M3 Nightmare Continues!
Discussion
Was aiming to meet a mate at the Brooklands Auction this morning.
Got on the M3 at J4 and approaching J3 saw signs saying no access to M25 North, so a diversion was posted to leave M3 at J3.
Fine I thought, I want M25 South - then I got there and found the whole junction was closed! F
ts! If only they had said J2 was closed I would have got off at J3 and gone through Windlesham or Chobham, whatever!
The "official" diversion for M25 Southbound was to stay on the M3 to Sunbury Cross then come back - and even before 10 am on a Saturday that was a total mess!
M3 "St" motorway is posted as being completed in Summer 2017 - given how long I have seen dates appear for a few weeks before reality took some sort of grip I'm thinking it is a typo - 3017 seems possibly more achievable, barring any sort of disaster!
It's like living in the 4th world!
Got on the M3 at J4 and approaching J3 saw signs saying no access to M25 North, so a diversion was posted to leave M3 at J3.
Fine I thought, I want M25 South - then I got there and found the whole junction was closed! F
ts! If only they had said J2 was closed I would have got off at J3 and gone through Windlesham or Chobham, whatever! The "official" diversion for M25 Southbound was to stay on the M3 to Sunbury Cross then come back - and even before 10 am on a Saturday that was a total mess!
M3 "S
t" motorway is posted as being completed in Summer 2017 - given how long I have seen dates appear for a few weeks before reality took some sort of grip I'm thinking it is a typo - 3017 seems possibly more achievable, barring any sort of disaster!It's like living in the 4th world!
stain said:
That caught me out on Saturday too. The yellow road sign gave the impression that M3 to M25 South was open as did the app on my phone so I stayed on the M3. Just like you I then had to sit in about 3 miles of stationary traffic at Sunbury, not helped by people trying to barge in. I went straight on up to Hampton and went home that way but it was a nightmare. The hogs back was solid, so was Chobham etc...., so not many options.
I had to go from Sandhurst to Worcester Park on Monday around 14.00 so I used the A331, A31 and A3 - no problems!But the F*cktards got me again on the way home.
Down the A3 Southbound - overhead gantries around Cobham told me at about 20.20 that Fleet services weren't open for HGVs - as they have done for weeks FFS (it burnt down after all)! Signs used to mention M3 closures, but seemingly no longer!
So I joined the M25 and got onto the M3 slip-road only to find the Southbound entry shut, so I had another enforced trip to Sunbury Cross and back when with a bit of signage I could have gone to J13 and used the A30!
Or just stayed on the A3 and used the A331 and A31 again!Do those F*ckwit politicians REALLY want to improve air quality, or are they happier collecting the duty + VAT I pay on my petrol?
Only just got back to M25 at J12 before they shut the M3 altogether - I overtook the truck with the guy putting out cones, just lucky I wasn't travelling a bit slower!
This 3 year plus "recreation" of the M3 as a S**T motorway is turning into a total nightmare for anyone using it - just to make some "lay-bys" and put up loads of cameras. Why not get real and just build another lane? In about 10 years that will have to happen anyway - the M25 proved that!
silverfoxcc said:
agree Waze is great. Looking forwrd to screwin the ysnks in a couple of months with it. flying from SFO to JFK overnight, about 3k in 5 hrs.as the planes have wifi i am hoping to hit the no 1 spot on miles that week!!!
Thanks for that, but I'm not sure how that is likely to be of any use to those of us on the M3!? Or do you go to LHR in a chopper? (Or maybe as a chopper?)
masermartin said:
They are doing all three of these at the same time quite regularly at the moment. It's a nightmare - wouldn't want to live anywhere near the A30.
You are so right - sadly living in Sandhurst the M3 and A30 are both less than 2 miles away. It has been a fg nightmare for the best part of 3 years! Just for added frustration, I had to go to Sutton last Friday afternoon. Decided M25 on a Friday afternoon was a bad idea, so used A331, A31 and A3. All good until I got to Burpham and joined the queue! Left at Ripley and used the A246 and A24 - 35 mile trip only took 3 hours.
Maybe I need to go back to a motorbike!
FredAstaire said:
As a daily commuter on the m3 my experience is that in the mornings it's been better during the works.
