M6 tops boring road poll

But no-one focuses on the traffic...

By PH Staff / Tuesday, 17 October 2006 / Loading comments

M4: not boring, apparently

Apparently, the M6, stretching 230 miles from Rugby to Carlisle, has been voted Britain's most boring road, according to a survey by insurer Cornhill Direct. It copes with 180,000 vehicles each day, even though it was designed only for 72,000.

Second was the infamous A30 -- the site for mile after mile of caravan-led summer tailbacks heading for Cornwall -- while the 200-mile M1 was the UK's third most boring motorway.

Cornhill Direct polled 3,000 motorists on the grounds that: "One in four motorists said they had either fallen asleep at the wheel or needed to take a break due to feeling tired on a particularly boring journey."

And 40 per cent play loud music to avoid boredom while 20 per cent sing. More than ten per cent count down the junctions, as others plot alternative routes.

No-one mentioned concentrating on the road and other traffic -- or maybe that question simply wasn't asked. So the scary question is: what are those people around you on the motorway actually concentrating on?