Britain's busiest motorway.

[mybrainhurts]

Which motorway is this?

[Laurel Green]

M25.

[mybrainhurts]

Thanks, thought so.

My son was on the M25 to Heathrow, between 21 and 16, at 05.00-ish a couple of days ago.

Huge chunks of tarmac broke away from lane 1. He narrowly missed them and the hole.

Bloody thing needs a service...

[toastybase]

I beg to differ.

[mybrainhurts]

Differ about what?

[Sgt Bilko]

Could have sworn the busiest motorway wasn't the M25. In my previous days it was the section between J13-J15 of the M60 carrying the orbital traffic, traffic from/to the M61 and East/West route. Around 350,000 per day in the week??

[ruggedscotty]

some counts from the motorways recently in 2016...

No Road Name Section Two way AADF
1 M25 M25 J14 - J15 262,800
2 M1 M1 J7 - J8 197,200
3 M60 M60 J13 - J12 195,300
4 M25 M25 J13 - J14 186,900
5 M25 M25 J12 - J11 185,300
6 M25 M25 J18 - J19 177,400
7 M25 M25 J11 - J10 176,000
8 M25 M25 J16 - J15 174,900
9 M25 M25 J12 - J13 174,200
10 M1 M1 J6A - J7 170,400
11 M60 M60 J16 - J17 166,400
12 M60 M60 J17 - J18 165,900
13 M25 M25 J8 - J7 165,600
14 M25 M25 J17 - J18 164,100
15 M6 M6 J20 - J21 162,300
16 M8 M8 J16 - J15 161,800
17 M6 M6 J21 - J21A 161,700
18 M56 M56 J4 - J3 160,900
19 M4 M4 J4B/M25 - J4 159,500
20 M60 M60 A34 - M60 spur 157,800
21 M61 M61 J2 - J3 155,600
22 M60 M60 J14 - J15 155,400
23 M1 M1 J8 - J9 155,000

[anonymous-user]

Did you get them off Webtris ? (the updated Trads2)

http://webtris.highwaysengland.co.uk/
For those geeky types click on the numbers to drill down into link & junction specific data and I think vehicle type by length if I remember rightly, always assuming the MIDAS loops are actually working

[Laurel Green]

Someone should inform the commentator that it is not 'a fast lane'.

[funkyrobot]

Caught this week's episode of this on the ITV hub thing on my Roku. Unfortunately, as others have posted, I can't see older episodes. Oh well.

Enjoyed it but rolled my eyes when I saw the car pile up. Classic case of idiots tailgating.

I see they covered the bride getting wiped out on the M20(?) last year. Surprised they didn't mention anything about the motorcyclist who managed to avoid being decapitated.

[BossHogg]

Exactly, I told MrsHogg that they hadn't mentioned the motorcyclist, she said which one? I rewound the recording and paused it so she could see the motorbike on its side under the footbridge!

[toastybase]

mybrainhurts said:

Differ about what?

I just like that phrase

[Laurel Green]

Shunted down the road sideways by an HGV, then carry on and go fishing - seems good to me.

[blueST]

Sgt Bilko said:

Could have sworn the busiest motorway wasn't the M25. In my previous days it was the section between J13-J15 of the M60 carrying the orbital traffic, traffic from/to the M61 and East/West route. Around 350,000 per day in the week??

Your powers are still strong! That would be the busiest link, whereas M25 is probably busier as a whole.

[Sgt Bilko]

blueST said:

Sgt Bilko said:

Could have sworn the busiest motorway wasn't the M25. In my previous days it was the section between J13-J15 of the M60 carrying the orbital traffic, traffic from/to the M61 and East/West route. Around 350,000 per day in the week??

Your powers are still strong! That would be the busiest link, whereas M25 is probably busier as a whole.

I stand marginally corrected!