M3 Nightmare Continues!
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Would be interesting to see before and after accident stats for a similar time date period.
Wait till the wet dark mornings and nights arrive.
Will be a foo kin nightmare.
Hard shoulder - puncture or other minor issue = No Problem
No Hard shoulder - puncture or other minor issue = big problem.
Cant even stop for quick piss now.
Wait till the wet dark mornings and nights arrive.
Will be a foo kin nightmare.
Hard shoulder - puncture or other minor issue = No Problem
No Hard shoulder - puncture or other minor issue = big problem.
Cant even stop for quick piss now.
SVTRick said:
Would be interesting to see before and after accident stats for a similar time date period.
Wait till the wet dark mornings and nights arrive.
Will be a foo kin nightmare.
Hard shoulder - puncture or other minor issue = No Problem
No Hard shoulder - puncture or other minor issue = big problem.
Cant even stop for quick piss now.
You'll have plenty of time for that once the accident has happened, or on the M25 slip-road from J12 towards J11 - they always post a pedestrian limit to f*ck that bit up! Wait till the wet dark mornings and nights arrive.
Will be a foo kin nightmare.
Hard shoulder - puncture or other minor issue = No Problem
No Hard shoulder - puncture or other minor issue = big problem.
Cant even stop for quick piss now.
You'll even have time to spare for a slow piss!
Drove up here yesterday morning. All fine in my direction but going from 2--> 3 there was some sort of incident. Car stopped on the inside lane (I think) with a dented door. HATO had made it, but there were miles and miles of stationary traffic behind (beyond the M25 junc) with a fire engine stuck in the traffic, blues going, unable to move to get to the incident - no hard shoulder.
I hope the delay in fire engine attendance wasn't critical and that other emergency services were able to get there
I hope the delay in fire engine attendance wasn't critical and that other emergency services were able to get there
dreamer75 said:
Drove up here yesterday morning. All fine in my direction but going from 2--> 3 there was some sort of incident. Car stopped on the inside lane (I think) with a dented door. HATO had made it, but there were miles and miles of stationary traffic behind (beyond the M25 junc) with a fire engine stuck in the traffic, blues going, unable to move to get to the incident - no hard shoulder.
I hope the delay in fire engine attendance wasn't critical and that other emergency services were able to get there
There was a post on here recently about a Police car that took 90 minutes to get through traffic to a call, whilst on blue and twos.I hope the delay in fire engine attendance wasn't critical and that other emergency services were able to get there
Dr Interceptor said:
There is still loads to do...
The average speed cameras need taking out, there are sections of barrier/fence incomplete, plus the M3 Southbound and M25 intersection needs sorting out.
That was in the latest mailing from Balfour Beatty. Apparently the "environmental barriers" (sound reducing fence panels) that were put in only a few years ago after residents campaigned for years, were found to be "obstructing drivers' views of new signage".The average speed cameras need taking out, there are sections of barrier/fence incomplete, plus the M3 Southbound and M25 intersection needs sorting out.
How this wasn't discovered early in the design process when it was 3D modelled (surely it was? A project consuming this amount of public money surely doesn't develop from off the cuff fag-packet sketches?) I don't know. But true to form, they have waited until the scheme was "completed and fully open" (
) before realising that the fence needed to be realigned. So now we have more groundworks for the new line of the fence, followed by more closures while they remove the old fence.I'm pretty sure Balfour Beatty have employed Ray Cooney as their Head of Planning & Project Delivery...
...after all, this whole project has been pretty entertaining as farces go.
Trevatanus said:
When I finish work at 3am and want to get home to bed, only to find the M3 closed AGAIN, I am not sure I would use the word "entertaining"
I couldn't agree more - it's over a year late and still not really finished despite what we are being told! I hope the contract has some massive penalty clauses in it (but probably not). I think "farcical" describes it better!
t up could you?
Heads up - Spotted the speed camera going off several times now on the Northbound side before the M25 (think it might be the last gantry before jcn2)
Seen several people bombing it Southbound so assume they are not triggering yet?
Commute is loads better but so frustrating with all the numpties in lane 3 doing 60 still...
Seen several people bombing it Southbound so assume they are not triggering yet?
Commute is loads better but so frustrating with all the numpties in lane 3 doing 60 still...
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