M25 Godstone

M25 at 15.19 on a Thursday, looking west towards Godstone.

Traffic density looks fairly normal, and makes me glad to be out on my bicycle! I sometime wonder if the drivers and passengers look up at a passing cyclist and think "wish it was me".

Whatever happened to England's green and pleasant land?

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• M25
• Car
• Lorry
• Truck
• Motorway
• Congestion

[rzigmu]

Jeez! If that's normal, what does a jam look like? What's the anual average daily traffic of the M25?

[pgtrimming]

I don't know about daily traffic density, but further west, the motorway is 4 lane, and looks equally bad. Jams can be many miles long!

[KINGANDCASTLE]

Whatever happened to England's green and pleasant land? Dr Beeching messed it up!

[pgtrimming]

Very true, Bernard. We got motorways in exchange for railways! Those branch lines must have been wonderful, judging by some of the "preserved" railways which we now have.

[killaoflimmus]

If people did 70 in the outer 2/3 lanes and got on with it there wouldn't be half as much congestion on British roads. When you get to France and Germany, they don't muck about, they get on with it. I love driving on the continent for that reason. And when they do roadworks over there they do it quickly, not sitting about talking in their dumper trucks. Britain, how did we become the nation that we are now?

[Blackwavealmighty]

That's nothing. That stretch of M25 is normally solid. Why they don't bother to make that section four lanes is beyond me!

[timmo2k]

currently it stands at 420,000 vehicles a day, rising at an annual rate of 6%

[doughnoughtproductio]

Do u know i was talking to this guy at chasewater and his saying that soon heratige railways will hve to be prepared to do commute services i think his right the branch lines need 2 be brought back!