M6 north from Hilton Park Services all the way up to Thelwall and beyond on a Friday afternoon, ‘SLOW 40’ .What for FFS? There’s nothing to slow down for.
ACCIDENT SLOW or CAUTION - PEDESTRIANS IN ROAD. No there’s not, its some Johnny Rep in a Mondeo/Corolla/Signum with his suit jacket hung up in the back standing around on the hard shoulder with his phone to his ear waiting for the AA/RAC to come and change a flat tyre and everyone slowing down to have a good look! Wouldn’t it be better to display ITS SOME KNOB WITH A FLAT TYRE STOP BEING NOSEY.
M60 J9 TO J18 LONG DELAYS. Really? Thanks but I’ve just got on the M5 at Exeter.
STOKE J16 60 MILES 30 MINS. Ok then. I haven’t got Emerald Isle number plates.
SUCH AN EVENT THIS WEEKEND - EXPECT DELAYS. Why? Will the barmaid at my local be already pulling a pint?
FOR TRAFFORD CENTRE LEAVE AT J9. No chance! The 20 minute a day drivers in their little Clio’s with the ‘powered by fairy dust’ sticker on the boot don’t know what a junction is. It should read LOOK LUV, GO TO THE NEXT BIT OF ROAD WHERE YOU CAN GET OFF AND THERE’S LOADS OF SPACES THERE.
DON’T TAKE DRUGS AND DRIVE. Someone is on drugs with the stupid information on the matrix.
Friday night 1.30am southbound A1 2miles short of the Boroughbridge turn off, Matrix signs showing queue ahead? Gets to about 1/2 a mile from the junction and there’s a car in lane 3 southbound pointing northbound(stationary)! Surely it would have been easy to say lane three closed accident!
Have you lot not seen the sign that says= “Is your car ready for winter”.The governments advice is to pack three days of food,just in case you are buried under a ten foot high snow drift.
Big jase, I don’t know if you’re still around, but you say that with all this technology, the roads are better.
In the sixties I used to travel regularly between West ■■■■■■■ and South Wales. The journey used to take 4 - 5 hours. Now, on our “better, hi-tech roads” it takes at least seven hours.
This is better?
Emmerson2, about twenty years ago, my run was Dover to Carlisle, via Exhall (Coventry), Wigan, Lancaster, Penrith. I know that coaches were allowed in outside lane and limited to 70 mph (ish) but I could not do that run today legally. Its volume of traffic that has made the most difference I think.
What’s the most useless information you’ve seen? The Realtime Traffic Info matrix signs on the A40 are so crap it’s fun to predict what drivel will be displayed before you get to them; “Think Bike”, “Oxfordshire Car share”, “Watch for cyclists” (when they should be on the cycle track". The only traffic info I think they’ve given recently was telling people which park and ride to use for Oxford University Open days. That, and yesterday when the road was closed, the sign at Eynsham was so helpfully telling people that the road was closed BEHIND THEM.
Like so many other things, if it usually has irrelevant info. the odds are you will ignore it when there is something important on it. Would be more effective if it only displayed what was neccesary and nothing else.
The next thing HA will be using them for advertising to get some dosh in the kitty.
those people called FOG,ICE,SNOW & ACCIDENT seem to get around a lot, and they must drive at speed too…as they are always seem to told to slow down on matrix signs, yet to see my name on the board
funniest was on the A14 westbound just after orwell bridge(the other signs still dont work) it said "orwell bridge closed then it said a date which was 2 weeks ago…and the favorite is how many miles and how long it takes to get to cambridge.strange the sign time very arely changes even when the A14 has delays
