9 car pileiup M6..

[geoff]

Motorway, autobahn, autostrada, whatever - he said "the world's first." which would indicate inclusion of international equivalents

[Nightjar]

I have memories of being redirected around a village centre on Bastille Day and one of the diversion signs being mounted so that you could only see it in your rear view mirror after you had passed the turning, if you looked, which I didn't.

Colin Bignell

[bert]

In message , "Dave Plowman (News)" writes

No but there has always been a Watford Gap - well since the ice age.

[Andy Champ]

You lot are all very parochial.

The true division between north and south is, of course, the equator :)

Andy

[polygonum]

What a discussion we will have if the earth's magnetic field flips N and S round (as has happened in the past and been predicted many times)!

[geoff]

Nah - Watford Gap's nowhere near that

[The Natural Philosopher]

Since the motorway is a term that was then only applied to UK trunk roads of a particular legally defined class...for example many German autobahns do NOT have the emergency lane at all ...then strictly that is a correct statement.

[The Natural Philosopher]

I used to drive that way every week. Charleroi is a bitch. I used to cross at Poperinge. And the signposting is indeed dire - or was in the

80's when I did that run.

[Tim Streater]

Well they confused me the first time, too. I kept seeing these signs saying "Autoroute a Peage" and kept wondering why all autoroutes went to Peage, which I couldn't find on the map.

[The Natural Philosopher]

If I end up a northerner that will be the end of the world.

[Tim Streater]

As was ours when we were in Shetland earlier this year.

[The Natural Philosopher]

I remember remarking to my (german) sister how many roads were called 'Einbahnstrasse' and how many places called 'Ausfahrt' there were in Germany.

[Tim Streater]

Thousands I should think. About 14 years ago I had to go to Germany for one (1) day on business. During the few hours I was there I witnessed three (3) road accidents.

[The Natural Philosopher]

I remember driving to Orkney. WE got to somewhere near Edinburgh and I remember thinking 'can't be much further'

sheesh. another nights stay in Loch Lomond and another one in a Thurso fleapit..after miles of FSBA...

If the Scots want Scotland for themselves, I ain't fighting over it.

[charles]

nor do some of the Motorways in Scotland - M90 in particular.

[charles]

[Snip]

and there were the American tourists in the Cotswolds who went through Chipping Norton, Chipping Sodbury and 3 villages called Loose Chippings.

[ARW]

Well a quick google for my journey to Edinburgh suggests it is a 220 mile journey.

My London trips are 185 miles there and 195 miles back (I use different routes). I can travel a lot further north of Edinburgh than I can south of London (and still stay on the mainland).

[geoff]

Dunnet, have you?

[ARW]

I hope so as I am taking an electric kettle with me.

[geoff]

When I worked in Germany one of the other contractors was stopped by the police and gave his address as "Weisses Lamm, Einbahnstr, Lauf"

Its not the ausfahrts, its the notausgangs on the busses and trams that got me