A4074 to Oxford
Discussion
Many moons ago, when I were a young 18 year old (well OK 4 years ago) one of my favorites journey's involved driving out from Reading towards Oxford along the trusty A4074.
There are some fantastic stretches where you could really step your little 1.1 First car over the line listening to your trusty cassette of bruce springsteen.
Over the years I've upgraded along the usual path of Vauxhall Astra, Ford Focus, and the occasioanl nice-ish car here and there all of which you can have fun in, especially listening to bruce springsteen along the A4074.
I wonder how many people here know the stretch along the route to Oxford where you come out of a little 30 zone onto national speed limit, it's so wide you could literally have 4 buses side by side with no problems.
The sort of place whereby it would be possible to accidently break the speed limit slightly because you've learnt over the years that moving slightly over to the right you can see for miles around the slight bend.
Why or why, and how did they get away with painting those solid white lines and ziga zagas to stop you from overtaking along that stretch? It's quite upsetting to think you could stand to gain 3 points for overtaking a rover 214 that happens to be towing a caravan (oh there's always one!)
Now all you get it big signs saying "STAY IN LANE" . I was being followed along the stretch by a police-car and an oncoming vehicle was overtaking (which is fine seeing you can fit 5 cars along there and he was in no danger of getting close to me even if the road was wide enough for 2 cars) and yet the police-car turned around and went to pull him over...
If you can't put your foot down along these roads, what is this country coming to !! boo hisssss
There are some fantastic stretches where you could really step your little 1.1 First car over the line listening to your trusty cassette of bruce springsteen.
Over the years I've upgraded along the usual path of Vauxhall Astra, Ford Focus, and the occasioanl nice-ish car here and there all of which you can have fun in, especially listening to bruce springsteen along the A4074.
I wonder how many people here know the stretch along the route to Oxford where you come out of a little 30 zone onto national speed limit, it's so wide you could literally have 4 buses side by side with no problems.
The sort of place whereby it would be possible to accidently break the speed limit slightly because you've learnt over the years that moving slightly over to the right you can see for miles around the slight bend.
Why or why, and how did they get away with painting those solid white lines and ziga zagas to stop you from overtaking along that stretch? It's quite upsetting to think you could stand to gain 3 points for overtaking a rover 214 that happens to be towing a caravan (oh there's always one!)
Now all you get it big signs saying "STAY IN LANE" . I was being followed along the stretch by a police-car and an oncoming vehicle was overtaking (which is fine seeing you can fit 5 cars along there and he was in no danger of getting close to me even if the road was wide enough for 2 cars) and yet the police-car turned around and went to pull him over...
If you can't put your foot down along these roads, what is this country coming to !! boo hisssss
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