Highways Agency : NOT fit for purpose

Motorway road works that take years to finish, when they finish the works, they have found another problem and delay the works for a few years or more, total Muppetry of the highest order.
The M3 is now sort of finished, but they still have the average speed cameras for no valid reason, why ? To milk more money out of drivers .
Now the M5 to M6 fiasco, in both directions, an international highway up the duff for bridge repairs.
Then there is the over night road closures, which need to be done , but nobody is ever working, just miles of pointless cones.
Then the HA website , which is not accurate and up to date .
The UK road network is a joke, why is nobody never accountable for their actions and decisions for wasting tax payers money, to pay for road workers that never do any work, except drink tea, sweep the road, for health and safety have 12 men supervising the operation .

toby1234abc:
Motorway road works that take years to finish, when they finish the works, they have found another problem and delay the works for a few years or more, total Muppetry of the highest order.
The M3 is now sort of finished, but they still have the average speed cameras for no valid reason, why ? To milk more money out of drivers .
Now the M5 to M6 fiasco, in both directions, an international highway up the duff for bridge repairs.
Then there is the over night road closures, which need to be done , but nobody is ever working, just miles of pointless cones.
Then the HA website , which is not accurate and up to date .
The UK road network is a joke, why is nobody never accountable for their actions and decisions for wasting tax payers money, to pay for road workers that never do any work, except drink tea, sweep the road, for health and safety have 12 men supervising the operation .

Highways Agency hasn’t existed for a couple of years now…

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toby1234abc:
Motorway road works that take years to finish, when they finish the works, they have found another problem and delay the works for a few years or more, total Muppetry of the highest order.
The M3 is now sort of finished, but they still have the average speed cameras for no valid reason, why ? To milk more money out of drivers .
Now the M5 to M6 fiasco, in both directions, an international highway up the duff for bridge repairs.
Then there is the over night road closures, which need to be done , but nobody is ever working, just miles of pointless cones.
Then the HA website , which is not accurate and up to date .
The UK road network is a joke, why is nobody never accountable for their actions and decisions for wasting tax payers money, to pay for road workers that never do any work, except drink tea, sweep the road, for health and safety have 12 men supervising the operation .

Well said toby, absolutely boils my wee wee this. Especially the section between junctions 8 and 20 on the M60 at Manchester.

M5/m6 intersection & Jn 1-Jn2 a lot of work that’s only had remedial repairs over the years now needs totally refurbishing when was the last time you saw such a drastic closure of this section ?
Things wear out and eventually need to be repaired / updated / graded .

I’m using the that section of the network most nights and with all the night time clousers see upto and it’s very rarely upto an extra hour and that’s because some numpty is in a rush and causes a smash slowing traffic even more or having that i gotta be in front attitude.

Normally I take an extra 15 - 30 min on a trip and then that’s because of delay issues at the depot meaning I catch the clousers .

I’m not going to start on the section of the M1 that took 5 years to change to ‘smart’ motorway and is still being closed 18 months after its completion date.

Nor am I going to mention that they close motorways at 8pm when there’s a full football fixture list, which leads to thousands of extra vehicles trying to figure out mind boggling diversion signs and trundling through villages.

The A38 is also going to be left alone, despite various parts of it being randomly and repeatedly closed for the past two years.

I’m actually going to comment on the M62 which was closed in three different locations westbound and two others eastbound in one night. They’ve not even finished the J18-20 section before starting on the next bit. Who on earth plans these closures? Do they not look at the bigger picture? Silly question really, it’s blatantly obvious that they don’t.

