[url=https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.75954 ... 384!8i8192]A bit of 10 year old newbuild A16 clearly shows you where the rivers used to run, they're resurfacing bits of it (again) but only the top layer so instead of flattening the bumps you get shiny new ones instead.CallumParry wrote: ↑Tue Jan 04, 2022 18:49Chat Moss reclaiming the motorway , by my retirement it might give the A68 North of Hexham a run for it's money with it's undulationsBryn666 wrote: ↑Tue Jan 04, 2022 15:17 The M62 either side of the Pennines is absolutely boring and tedious to drive. Even the rollercoaster effect of where Chat Moss is slowly reclaiming the motorway can't save it.
I refer you to Chris Marshall's theory that all motorways are built with an excitement quota and this gets used up quickly leaving boring to death segments.
It's the only way you can explain the M4 which has superb bits geekwise linked by sections so tediously dull you die of old age before reaching the next bit.
Is the M62 east of Leeds the most boring motorway for scenery?
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The long uninterrupted section of M2 between J5 and J6 is incredibly dull, but maybe because it's often elephant racing with no junctions (or that I used to drive it several times a week)
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I agree with Pathetic Motorways and have I Got News For You!
It just goes on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on straight and flat through a featureless landscape. There's nothing to see apart from a large car park and some ditches. Even when you get to the end it just carries on. At least you get there quickly, it's the only motorway you could get a speeding fine in the inside lane in the rush hour.
It just goes on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on straight and flat through a featureless landscape. There's nothing to see apart from a large car park and some ditches. Even when you get to the end it just carries on. At least you get there quickly, it's the only motorway you could get a speeding fine in the inside lane in the rush hour.
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I deduced that, was just being difficult!Big L wrote: ↑Wed Jan 05, 2022 22:03The section of M5 from the M50 to Bromsgrove, maybe?unrepentantfool wrote: ↑Wed Jan 05, 2022 16:21The M50 round Bromsgrove?! I like this alternate reality where the M50 continues as a M5 relief road to the M42 (not quite the Strensham to Solihull motorway though).Bfivethousand wrote: ↑Sun Jan 02, 2022 17:32 M69. All of it!!
There are also sections of the M5 which are pretty nondescript such as between Clevedon and Weston and the M50 up to Bromsgrove.
I'd also concur with call of the A1(M) though...
Re: Is the M62 east of Leeds the most boring motorway for scenery?
Hard to argue with the M180 however it uses all of it's 'excitement quota' at the Trent bridge then thats it. I suppose it does have that over the likes of the M57/58 etc.
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It'd relieve the monotony of the M180 if someone was to construct a work of art near Scunthorpe commemorating the town - something to do with steel. I can't think of anything else Scunthorpe is famous for.
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It's name causing problems with certain anti-swearing filters, perhaps?
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Re: Is the M62 east of Leeds the most boring motorway for scenery?
There is something to be said for any bit of UK road and the UK being the size it is, the boring bits don't tend to go on for too long. Yes some of the least interting bits are where there are long gaps between junctions, or flat countryside or motorway in a cutting. So bits of the M40, A1(M), M11 and yes in particular the M180. As long as you are at least moving. Boring countryside I can put up with at 70 mph. Being stuck is another matter and the M25 in Essex has not been my friend over the last few years and I've documented much displeasure at spending hours looking at a cuttings either side of J28. I never really want to repeat those experiences.
Anything we have in the boring stakes is outdone by some roads overseas. I've been on some really boring bits of motorway in France (The A26 can be a very long drag through flat countryside), Belgium and in Florida in particular. I've mentioned US27 through the bottom half of Florida before and this for mile after mile can certainly drag. There must be much in the midwest that is even longer and I'm sure some of our correspondents have done cross country in the US on some truly tedious roads.
Anything we have in the boring stakes is outdone by some roads overseas. I've been on some really boring bits of motorway in France (The A26 can be a very long drag through flat countryside), Belgium and in Florida in particular. I've mentioned US27 through the bottom half of Florida before and this for mile after mile can certainly drag. There must be much in the midwest that is even longer and I'm sure some of our correspondents have done cross country in the US on some truly tedious roads.
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In the past it used to be described as "a traffic jam moving at 80mph".Norfolktolancashire wrote: ↑Tue Jan 04, 2022 22:37That section of the M6 has to be one of the most boring sections.
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Re: Is the M62 east of Leeds the most boring motorway for scenery?
And that's dull compared to the impressive Ouse Bridge on the M62.