keith
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Britain's road network plumbed hitherto unexplored depths today.
My wife and I arranged to go to the south coast for lunch today, a place in Studland Bay called Pig on the Beach. The table was booked for 12pm, so to allow for traffic left at 8.45am from NW London. More than three hours should have seemingly been plenty of time to travel a little over 100 miles most of which is motorway. We arrived at 4.15pm some six and a half hour s later!! This mostly thanks to the highways agency deciding to close the M27 where it meets the M3, resulting in anyone wanting to travel further west from the M3 taking a diversion of utterly enormous proportions. At one point we were being directed to travel back up the M3 towards London, and what was undoubtedly the absolute low point a traffic hold taking in excess of one hour to travel two miles to cross a junction!!! At least the climate control after an initial lack of its usual effectiveness was able to keep me from exploding in 30 degrees in fact if anything being a little too cold.
As I say a new level of utter chaos.
As for the place, Studland is well worth visiting, of course in nice weather everyone else has the same idea making everything mobbed. As for the Pig hotel , it s probably a bit to 'on trend' for me, being full of lots of young people enjoying what seemed like someone's house party type atmosphere. I am probably a little old fashioned and prefer the more traditional country house hotel.
Anyway if this journey doesn't encourage the public not to use a car I'm not sure what would...
Britain's road network plumbed hitherto unexplored depths today.
My wife and I arranged to go to the south coast for lunch today, a place in Studland Bay called Pig on the Beach. The table was booked for 12pm, so to allow for traffic left at 8.45am from NW London. More than three hours should have seemingly been plenty of time to travel a little over 100 miles most of which is motorway. We arrived at 4.15pm some six and a half hour s later!! This mostly thanks to the highways agency deciding to close the M27 where it meets the M3, resulting in anyone wanting to travel further west from the M3 taking a diversion of utterly enormous proportions. At one point we were being directed to travel back up the M3 towards London, and what was undoubtedly the absolute low point a traffic hold taking in excess of one hour to travel two miles to cross a junction!!! At least the climate control after an initial lack of its usual effectiveness was able to keep me from exploding in 30 degrees in fact if anything being a little too cold.
As I say a new level of utter chaos.
As for the place, Studland is well worth visiting, of course in nice weather everyone else has the same idea making everything mobbed. As for the Pig hotel , it s probably a bit to 'on trend' for me, being full of lots of young people enjoying what seemed like someone's house party type atmosphere. I am probably a little old fashioned and prefer the more traditional country house hotel.
Anyway if this journey doesn't encourage the public not to use a car I'm not sure what would...