Roymondo:

toby1234abc:
Motorway road works that take years to finish, when they finish the works, they have found another problem and delay the works for a few years or more, total Muppetry of the highest order.
The M3 is now sort of finished, but they still have the average speed cameras for no valid reason, why ? To milk more money out of drivers .
Now the M5 to M6 fiasco, in both directions, an international highway up the duff for bridge repairs.
Then there is the over night road closures, which need to be done , but nobody is ever working, just miles of pointless cones.
Then the HA website , which is not accurate and up to date .
The UK road network is a joke, why is nobody never accountable for their actions and decisions for wasting tax payers money, to pay for road workers that never do any work, except drink tea, sweep the road, for health and safety have 12 men supervising the operation .

Highways Agency hasn’t existed for a couple of years now…

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whats their official title now then,the muppets

Think yourself lucky,initially the highways agency wanted to close the M5 junction 1 to the M6 both north and south completely for 6 months,it was only because locals councils objected that they weren’t allowed to do it as it would of caused absolute grid lock on surrounding roads.
If your journey allows it consider using the toll road.

truckman020:

Roymondo:

toby1234abc:
Motorway road works that take years to finish, when they finish the works, they have found another problem and delay the works for a few years or more, total Muppetry of the highest order.
The M3 is now sort of finished, but they still have the average speed cameras for no valid reason, why ? To milk more money out of drivers .
Now the M5 to M6 fiasco, in both directions, an international highway up the duff for bridge repairs.
Then there is the over night road closures, which need to be done , but nobody is ever working, just miles of pointless cones.
Then the HA website , which is not accurate and up to date .
The UK road network is a joke, why is nobody never accountable for their actions and decisions for wasting tax payers money, to pay for road workers that never do any work, except drink tea, sweep the road, for health and safety have 12 men supervising the operation .

Highways Agency hasn’t existed for a couple of years now…

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whats their official title now then,the muppets

couldnt be calling them muppets when muppets are quite amusing to watch.
i think there called highays england now or something similar this week…hato fits the bill though the same as a vacuum cleaner is called a hoover…they chose the name highways agency and hato becase they couldnt find a sign big enough for the original name being uselessineptincompetentplobbingjobsworthsfatbokesin4x4jeepswannabeplodwazzocks :slight_smile:

Standard government funded fare in afraid, toss the job off for as long as possible while charging triple the amount, it’s all paid by the taxpayer after all.

McGurke:
Standard government funded fare in afraid, toss the job off for as long as possible while charging triple the amount, it’s all paid by the taxpayer after all.

Yup but all the work is contracted to private companies on contracts of varying terms, so there you go, due to their incompetence it is all being brought in house to see if it is managed better.
I can’t believe how many sprockets who use the road regularly don’t even know the name of the operator over 2 years after it changed.

truckman020:

Roymondo:

toby1234abc:
Motorway road works that take years to finish, when they finish the works, they have found another problem and delay the works for a few years or more, total Muppetry of the highest order.
The M3 is now sort of finished, but they still have the average speed cameras for no valid reason, why ? To milk more money out of drivers .
Now the M5 to M6 fiasco, in both directions, an international highway up the duff for bridge repairs.
Then there is the over night road closures, which need to be done , but nobody is ever working, just miles of pointless cones.
Then the HA website , which is not accurate and up to date .
The UK road network is a joke, why is nobody never accountable for their actions and decisions for wasting tax payers money, to pay for road workers that never do any work, except drink tea, sweep the road, for health and safety have 12 men supervising the operation .

Highways Agency hasn’t existed for a couple of years now…

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whats their official title now then,the muppets

That would be insulting muppets

dieseldog999:

truckman020:

Roymondo:

toby1234abc:
Motorway road works that take years to finish, when they finish the works, they have found another problem and delay the works for a few years or more, total Muppetry of the highest order.
The M3 is now sort of finished, but they still have the average speed cameras for no valid reason, why ? To milk more money out of drivers .
Now the M5 to M6 fiasco, in both directions, an international highway up the duff for bridge repairs.
Then there is the over night road closures, which need to be done , but nobody is ever working, just miles of pointless cones.
Then the HA website , which is not accurate and up to date .
The UK road network is a joke, why is nobody never accountable for their actions and decisions for wasting tax payers money, to pay for road workers that never do any work, except drink tea, sweep the road, for health and safety have 12 men supervising the operation .

