Weekend just past we had occasion to travel from Skye to the Fareham area for a funeral. Setting aside the reason for the trip it was the worst journey we've ever encountered on UK roads.
Maybe a combination of the time of year, public events or whatever, it took for ever once we got past Carlisle.
My commiserations to any who lives south of Carlisle and has to use the motorways or indeed any other road.
From Carlisle to the south coast was supposed to be just over 6hrs according to the sat nav. It took just under 10.
Some of the delays due to construction work had notices saying Delays Until Spring 2026 or 2028. We were beginning to think we would be stuck in traffic until then.
In the motorway service stations the Samaritans had set up shop handing out packets of tranquillisers. We're sure at one point people wearing white coats were walking down the hard shoulder handing out subscription forms to Exit.
The homeward journey wasn't much better although we're only as far as Cambridgeshire so far, staying a while with family.
How any of you cope with that on a daily basis I can't imagine.
We don't need people to switch to EVs we need to get people off of the roads.
PS. Many of the charging points we came across were not being used. Maybe they were still stuck on the roads searching through their luggage for a handful of AA batteries.
Maybe a combination of the time of year, public events or whatever, it took for ever once we got past Carlisle.
My commiserations to any who lives south of Carlisle and has to use the motorways or indeed any other road.
From Carlisle to the south coast was supposed to be just over 6hrs according to the sat nav. It took just under 10.
Some of the delays due to construction work had notices saying Delays Until Spring 2026 or 2028. We were beginning to think we would be stuck in traffic until then.
In the motorway service stations the Samaritans had set up shop handing out packets of tranquillisers. We're sure at one point people wearing white coats were walking down the hard shoulder handing out subscription forms to Exit.
The homeward journey wasn't much better although we're only as far as Cambridgeshire so far, staying a while with family.
How any of you cope with that on a daily basis I can't imagine.
We don't need people to switch to EVs we need to get people off of the roads.
PS. Many of the charging points we came across were not being used. Maybe they were still stuck on the roads searching through their luggage for a handful of AA batteries.
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