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[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

It should have all been so easy.

A 180 mile trip that should have taken about 4 hours.

A three car pile up on the A52 about 10 miles from Grantham was my first delay. After inching along for the best part of an hour the road was finally closed  meaning I had to find an alternate route.

The Signum has satnav that is piss poor at redirection so I used the time honoured method of reading a map. For anyone under the age of twenty a map consists of folded paper with lots of lines and squiggles. For the purpose of clarification a map is not the same an 'app'.

This was followed by a major incident on the M6/M42 junction 3A.....very nasty.

Although several people were taken to hospital it seems  there were no fatalities.

My four hour trip took the best part of eight hours.







 

[Sir Tigger KC]

I bet you wished you were in your old Omega. 

[Crazycarzowner]

  Ouch!!!

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

I bet you wished you were in your old Omega. 

The Signum is pretty comfortable.

What really pissed me off was that I was forced to stare at the 'lard arsed' rump of an Insignia as we queued on the M6 car park.

Not a pretty sight, Sir Tig.......I liken it to the fat bird from the chip shop.

[biggriffin]

The A52 accident, had been advertised, fairly heavily on the wireless, you could have diverted towards Melton, then A46, going  m69, depending on your destination.
You cant beat old skool navigation.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

The A52 accident, had been advertised, fairly heavily on the wireless, you could have diverted towards Melton, then A46, going  m69, depending on your destination.
You cant beat old skool navigation.

BG, I cut across from the A52 to the A46.......then M1....M69.....M6 ...M42.

[Varche]

It should have all been so easy.

A 180 mile trip that should have taken about 4 hours.

A three car pile up on the A52 about 10 miles from Grantham was my first delay. After inching along for the best part of an hour the road was finally closed  meaning I had to find an alternate route.

The Signum has satnav that is piss poor at redirection so I used the time honoured method of reading a map. For anyone under the age of twenty a map consists of folded paper with lots of lines and squiggles. For the purpose of clarification a map is not the same an 'app'.

This was followed by a major incident on the M6/M42 junction 3A.....very nasty.

Although several people were taken to hospital it seems  there were no fatalities.

My four hour trip took the best part of eight hours.

Best take the pessimist approach. Allow 8 hours for the journey and be chuffed to bits if it only takes 4 hours. That is what I do with Leicester to Portpatrick via the M6 grimway.(allow 8 hours and be chuffed to get there in six). Roll on Smart motorways and more proactive traffic control

[Sir Tigger KC]

Roll on teleportation. 

[biggriffin]

It should have all been so easy.

A 180 mile trip that should have taken about 4 hours.

A three car pile up on the A52 about 10 miles from Grantham was my first delay. After inching along for the best part of an hour the road was finally closed  meaning I had to find an alternate route.

The Signum has satnav that is piss poor at redirection so I used the time honoured method of reading a map. For anyone under the age of twenty a map consists of folded paper with lots of lines and squiggles. For the purpose of clarification a map is not the same an 'app'.

This was followed by a major incident on the M6/M42 junction 3A.....very nasty.

Although several people were taken to hospital it seems  there were no fatalities.

My four hour trip took the best part of eight hours.

Best take the pessimist approach. Allow 8 hours for the journey and be chuffed to bits if it only takes 4 hours. That is what I do with Leicester to Portpatrick via the M6 grimway.(allow 8 hours and be chuffed to get there in six). Roll on Smart motorways and more proactive traffic control

Don't work.
 problem is more traffic fighting for less road space, they need to build, larger roads. But wont happen.

[05omegav6]

I bet you wished you were in your old Omega. 

The Signum is pretty comfortable.

What really pissed me off was that I was forced to stare at the 'lard arsed' rump of an Insignia as we queued on the M6 car park.

Not a pretty sight, Sir Tig.......I liken it to the fat bird from the chip shop.

And like said bird, the Insignias talents are hidden deep, but abundantly there nevertheless 

[Terbs]

Phew...lucky I missed that accident on the M6/M42....all clear when I came through on my way back from Cosford. I assume it was earlier in the day.

[Nick W]

Best take the pessimist approach. Allow 8 hours for the journey and be chuffed to bits if it only takes 4 hours. That is what I do with Leicester to Portpatrick via the M6 grimway.(allow 8 hours and be chuffed to get there in six). Roll on Smart motorways and more proactive traffic control

A blockage on a traditional motorway is 3 lanes of stationary traffic, and the hard shoulder clear for emergency vehicles. Converting that to a 'smart' motorway gives four lanes of stationary traffic and nowhere for the emergency vehicles to get through.


Which means it takes even longer for the blockage to be cleared.

[Varche]

Oh. I thought that if there is a blockage then traffic gets diverted according to where you want to go. If lane 1 and 2 are blocked it will close those and tell you to get into lane 3. I know that for heavy traffic they will use the hard shoulder as a fourth lane.

My question then would be, if there is an accident and the "control centre" sees that all lanes are stationary, would they then take the decision to divert traffic off rather than just let it all pile up. The Smart thing would be to alert drivers to accident 23.6 miles ahead best leave at jct 23 . 

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Oh. I thought that if there is a blockage then traffic gets diverted according to where you want to go. If lane 1 and 2 are blocked it will close those and tell you to get into lane 3. I know that for heavy traffic they will use the hard shoulder as a fourth lane.

My question then would be, if there is an accident and the "control centre" sees that all lanes are stationary, would they then take the decision to divert traffic off rather than just let it all pile up. The Smart thing would be to alert drivers to accident 23.6 miles ahead best leave at jct 23 .

I finally came to a halt some 5 miles from the accident.

It took one and a half hours to branch off for the M42.

[Marks DTM Calib]

I would have thought you had the CD70 Nav in your Signum which is brilliant at redirection and auto re-routes before you get to the blockages.