Highways Agency hasn’t existed for a couple of years now…

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whats their official title now then,the muppets

couldnt be calling them muppets when muppets are quite amusing to watch.
i think there called highays england now or something similar this week…hato fits the bill though the same as a vacuum cleaner is called a hoover…they chose the name highways agency and hato becase they couldnt find a sign big enough for the original name being uselessineptincompetentplobbingjobsworthsfatbokesin4x4jeepswannabeplodwazzocks :slight_smile:

like it,lol

Toddy2:

truckman020:

Roymondo:

toby1234abc:
Motorway road works that take years to finish, when they finish the works, they have found another problem and delay the works for a few years or more, total Muppetry of the highest order.
The M3 is now sort of finished, but they still have the average speed cameras for no valid reason, why ? To milk more money out of drivers .
Now the M5 to M6 fiasco, in both directions, an international highway up the duff for bridge repairs.
Then there is the over night road closures, which need to be done , but nobody is ever working, just miles of pointless cones.
Then the HA website , which is not accurate and up to date .
The UK road network is a joke, why is nobody never accountable for their actions and decisions for wasting tax payers money, to pay for road workers that never do any work, except drink tea, sweep the road, for health and safety have 12 men supervising the operation .

Highways Agency hasn’t existed for a couple of years now…

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whats their official title now then,the muppets

That would be insulting muppets

that’s true,dieseldog999 said the muppets are amusing to watch,thats true also,but the highways people are quite amusing when you see them running about trying to sort traffic problems

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Senior Hull councillor Martin Mancey says he is “fed up” of apologising for Highways England.

toby1234abc:
Motorway road works that take years to finish, when they finish the works, they have found another problem and delay the works for a few years or more, total Muppetry of the highest order.
The M3 is now sort of finished, but they still have the average speed cameras for no valid reason, why ? To milk more money out of drivers .

The average speed cameras on the M3 have been switched off – all of them have a sign in front of them saying “Camera not in use”. They went off when the speed limit was lifted at the start of this month. Only exception is westbound at junction 2, where there are still works going on (and which had that speed limit for a few years before the roadworks started).

M1 southbound between j33 and Woodhall services down to 1 Lane from 9pm. Several miles of tailbacks on the M1 and M18. Northbound, two rolling roadblocks (yes, that’s FOUR police cars) between j28 and j33. Several miles of tailbacks after that too. Who the ■■■■ plans this?

But they do apologise for any inconvenience

xichrisxi:
Think yourself lucky,initially the highways agency wanted to close the M5 junction 1 to the M6 both north and south completely for 6 months,it was only because locals councils objected that they weren’t allowed to do it as it would of caused absolute grid lock on surrounding roads.
If your journey allows it consider using the toll road.

The toll road…for the M5?

Born Idle:

xichrisxi:
Think yourself lucky,initially the highways agency wanted to close the M5 junction 1 to the M6 both north and south completely for 6 months,it was only because locals councils objected that they weren’t allowed to do it as it would of caused absolute grid lock on surrounding roads.
If your journey allows it consider using the toll road.

The toll road…for the M5?

If you’re coming from Low enough down the M5 yes,across the M42 pick up M6 Toll brings you onto M6 the other side of Birmingham,it’s a 15-20 min detour but if the traffics bad enough it warrants it,most weekdays you’ll sit in the m5/m6 split traffic for a good hour or so.
Same if your going south on M6,jump on the toll down at jct 12 to M42,across M42 rejoin M5.

Of course this only works if your aim is to avoid Birmingham altogether

Wheelsonfire:
But they do apologise for any inconvenience

Even that which isn’t caused by them on a daily basis, but by car and truck drivers who’s lack of driving ability isn’t up to what they think it is.