Most boring road

[pbottomley]

so loads of forums do the old, "what's you fav road" yadda yadda, hows about listing those roads and why that depress you to hell and back.I could start off with the M25, but as luck would have it I don't live near it any-more and motorways are all boring, so lets mention A roads and below.My first proper road to start the list off would be the Nuneaton ring road, a road that has 6 roundabout's, two crossroads with lights and 11 pelican crossings on its two miles of road, not so much of a ring road and more of a circle of hell.

[trigger]

The A12 between Ipswich and Colchester, Just so boring, I have to drive up it 2-4 times a week, Infact I've got to do it all again in a bit, great.

[Guest]

I'd vote for junctions 6-7 of the M56.

 

Mainly because I have to drive on it every day to get to work. And going home is a PITA because they still haven't finished strengthening the bridge to the Lymm roundabout.

 

Also, if you're knackered and driving the final stretch of a leg home, it isn't lit. Aaargh.

 

Next, we have the M62 going to Leeds.

 

MAINLY BECAUSE NO CUNT UNDERSTANDS LANE DISCIPLINE. Oh, you're doing 95 in the outside lane. FUCK YOU, THAT'S NOT FAST ENOUGH FOR ME, I'M AN ASIAN MAN IN A MARK 5 GOLF WHO'S TEXTING AND HAS TO GO FUCKING EVERYWHERE AT 120 MPH, FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU, I'LL JUST GO UP YOUR INSIDE AND WEAVE IN AND OUT OF ALL FOUR LANES LIKE A COMPLETE MONG UNTIL I GET INTO THE OUTSIDE LANE A MILE AND A HALF LATER.

 

FUCK YOU!

 

Also, you can see a massive CarCraft branch from it. I don't want to see that when I'm driving thanks.

[pandamonium]

A19 from the Tyne Tunnel to Middlesborough. I used to drive that every weekend when I was dating the first missus and it used to bore me to tears!

[shite_meister]

I find the A380 between Newton Abbot and Torquay completely dull, usually chock-a-bollock with cars driving at a snails pace although I've found it terminally dull even when clear. Driving through it you are continually thinking 'fuck, am I still on this road?' and you are left with the empty promise of Newton Abbot at one end and the bitter disappointment of Torquay at the other-a highway to hell for sure.The equivalent of sitting through an episode of Big Brother I feel.

[dollywobbler]

The A14 isn't much fun. Tedious boring-ness with the occasional sudden roundabout to wake you up.The A11 to Norwich can be very tedious too, especially where it goes single-carriageway.The A605 between the A14 and Peterborough is another horrendous road during the working day. Endless streams of trucks and few overtaking opportunities make it a road to avoid.

[Milford Cubicle]

I despise the A9/M9 from Aviemore to Stirling, mainly because it's the oft-travelled road home and it feels like it takes forever - a bit of a running theme here. The single carriageway/mile of dual carriageway/single carriageway/mile of dual carriageway sections from Aviemore to Perth are very frustrating too, so I often get tailgated when the traffic in front of me is slow, or have to deal with idiots making death wish overtaking maneuvers coming the other way.120 miles of tedium and moments of horror. GR8 FUN

[VWPowered]

M6 going north at night... no lamps nowt, just long dark lonely road...

[Station]

I'd vote for junctions 6-7 of the M56.

I think the most exciting part of that journey is the scary 'grooves' in the 'slow lane' left from years of HGV cutting it up. I'm surprised nothing has been done yet, they're very deep.There's nothing like tramlining at 80mph.

[pbottomley]

Dolly you reminded me of how good awful going to Norwich is, lovely boring dual carriageway A14 and A11 all the way to Thetford, then the most pointless single carriage road in the UK ...and the monument ain't even worth stopping for Frankly I have avoided going to Middle Earth for about a year now, because that road is so god awful.

[trigger]

Driving to Norwich is depressing, Doesn't get much better when your there to be fair The A140 that goes between the A14 and Norwich is a horrible road with all the 30, 40, 50, 30, 40, 50mph speed restrictions and single file lanes especially when you get stuck behind the inevitable slow moving lorry.

[Guest Tony Hayers]

The A4067 Mumbles Road in Swansea, traffic lights every 200 yds apart for 5 miles Add to that a 40 MPH limit, speed cameras both mobile and fixed and nothing to see apart from King George V playing fields its one hell of a life sapping road.

[Richard]

I despise the A9/M9 from Aviemore to Stirling, mainly because it's the oft-travelled road home and it feels like it takes forever - a bit of a running theme here. The single carriageway/mile of dual carriageway/single carriageway/mile of dual carriageway sections from Aviemore to Perth are very frustrating too, so I often get tailgated when the traffic in front of me is slow, or have to deal with idiots making death wish overtaking manoeuvres coming the other way.120 miles of tedium and moments of horror. GR8 FUN

Funnily enough the A9 came to mind when I saw the thread title. The scenery is beautiful but you can't really take it in because of the suicidal maniacs who want to take you with them. As well as the obligatory testosterone-loaded German turbodiesel drivers there are hundreds of lorries. The supermarket ones, and some others, are tracked by their employers so they stick to their 40mph speed limit- you can imagine what it's like being sandwiched between a 40mph lorry and an incandescent Audi driver with a similar situation coming towards you.

