Aye, cost about =A360 in fuel alone, assuming 40 mpg. You'd also be hard pressed to drive it sensibly, coffee and pee breaks, in the
4h46m of the train. My TomTom gave 4h12m fastest (M6,M42,M40,A34,M27).
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there was a woman on the news who went to inverness on xmas eve to buy a turkey, and hasnt got home to her husband yet. [g] (thats what she told him and he believed it!)
I drove out at 5pm without any real problems. I had to take a circuitous route down country lanes to avoid the gridlocked A32. Mostly the gridlock was caused by clueless (and often selfish) clowns. Points go to the Merc driver who blocked the road because he wasn't looking ahead and failed to see the queue of traffic on the hill that he was approaching, he slammed on the brakes too hard and too late and wedged the car sideways.
More point to the van driver ascending another hill who decided to swerve around the vehicle that was struggling to climb the hill - no use of indicators of course - causing the car descending the hill to have to slam on the brakes. Then both car and van slid into each other and the stranded vehicle. Blocking yet another route.
More point to all the people who flagged me down and earnestly told me I would "never get that big thing up/down that hill" every one of them was wrong.
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Are you sure you need to travel? Even the trains are giving up.
HTH
Thats what TomTom said, personally I'd not use the M6 across the north of Birmingham. It's better since the toll road but can still be nose to tail 20mph stuff. I'd drop down the M5 then the M42. TomTom says 4h14m 265 miles around the SW of B'ham v 4h12m 263 miles over the north.
If I could I also avoid the M6 south of Manchester but you can't. B-(
I know the area - and I believe her!
In message , Dave writes
Motorways - frixo
will give you real time speeds for the m6, m1 m25 etc
lets start with the m6
In message , Neil writes
Winter tyres are for foreign girlies ...
Lesson learned a long time ago
chains are not much use sitting on top of your wardrobe in Milan when you're stuck 100 metres from the top of the St Bernadino pass
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Yes, but with the cost of another set of wheels and tyres for the winter and somewhere to store them for the summer (for each car in the household). In 25 years of driving, I've never encountered weather where I've actually needed snow tyres to get through before - I'm in Manchester BTW. Even today I got to work okay (nine inches of snow), but ended up coming home again as other people got stuck on the access roads and although I managed to get into the carpark, I didn't know whether the road would be completely blocked with abandoned cars by the time I came to leave otherwise.
For the rare occasions that we get weather that makes driving difficult for more than a couple of days, it's just not worth the whole country being geared up to the kind of weather that many other countries have to cope with either frequently or for long periods. Yes it makes the news from one part of the country or another every year, but most of the country doesn't see anything like it for decades at a time.
SteveW
Apologies, they're called Live Traffic Cams but they bring up a Jam Cam page.
This is the current scene from the camera nearest your daughter:
HTH
I've found metcheck.com very good. It was down for a while today though, due to sheer volume.
Seems accurate - I use it when planning decking jobs.
Ah but you missed out the important points ..wehere she lives and what sort of transport she has to take .
Someone on BBC News travelling from Poole to Lee on Solent and he is on a m/way ( missed which one ) but it's taking him forever to complete his journey because ,in his words ,he hit a wall of snow.
Watching the London news tonight made me laugh. Reports from journo's all over the UK all basically saying "its snowing". A few claimed "the area is cut off" which makes one wonder how they got there.
Ancient Italian philosophers say, anyone taking San Bernardino pass in winter deserves everything that comes to him.
M27
No, it's taking him forever because it's been closed between Southampton and Fareham for most of the evening. Not the snow per se, just divots driving too fast and not leaving enough braking distance.
They're journalists - they travel through the sewers...
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