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From: Grimly Curmudgeon on 22 Jun 2010 07:18 We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "Hog" <sm911SPAM(a)CHIPShotmail.co.uk> saying something like: >A short discussion ensued with the conclusion that said gate was too sturdy >to be rammed at which point chappy in van joins the queue. Eureka, white >van man is "impressively equipped". A matter of moments and we were free. Good stuff. Come to think of it, a battery a/g would be bloody useful in mine. Otoh, if I fit the inverter, the mains one will do - no problem with extensions.
From: Malc on 22 Jun 2010 07:26 On 22 June, 11:04, "Hog" <sm911S...(a)CHIPShotmail.co.uk> wrote: > A crowbar. A hacksaw. Possibly a battery power angle grinder. > So the moral of the tale might be when stuck in an extended piece of > motorway madness get your laptop/modem out and scour google maps for escape > routes in the knowledge that your boot contains appropriate engineering > appliances. Which of course mine now once again does. > There are a couple on the M5 just sourth of Gloucester but the gates are directly off the hard shoulder so you'd be angle grinding the locks in full view of everyone. > There was a time when Plod et all made it a priority to clear roads and by > all available means get traffic moving, off the road if required or back up > the opposite carriageway. It appears current policy is to leave the stranded > traffic for as long as possible with no consideration for the problems that > may arise. Not helped by the removal of all gates and open overlaps in > central reservations. > I presume the minimal chance of someone hitting the gap in the central reservation has caused the H&S wallahs to close them off. -- Malc
From: Grimly Curmudgeon on 22 Jun 2010 08:28 We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Malc <malwhite(a)blueyonder.co.uk> saying something like: >> Not helped by the removal of all gates and open overlaps in >> central reservations. >> >I presume the minimal chance of someone hitting the gap in the central >reservation has caused the H&S wallahs to close them off. I suspect the number of utter eejits /arseholes /dumbfucks who use the gaps as a U-turn opportunity when full traffic flow is occurring in both or the other carriageway has something to do with it also.
From: Hog on 22 Jun 2010 09:00 Grimly Curmudgeon wrote: > We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the > drugs began to take hold. I remember Malc <malwhite(a)blueyonder.co.uk> > saying something like: > >>> Not helped by the removal of all gates and open overlaps in >>> central reservations. >>> >> I presume the minimal chance of someone hitting the gap in the >> central reservation has caused the H&S wallahs to close them off. > > I suspect the number of utter eejits /arseholes /dumbfucks who use the > gaps as a U-turn opportunity when full traffic flow is occurring in > both or the other carriageway has something to do with it also. What the motorway system needed was gates. Locked gates that the Patrols or Plod could open. Every couple of miles. Then they could use cones to stream lane 3 into the reverse traffic flow and disperse traffic when they know the road will be blocked for hours. That and immediately closing the motorway at preceding junctions and taking traffic off before it reaches the blockage. Considering the central barriers have been replaced in the past few years it was a complete fuckup. -- Hog
From: CT on 22 Jun 2010 09:25
Hog wrote: > A short discussion ensued with the conclusion that said gate was too > sturdy to be rammed at which point chappy in van joins the queue. > Eureka, white van man is "impressively equipped". A matter of > moments and we were free. So who owned the gate & padlock and who's going to cough up to criminal damage? -- Chris |