it, for that lorry driver to spend 5mins less on the road, he's caused all the cars behind to spend a combined 1hr+ more on the road. Now multiply that for all the times it happens across the country on a daily basis and it all adds up to the outrageous congestion problems we suffer with on our little island. HGV vehicles need to be separate from commuter traffic end of. These guys make a living out of ignoring every common sense action on a road and no one gives a shit how many normal people die it seems as long as these cowboys can keep using the roads for their stupid antics. Supposed to be professional drivers but most wouldn't pass wind never mind a test. At the speed awareness course I went on there was a table of 5 HGV drivers and none of them had done anything wrong (in their opinion) strange that. They were God's gift to the road and all the problems were caused by everyone else. Work that one out. Offences in trucks and not their private motors. |
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Post by lawrieleslie on Sept 10, 2017 7:22:11 GMT
I never go near the m6 on a Friday its always a nightmare. But until the police and authorities wake up to the fact that it is not speed but bad driving that causes these accidents,nothing will change. I never go near the M6 full stop if I can help it, had a gutful when I was in the RN and there wasn't anywhere near as many vehicles on the road then. I lived in Leek for last six months in the mob and commuted every week from Plymouth. Always came off M5 at J6 and came though Kidderminster, Bridgenorth, Shifnal, Eccleshall and Stone to avoid M6. It added about 11 miles but was way quicker even on Friday afternoon. This was 14 years ago! |
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Post by elystokie on Sept 10, 2017 9:33:23 GMT
I never go near the M6 full stop if I can help it, had a gutful when I was in the RN and there wasn't anywhere near as many vehicles on the road then. I lived in Leek for last six months in the mob and commuted every week from Plymouth. Always came off M5 at J6 and came though Kidderminster, Bridgenorth, Shifnal, Eccleshall and Stone to avoid M6. It added about 11 miles but was way quicker even on Friday afternoon. This was 14 years ago! Tried that way myself a few times travelling up from Pompey but I tried all sorts of routes to be honest, that M5/M6 junction was just a total nightmare every Friday. The Highways Agency's finest moment for me came a couple of years ago when we'd set off from Cambs late one Friday evening to avoid the traffic only to find they'd shut the M1 totally and had masses of roadworks on the M6, ridiculous 'planning'. |
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Post by conzdad on Sept 10, 2017 11:23:29 GMT
Never drive down to games now (apart from night games).Leave the car in Manchester and get train down. M6 is a total nightmare.
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Post by Northy on Sept 11, 2017 7:56:29 GMT
I never go near the M6 full stop if I can help it, had a gutful when I was in the RN and there wasn't anywhere near as many vehicles on the road then. I lived in Leek for last six months in the mob and commuted every week from Plymouth. Always came off M5 at J6 and came though Kidderminster, Bridgenorth, Shifnal, Eccleshall and Stone to avoid M6. It added about 11 miles but was way quicker even on Friday afternoon. This was 14 years ago! know that route well, think we've all tried it a few times, used it when one of my lads went to Plymouth Uni recently and there was trouble on the M6 |
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Post by lawrieleslie on Sept 11, 2017 8:33:26 GMT
I lived in Leek for last six months in the mob and commuted every week from Plymouth. Always came off M5 at J6 and came though Kidderminster, Bridgenorth, Shifnal, Eccleshall and Stone to avoid M6. It added about 11 miles but was way quicker even on Friday afternoon. This was 14 years ago! know that route well, think we've all tried it a few times, used it when one of my lads went to Plymouth Uni recently and there was trouble on the M6 Where is your lads digs Northy? There's loads of new student accommodation being built in and around Plymouth. Seems every new development is student accom. The tallest building south of Bristol on North Cross by the station is such. Glad my two went through uni when it was £1000 a year as it must be a real crippler now. |
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Post by Northy on Sept 11, 2017 8:42:00 GMT
know that route well, think we've all tried it a few times, used it when one of my lads went to Plymouth Uni recently and there was trouble on the M6 Where is your lads digs Northy? There's loads of new student accommodation being built in and around Plymouth. Seems every new development is student accom. The tallest building south of Bristol on North Cross by the station is such. Glad my two went through uni when it was £1000 a year as it must be a real crippler now. He's finished now, working in Kuwait atm, his first digs were in the unite building opposite the Uni entrance, then had a shared house on North street. |
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