Traffic armageddon with Neasden Postlethwaite
The M5 goes a bit wonky at this time of year. It just does.
When I worked in Bristol in the mid-eighties, the Friday afternoon drive back up to Cheltenham would start badly because traffic would be tailed back on the M4 up to the Almondsbury junction with the M5, and it's only ever got worse.
The last decade or so, one's sometimes seen southbound tailbacks when beetling north. Not many, and the absolute worst I've seen the things is nearing the Thornbury exit.
Today is was solid and unmoving traffic, with odd pockets of space, all the way up to the Stroud junction.
Poking the Twitters revealed that most of the M5 was like that. Which, holy crap, dude. There must have been signs at Saltash and Launceston reading "Kernow is full; piss off home."
... Which meant, oh noes, that we had to stick around the Cotswolds for longer than immediately anticipated. Thus there was diesel-powered beetling up the GWR which was jolly nice. We'll just have to go back and do the steam-powered half during the week.
When I worked in Bristol in the mid-eighties, the Friday afternoon drive back up to Cheltenham would start badly because traffic would be tailed back on the M4 up to the Almondsbury junction with the M5, and it's only ever got worse.
The last decade or so, one's sometimes seen southbound tailbacks when beetling north. Not many, and the absolute worst I've seen the things is nearing the Thornbury exit.
Today is was solid and unmoving traffic, with odd pockets of space, all the way up to the Stroud junction.
Poking the Twitters revealed that most of the M5 was like that. Which, holy crap, dude. There must have been signs at Saltash and Launceston reading "Kernow is full; piss off home."
... Which meant, oh noes, that we had to stick around the Cotswolds for longer than immediately anticipated. Thus there was diesel-powered beetling up the GWR which was jolly nice. We'll just have to go back and do the steam-powered half during the week.