Well at least one aspect has improved - maybe it will be a bit better when they actually finish it! (Not holding my breath though)!I go the same old cr*p again on Wednesday night though! On the A3 Southbound around 20.20, approaching M25 junction 10 overhead still telling me Fleet Services have no HGV parking! So I get on the M25 heading for the M3 and no signs telling me the M3 is shut from J2 to J4 until AFTER I have gone past J11 (where I would have left) so I end up going to J13 and having to endure the A30 (again).
Especially as when I went over the M3 it had Southbound traffic on it!If the closure had been signed on the A3 I would have stayed on that and used the A31 and A331 FFS!
I think I need to forget about the M3 altogether - F
g thing is shut more often than it is open!FredAstaire said:
No hgv parking at services is because they burnt down, not due to the works.
Thanks for your insight, but didn't I refer to that when I said: -"Down the A3 Southbound - overhead gantries around Cobham told me at about 20.20 that Fleet services weren't open for HGVs - as they have done for weeks FFS used to mention M3 closures, but seemingly no longer!"
Maybe time for a Waltz Mr Astaire, unless you can do a Foxtrot (Oscar)?!
Special treat last night - by about 21.30ish the M3 was closed from J2 to J4a (where the Southbound HGV's can't park apparently)!!
I know it needs gazillions spent on it to make it a real basket-case f*ck-up, but should it really take 3 years to make it the "Road to Nowhere"? (as in it is closed).
I know it needs gazillions spent on it to make it a real basket-case f*ck-up, but should it really take 3 years to make it the "Road to Nowhere"? (as in it is closed).
SVTRick said:
Rental basis and Woodlands bridge right near me
will not be finished by 30th June
Balfour Beatty also have one of the worst site safety records
7 workers have lost their lives on BB Contracts in the last few years - disgusting statistic...
which includes one on the M3 site.
Sad, but I would happily have killed another BB Contractor tonight! will not be finished by 30th June
Balfour Beatty also have one of the worst site safety records
7 workers have lost their lives on BB Contracts in the last few years - disgusting statistic...
which includes one on the M3 site.
Came Southbound on the A3 - no signs, even to warn of the lack of HGV parking Southbound at Fleet Services!
Exited the A3 at J10 on the M25 then headed for the M3, but after J10 on M25 someone finally decided to tell everyone that the M3 slip-road was shut - why not be honest and tell people on the A3 that the poxy M3 was shut - AGAIN! Because it was!
There are overhead signs on the A3, so why not use them?! - then I could have stayed on the A3 to Guildford, got on the A31 and used the A331.
We've already developed rocket science - surely road signage isn't that difficult?
Trevatanus said:
So, allegedly. this crock of st will be finished in a fortnight.
I really do hope so.
Coming home around midnight, was on the M25, about to get off onto to the A30. when I saw the signs, "M3 Closed, Junction 3-4", could it be? No, surely not, the M3 is actually available to partially use??
So, I stayed on, with the intention of getting on at 2 (M25) and off at 3 (Lightwater)
However, what they failed to mention, and I had no way of knowing before I got there. was the southbound slip was closed. so, upon leaving the M25, you had to go North to Sunbury, come off, and then go South again.
I called the HA to find to tell them, and they promised to change the signs immediately.
Imbeciles.
Same for me on Friday night at 8.30 ish!t will be finished in a fortnight.I really do hope so.
Coming home around midnight, was on the M25, about to get off onto to the A30. when I saw the signs, "M3 Closed, Junction 3-4", could it be? No, surely not, the M3 is actually available to partially use??
So, I stayed on, with the intention of getting on at 2 (M25) and off at 3 (Lightwater)
However, what they failed to mention, and I had no way of knowing before I got there. was the southbound slip was closed. so, upon leaving the M25, you had to go North to Sunbury, come off, and then go South again.
I called the HA to find to tell them, and they promised to change the signs immediately.
Imbeciles.
F*cking waste of time, but if the poxy signs had said M3 closed J2 to the South Coast forever after 9 pm so the workers can have a tea-break/w
k/whatever I would have stayed on the A3, but they didn't! So I didn't stay on the A3 to get onto the A31 then A331, although when the gantries say M3 closed from J3 to J4a you sort of hope you my get from J2 to J3, but apparently not without going to Sunbury at J1...!
