A64 A166 blocked again .....
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Happily I`m sat at home tonight but these are both close to being blocked - A166 at Stamford where apparently you `can`t get over the bridge` due to snow (!). A64 closed at Whitwell Hill - Well I`m a little lower down & about 15 miles away - we`ve had less than 2 inches. Garrowby Hill almost closed but perhaps a little more understandable. Snow forecast at least 24hrs ago. Surely some effective gritting could have prevented this - or is it expecting too much these days?
Set off home from Whitby at about half 3. Got to Garforth at about half 7!
As we left it was very lightly dusting. The A169 was slow but as it started to get heavier people were driving sensibly, big gaps and nice and steady, no bother.
Got to the bottom of the first bit of DC after Malton (just opposite markmullens place) and it all went to s
t. Sea of red lights. Luckily I had a full tank of fuel!
We moved very, very slowly for miles and miles. Knew it was a jackknifed lorry but it had been removed by the time we got to Hopgrove RAB, so I never worked out which section it was actually on?
Of course the usual problem of people driving like cocks and ignoring the merge signs exacerbated the queues. And I nearly got rammed off the road by a Plough truck who didnt seem to realise that in a RWD sports car with a fag-packets ground clearance, It would be quite foolish for me to dive into deep snow off the edge off the road.
As we left it was very lightly dusting. The A169 was slow but as it started to get heavier people were driving sensibly, big gaps and nice and steady, no bother.
Got to the bottom of the first bit of DC after Malton (just opposite markmullens place) and it all went to s
t. Sea of red lights. Luckily I had a full tank of fuel!We moved very, very slowly for miles and miles. Knew it was a jackknifed lorry but it had been removed by the time we got to Hopgrove RAB, so I never worked out which section it was actually on?
Of course the usual problem of people driving like cocks and ignoring the merge signs exacerbated the queues. And I nearly got rammed off the road by a Plough truck who didnt seem to realise that in a RWD sports car with a fag-packets ground clearance, It would be quite foolish for me to dive into deep snow off the edge off the road.
snotrag said:
Of course the usual problem of people driving like cocks and ignoring the merge signs exacerbated the queues. And I nearly got rammed off the road by a Plough truck who didnt seem to realise that in a RWD sports car with a fag-packets ground clearance, It would be quite foolish for me to dive into deep snow off the edge off the road.
dont take this the wrong way or think i am getting at youhow come everybody that posts on here are great drivers(especially myself)and every other driver is a cock
if you would of gone on the snow plough chat forum it would of read cocks in low down sports cars wont get out of the way as there ground clearance is about as much as a fag packet why do these cocks use these cars in the snow
being sensible i am now taking my daughter out in a 7 1/2 ton horsebox as she is jumping somewhere and these get stuck on wet grass never mind snow but as i post on here i am a great driver and if i get stuck it will be some other cocks fault not mine
steven f said:
julianm said:
Hopefully you can always get home on the horse! Good luck with the jumps.
got home ok but loads of cocks on the road think the idiots in the snow ploughs will be out gritting the road tonight and causing pistonheaders to get stone chips on the cars
julianm said:
Happily I`m sat at home tonight but these are both close to being blocked - A166 at Stamford where apparently you `can`t get over the bridge` due to snow (!). A64 closed at Whitwell Hill - Well I`m a little lower down & about 15 miles away - we`ve had less than 2 inches. Garrowby Hill almost closed but perhaps a little more understandable. Snow forecast at least 24hrs ago. Surely some effective gritting could have prevented this - or is it expecting too much these days?
Garrowby is always knackered. The council made out to a traffic officer that it had been gritted at a certain time, despite him sitting there with an overturned van (earlier this year / last) since about 4am in the morning and saying nothing had been past.This year the traffic ground to a halt - I phoned police comms and asked them to ring the council to close the road - they had already requested it twice and had no result. It was eventually closed off but they don't seem to place any kind of priority on gritting what is a treacherous stretch of road.
Edited by Escort2dr on Saturday 2nd January 20:41
grahamw48 said:
steven f said:
julianm said:
Hopefully you can always get home on the horse! Good luck with the jumps.
got home ok but loads of cocks on the road think the idiots in the snow ploughs will be out gritting the road tonight and causing pistonheaders to get stone chips on the cars
Escort2dr said:
julianm said:
Happily I`m sat at home tonight but these are both close to being blocked - A166 at Stamford where apparently you `can`t get over the bridge` due to snow (!). A64 closed at Whitwell Hill - Well I`m a little lower down & about 15 miles away - we`ve had less than 2 inches. Garrowby Hill almost closed but perhaps a little more understandable. Snow forecast at least 24hrs ago. Surely some effective gritting could have prevented this - or is it expecting too much these days?
Garrowby is always knackered. The council made out to a traffic officer that it had been gritted at a certain time, despite him sitting there with an overturned van (earlier this year / last) since about 4am in the morning and saying nothing had been past.This year the traffic ground to a halt - I phoned police comms and asked them to ring the council to close the road - they had already requested it twice and had no result. It was eventually closed off but they don't seem to place any kind of priority on gritting what is a treacherous stretch of road.
Edited by Escort2dr on Saturday 2nd January 20:41
It is the only part of the route which is likely to be impassable.
If they simply concentrated their efforts on this, the hills around Warter, and Market Weighton hill, then East Yorkshire wouldn't be virtually cut off after a couple of inches of snow.
Pathetic!
It has stopped me from getting to meetings (full stop) and a conference (on time), all because the road is closed due to not being cleared. Of course the back roads are more treacherous still though I did manage to travel about quite a bit this year in the wife's 4x4 Octavia. Cut-off is exactly the right expression - the alternative is to travel on a huge detour.
IIRC earlier this year I had the opposite problem - couldn't get home. I left Pocklington at 3.30pm and didn't get home until 11.30pm due to the back roads being impassable and then blocked, 40 mins from Pock to Shiptonthorpe, only to find the A614 closed... if the council got their act together it wouldn't be an issue.
IIRC earlier this year I had the opposite problem - couldn't get home. I left Pocklington at 3.30pm and didn't get home until 11.30pm due to the back roads being impassable and then blocked, 40 mins from Pock to Shiptonthorpe, only to find the A614 closed... if the council got their act together it wouldn't be an issue.
Yes, had a hell of a day working around the Driffield area before Xmas.
I had to go A64 and up Staxton hill to get to my first call. That was fun.
Thank goodness I had radio York on before heading back to York, as they informed me that Shiptonthorpe roundabout was scuppered, so I went via Warter, knowing that Garrowby was out.
Luckily there wasn't a blinkin bus stuck halfway up the hill at Warter, as there was last time I took that route in the snow.
So far so good....just the snow newbies screwing up the system.
I had to go A64 and up Staxton hill to get to my first call. That was fun.
Thank goodness I had radio York on before heading back to York, as they informed me that Shiptonthorpe roundabout was scuppered, so I went via Warter, knowing that Garrowby was out.
Luckily there wasn't a blinkin bus stuck halfway up the hill at Warter, as there was last time I took that route in the snow.
So far so good....just the snow newbies screwing up the system.
I was living in W.Yorks then, at primary school. Loved it....as kids do. 
No namby pamby being sent home from school in those days either.
There was hard-packed snow on the roads for literally weeks on end, but as I only had a pushbike, roller skates and homemade go-kart at the time...can't comment on Garrowby.
No namby pamby being sent home from school in those days either.
There was hard-packed snow on the roads for literally weeks on end, but as I only had a pushbike, roller skates and homemade go-kart at the time...can't comment on Garrowby.
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