[Cavcraft]

The bit of the M53 (heading North) where the M56 turn off is. Every fucking 'Last Minute Larry' and his wife like in the outside land to get almost level with it before swinging gung-ho across the near side lane piss me right off.Sometimes though they fuck up and realise an HGV isn't actually turning off and find me defending my space behind it so the wankers have to carry on to the next junction. Right or wrong I take particular enjoyment from stopping these wankers making a last minute turn and then smirking at them.The A41 twixt Chester and Whitchurch is another hated road. Every sodding morning someone (quite often the same person) would try and overtake me on blind corners, even worse when it was when I was driving a 7.5 tonne(sp?) box van.

[Gompo]

A17 for me, Newark down to King's Lynn (if you're unlucky) I suppose it's not that bad but in the summer you tend to average 40mph because of all the HGV's collecting fruit/veg etc. Not many overtaking spots and some pretty dull scenery too..

[RedSparrow]

A21 or A259. The roads in and out of Hastings.Both known for being dangerous, congested and generally crap.

[chaseracer]

Can we go outside the UK?If so: the A4 autoroute in eastern France gets my vote. Boring to the extent that they had to install weird multi-coloured sculpture thingies every few Ks to stop people nodding off and punching holes in the non-scenery...

[Talbot]

A303.Schizophrenic in nature, ranging from 30mph single in some villages to wide open dual carriageway with grade-seperated junctions, bloody long, bloody boring, and generally a complete mare to drive along, as you never seem to make any decent progress.

[carlo]

I can still remember the nightmare that was the A4 through Slough from working there twenty years ago. Traffic lights every 100 yards, and they ALWAYS seemed to be on red.

[pogweasel]

A421 from Kempston through to the M1 at J13. Always an utterly horrendous experience, jammed up 24-7 and all you have to look at is the piles of london's rubbish they fill the ground with all around there. It is at last being widened, but this makes it worse as the bits when the traffic DOES move are now restricted to an impossibly tedious 40mph.

[brammy777]

the A9 is HIDEOUSLY boring at times.ive been up and down that road more times than i care to remembermy gran lives in aberfeldy, so ive travveled along that road from perth to grandtully for the past 18 years.Suicidal drivers everywhere, you would have thought the high mortality rate would make people drive safer, but no.I remember once someone overtook us and made an oncoming lorry swerve.have they finished the roadworks yet on the junction directing to aberfeldy?does anyone also remmeber that massive landslip they had on that road? scary stuff.Also the M3 between J5 and 6, accident blackspot, and currently roadworks central.

[whitevanman]

A bit wide ranging I grant but....................A303.......why, why OH why............A9 between Perth and stirling.............Yawn...A71, from the M74 to Kilmarnock.........will it ever end............A41 Borehamwood to M25...............do we really all have to be here???A71 Galashiels to Peebles..........Damn have the Gods really forsaken us this much.?????

[pogweasel]

A41 Borehamwood to M25...............do we really all have to be here???

Do what?Maybe they are all as lost as you if you are trying to get to borehamwood on the A41.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

M6 going north at night... no lamps nowt, just long dark lonely road...

I second this... northbound M6 between junctions 14 and 19. It's a boring, long, straight road, usually quite busy and the junctions are miles apart so you can't escape if there's traffic.

[M'coli]

the A9 is HIDEOUSLY boring at times.ive been up and down that road more times than i care to remembermy gran lives in aberfeldy, so ive travveled along that road from perth to grandtully for the past 18 years.

Grandtully - oddly enough, that's where a lot of my holiday photos are from.

have they finished the roadworks yet on the junction directing to aberfeldy?

No, it was mentioned on Radio Scotland's road watch during the week.(PS Get yourself up beyond Tummel Bridge South of the river and have a look at some 1920's hydro-electric shite)The new A1 around Ferrybridge is dull, dull, dull.

[pogweasel]

The new A1 around Ferrybridge is dull, dull, dull.

Confused the crap outta me though, stopped at Ferrybridge last monday for a piss, some dizzle and a yorkie, the services are now quite isolated on the 'old' bit of A1, and it takes ages for old and new to re-meet going north. I then got the joy of a 'low speed duel' with some squaddies in a land rover all the way up to catterick, I could take them in acceleration, but they obviously had ear-defenders as could top out at about 83, whereas my van is unbearable above 80.

[bigstraight6]

It's all about the stretch of road we have to drive every sodding day, for me the A38 in either direction of Plymouth is rather tedious, because I've driven so many times!, with its rolling Devon hills or the beauty of Cornwall. Honestly, the number of times I've stormed the fearsome Haldon hill just south of Exeter with no thought in mind other than only being 30 minutes from my front door, even with the panoramic vista across Dartmoor at the summit of the hill!But, for a real mind numbingly dull drive, the M4 between Bristol and Reading is my choice.......

[seth]

The A2 heading south from the Blackwall tunnel all the way out to near the M25. Tedious 40 or sometimes 50mph (lots of cameras) even though it's pedestrian free two or three lane dual carriageawy through never ending concrete cuttings or bland suburbia.

[Guest]

When I went to get some Sigma bits off Mr B, the roads around his area were pretty dull - really straight and flat, usually no lights. Was an enjoyable trip back though, just me and the radio.

[Pillock]

A17 for me, Newark down to King's Lynn (if you're unlucky) I suppose it's not that bad but in the summer you tend to average 40mph because of all the HGV's collecting fruit/veg etc. Not many overtaking spots and some pretty dull scenery too..

Yeah, right with you there!Fugging hate that road, just endless single-carrigeway dotted with tiny roundabouts where knobs in Golf TDIs always try and take you on the inside, gaining one whole position in a line of fifteen hundred cars and an HGV.