No more, I'm going to treat the M3 as the motorway that doesn't exist because it is mostly closed anyway!
Total waste of time - I'd rather use a good A-road, or is that the strategy?
M3 "s
te Motorway" is unlikely to be finished In my lifetime - pointless, useless cheapskate "solution" to the lack of decent roads in the south east, where most of the UK population lives! I have used better dual carriageways (but I cannot say where, or they will get closed down)! 
AlexRS2782 said:
One thing I will say though - driving over the Maultway bridge or Ravenswood r/bout during the night - I don't think I've ever seen that many contractors working on this stretch since they started the works god knows how many years ago. Maybe they should have had that level of workman out from the start and it would have actually been finished in 2015 - you know, when it was originally promised to have been completed by 
Well there will be loads of activity as it seems there is some desperation to meet the "Summer 2017" completion deadline (rather than the 2015 deadline that nobody took seriously anyway)! Edited by AlexRS2782 on Monday 19th June 15:22
Still I'm looking forward to the misery that completion will bring - assuming I'm not dead by then!! (Might be a better option to be fair)!
Enjoy the 40/50 mph "motorway" everyone - because that is the best you can hope for, and don't get confused about the changing limits, because they are the revenue generators!
Had a special treat tonight though!
I was on the A3 Southbound and the gantries said the M3 J2 to J4a was closed - but that should have been OK as I stayed on the A3 aiming for the A31!
Got past Guildford on the A3, but the slip-road to the A31 was closed? WTF are the "authorities" (AKA W*nkers) doing, given that the M3 Southbound was already shut?
Oh well, headed to the Godalming/Puttenham junction to join the A31 there - only to find that was also closed! Planning, what is that? An alien concept in this part of the world obviously!
Luckily I know the area pretty well so I went through Wanborough and Ash to get onto the A331 which was actually open!!
Haha, the meddlers missed that one! I hope one of the road planning people actually gets to drive a car without an instructor one day - just to take part in the misery they inflict on the rest of us on a daily basis - F*cking clueless Tw*ts!
I was on the A3 Southbound and the gantries said the M3 J2 to J4a was closed - but that should have been OK as I stayed on the A3 aiming for the A31!
Got past Guildford on the A3, but the slip-road to the A31 was closed? WTF are the "authorities" (AKA W*nkers) doing, given that the M3 Southbound was already shut?
Oh well, headed to the Godalming/Puttenham junction to join the A31 there - only to find that was also closed! Planning, what is that?
An alien concept in this part of the world obviously!Luckily I know the area pretty well so I went through Wanborough and Ash to get onto the A331 which was actually open!!
Haha, the meddlers missed that one! I hope one of the road planning people actually gets to drive a car without an instructor one day - just to take part in the misery they inflict on the rest of us on a daily basis - F*cking clueless Tw*ts!
FurryExocet said:
Not that long ago, when the M3 overnight closure was on, they also decided to resurface the road by the "mongolian" or "American Golf" roundabout on the A30, it caused absolute chaos that night, as that was the diversion route. The Highways lot didn't seem to care when we raised it with them.
I can't wait for the chaos that is going to start when the meadows gets its make over, think I might move away for a year
Thanks, that will indeed be a special treat!I can't wait for the chaos that is going to start when the meadows gets its make over, think I might move away for a year
I think I will just stay at home - and it will never be done in a year!
Based on the M3 experience (and the Broadmoor roundabout on the A3095) I'd reckon on the best part of a decade (assuming a tail-wind)!
Eric Mc said:
You can tell a person's age by how they refer to that junction. I call it "The Jolly Farmer" roundabout.
Yes, Jolly Farmer roundabout for me too! (But then I'm old)! I always smile when I go through Bagshot on the A30 - what was Pantiles is now a Sunrise care home! Time gets all of us in the end!
Landshark said:
It will be back at 70mph. However, when it reopens, a 60 limit will be applied whilst the final tweaks are completed.
I hope you are right, but I really doubt it! I go from the M3 to the M25 at least once a week and in the last 6 years the one and only time the M25 had the NSL in force was when the gantries had broken down!
I don't ever expect the M3 between J2 and J4a to have a 70 limit - unless those gantries break as well! (But I would love to be proven wrong)!
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