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Derby Tup Jul 2022 10:23pm, 16 Jul 2022 56,186 posts	Quote Pin Derby Tup Computers, passwords, web-sites and fucking email
Hunkyteddy Jul 2022 9:35am, 17 Jul 2022 6,901 posts	Quote Pin Hunkyteddy I think they’re of use as it allows you to divert in good time onto primary roads. Eg A21 which goes London to Hastings, if coming from Devon you know in time to take an alternative route eg the A35 / A31 along the south coast rather than A303 / M25 / A21 Yes but how many people take that journey? Its more useful to know how other roads are doing. What is the A303 like or the M5? A lot of the time the roads are obscure and I don't even know where they are (and I'm pretty good at road geography)
um Jul 2022 9:40am, 17 Jul 2022 6,275 posts	Quote Pin um Or you need to be a road nerd. eg seen on the M3 recently 'A303 closed after A345'. Who, other than people who live on it, know where the A345 is? (and I live near Salisbury) Why not 'A303 closed in 35 miles' or 'A303 closed at Amesbury'.
Sigh Jul 2022 9:44am, 17 Jul 2022 15,537 posts	Quote Pin Sigh We get that quite a bit, too. Driving South on the M6 near Stafford, it'll say something like "A5 closed west after junction with M42" or "A5 closed east after A41" and my mind has instantly left the local traffic while I work out where that is and if it'll affect me.
Badger Jul 2022 9:56am, 17 Jul 2022 15,403 posts	Quote Pin Badger M25 2 hour delay J29-31. Now what junction number do I come off again? Does this matter? (I was pretty sure it didn't, correctly as it turned out. Very bad at remembering junction numbers. Think the American system where the number is just the distance in miles from the start of the highway has a lot going for it)
Diogenes Jul 2022 10:17am, 17 Jul 2022 71,295 posts	Quote Pin Diogenes [The satnav diverted us off the A303 via Wilton and Salisbury to the M27 on our way home on Friday. Salisbury’s roads are very busy]
Fields Jul 2022 10:23am, 17 Jul 2022 5,501 posts	Quote Pin Fields [My mate runs the shopping village at Wilton - boring fact]
LazyDaisy Jul 2022 10:48am, 17 Jul 2022 36,322 posts	Quote Pin LazyDaisy The M5 will tell you that the A40 is closed but not tell you if the closure is east of the M5 or west. Why withhold that key bit of information?
um Jul 2022 12:21pm, 17 Jul 2022 6,276 posts	Quote Pin um Too late now Dio, but from Wilton, you should have headed straight(ish) to the M27, via Downton and the NF ... avoid Salisbury on a Friday at all costs. One of the biggest place to not have a ring road, there's queues in all directions in and out of it. Or you could have popped in for a drink or a run (at A36/A27 junction)
Diogenes Jul 2022 12:25pm, 17 Jul 2022 71,301 posts	Quote Pin Diogenes [lol, some of the directions were take the section exit to ring road, said as if it was a place name.]