Most the roads near me are always busy some are a lot worse:-
A56 from Stretford to Altrincham is just chaos thankfully there is a tram route along this road so often just park up and get the tram but if a job is too far away from the tram line I have no choice to drive down this road and I hate it. There is speed and traffic light cameras at every junction and there is also an appalling standard of drivign down this road for some reason.
Deansgate (also the A56) in Manchester city centre is always a nightmare despite a ring road round it designed to carry north south traffic.
The A6 from Manchester city centre to Hazel Grove in Stockport, not quite as bad as the A56 and there are stretches which go quiet but certainly a good part of it you will always spend 5-10 minutes stuck in traffic no matter what time of day.
Oxford Street London - It never seems to amaze me why they bother running buses down there at all the road is a complete joke, if you want to get down it East to West walking is by the far the best way that is if you can fight your way through beggers that constantly say "excuse me do you speak German?"
Oxford Road/Wilmslow Road Manchester always always busy this was once the busiest bus route in Europe and is argable home to the biggest concentration of students in the country. As a result in rush hour it can take 1.5 hours to get 4.5 miles down the road. Even when it is quiete this journey takes 35 minutes.
Those are the roads I can think of which are always constantly busy. Roads like the A34 (Kingsway) which links South Manchester to Cheshire seem to be empty during the day and then just gridlock during rush hour.
You may have noticed I have mentioned buses a lot, I think the link is that buses tend to run down the busiest streets in terms of pedistrains as that is where the catchment is. There is no point running a every two minute bus service down some residential lead to no where road.
Edited by Rattle on 28/09/2009 at 21:27
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A30 in Cornwall is often chocker due to tourists coming & going, can be awful Eastbound at Temple just East of Bodmin, best to take the A39 (and get held up in Camelford :)
A390 into Truro is an absolute joke most times, which is a pain because all the DIY stores and around that side, I live in the rough part near the A39 and there is nothing here except the Crematorium, and I don't need that yet (hehehe!)
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M4 Cardiff/Newport whenever I go near it!!!
FTF
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M42 grumbles away around the clock.
I can hear it in the distance from the bathroom window, and even in the wee small hours it's never quiet.
Busy or very busy during the day. Then it expands onto the hard shoulder too.
GOK where everyone's going.
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Went to Kettering for a meeting on Sunday; left there about 18.00 and was surprised to find a lengthy queue at the M1/A14/M6 intersection, a good mile of it.
Agree with John H about the M42. How on earth did we ever manage without that, and the M25? I can remember doing London and the Home Counties before the latter, and I'm certain the jams were never as bad then.
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The junction of the M1/A14/M6 is *always* a nightmare. if you want to join or leave the A14. Its the most badly designed major intersection in the world and a disgrace to modern society.
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The junction of the M1/A14/M6 is *always* a nightmare. if you want to join or leave the A14. Its the most badly designed major intersection in the world and a disgrace to modern society.
Truly it is, designed by primary school children I imagine.
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The junction of the M1/A14/M6 is *always* a nightmare. if you want to join or leave the A14. Its the most badly designed major intersection in the world and a disgrace to modern society.
Truly it is, designed by primary school children I imagine.
Yes it is, that is very close to where I live and it is one of the dumbest junctions ever designed. The A14 isnt a bad road, but the end/start of it is silly.
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Yes it is that is very close to where I live and it is one of the dumbest junctions ever designed. The A14 isnt a bad road but the end/start of it is silly.
I must disagree. The A14 is a disgracefully inadequate and dangerous road. It carries a vast amount of traffic yet has many non-grade separated junctions and no hard shoulder. As I write this at least three people have been killed on it this afternoon on one of the busiest and most dangerous sections where it skirts south of Kettering. It should be at least three lanes wide with no direct access...i.e.a proper motorway.
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I dont know Rattle, the A6 isnt that bad. I crossed it without the aid of a pedestrian crossing quite recently....it was 3am, mind you.
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I think it has patches. I would say from Hazel Grove to Stockport its very busy, then it gets very busy again from Longsight into the city centre. Round the Heatons it seems a bit quieter.
Of course I am only talking about the Stockport area of the A6 here, I realise its a very very long road and parts of it will be empty (thanks to the M6) and other parts very busy.
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