Reply to: UK's least favourite motorway revealed as drivers brand it 'road to hell'

[LondonManc]

I wondered what Anderson and Rooney did in training at Carrington.

[vetran]

Middle one is my image of Scooty.

[OwlHoot]

My big problem with the M25, especially between say the M4 and the A1, is the interminable number of gantries, most with speed cameras.

[PurpleGorilla]

Next 5 years virtual reality will mean we won't travel to work. The robots will work in shops and drones will deliver our food and amazon orders.

Busy motorways will be a thing of the past, so governments are taking a long term view.

Think this is far fetched well already my Amazon echo can have an alarm set by voice command.

[woohoo]

Next 5 years virtual reality will mean we won't travel to work. The robots will work in shops and drones will deliver our food and amazon orders.

Busy motorways will be a thing of the past, so governments are taking a long term view.

Think this is far fetched well already my Amazon echo can have an alarm set by voice command.

[MrMarkyMark]

May your struggle be short lived.

It was actually.
I was struggling to understand why you cared and then realised you are such a total muppet, I should never be surprised what you do

[scooterscot]

Try building a motorway through an area which is either a national park or an AONB (and most of the bit between Portsmouth and Dover is one or the other), and see how far you get. Swampy and his ilk would have been in their element. A tube extension to the moon would have been child's play by comparison.

So it's all moorland? Should be easy to dig a tunnel then. Norwegians tunnel through granite, what's our excuse?

[scooterscot]

Struggling to understand why the OP really GAS, he's Scottish, lives in Germany and doesn't have to endure using the M25 in any case

May your struggle be short lived.

[jamesbrown]

UK's least favourite country: Scotland

[Mordac]

Struggling to understand why the OP really GAS, he's Scottish, lives in Germany and doesn't have to endure using the M25 in any case

Spooner would refer to him as an obfoctious nuckwit...

[Mordac]

The funding was not for MPs to spend on a jolly. In order to receive the funding, the government had to actually build a motorway, something which seems a rather difficult and longwinded task with compulsory purchase of land etc. The other part was political, especially with the Tory Government; they were embarrassed to admit that the UK were being funded to upgrade the UK's 3rd world road infrastructure.

Try building a motorway through an area which is either a national park or an AONB (and most of the bit between Portsmouth and Dover is one or the other), and see how far you get. Swampy and his ilk would have been in their element. A tube extension to the moon would have been child's play by comparison.

[MrMarkyMark]

Nice, wide bike lanes though....

Struggling to understand why the OP really GAS, he's Scottish, lives in Germany and doesn't have to endure using the M25 in any case

[greenlake]

No prizes for guessing, the M25 takes the crown. Just wait until the traffic servicing the third runway at Heathrow joins the party.

Nice, wide bike lanes though....

[Paddy]

So in other words, we should have stumped up the cash to build it ourselves then rely on a "EU Pledge" to get our capital outlay back?
Mmm...can't see any flaws in THAT logic. I mean the EU are "all over" honouring pledges. Much like their annual "pledge" to publish audited and properly costed accounts every year.

Other countries manage to build motorways in stages and on time and receive the funding. In particular, local authorities have not got a good reputation of spending money on roads that have been allocated to them. The money gets spent elsewhere

[shaunbhoy]

The funding was not for MPs to spend on a jolly. In order to receive the funding, the government had to actually build a motorway, something which seems a rather difficult and longwinded task with compulsory purchase of land etc.

So in other words, we should have stumped up the cash to build it ourselves then rely on a "EU Pledge" to get our capital outlay back?
Mmm...can't see any flaws in THAT logic. I mean the EU are "all over" honouring pledges. Much like their annual "pledge" to publish audited and properly costed accounts every year.