Snake Pass to close?

[grogee]

Brilliant thread and I haven't got any great puns to add. 

I'm going to Eyam (Buxton/Bakewell ish) later this week, would I be able to sample the delights of the Snake Pass without too much of a detour? 

[mintwth]

1 hour ago, comfortablynumb said:

So if they have no legs, how are they going to pass then?

Sorry.....

They pass windily.....best give it a few minutes

[reb]

2 minutes ago, Tayne said:

And you moan about the graphic design on Range Rover steering wheels….

I'm not a premium vehicle. I'm a human who made questionable decisions wrt an eBay tattoo machine 10 years ago.

[Jim Bell]

3 minutes ago, grogee said:

Brilliant thread and I haven't got any great puns to add. 

I'm going to Eyam (Buxton/Bakewell ish) later this week, would I be able to sample the delights of the Snake Pass without too much of a detour? 

I'm sure it wouldn't take long to adder little diversion. Looks like rain so make sure your windscreen vipers work. 

[Jim Bell]

All the arguing and differences of opinion we have in here, it's nice to see people just having a daft laugh and carry on. 

 

Slow worm. 

[grogee]

11 minutes ago, Jim Bell said:

I'm sure it wouldn't take long to adder little diversion. Looks like rain so make sure your windscreen vipers work. 

You'd get on with my stepdad, he is good at shit dad jokes too

[mintwth]

1 hour ago, grogee said:

Brilliant thread and I haven't got any great puns to add. 

I'm going to Eyam (Buxton/Bakewell ish) later this week, would I be able to sample the delights of the Snake Pass without too much of a detour? 

Eyam's not far away (or is Snake Pass too close?) ...but you have to isolate in Eyam, if you're bubonic

[comfortablynumb]

Can even go & see the Dambusters practice site @grogee👍

[cobblers]

1 hour ago, grogee said:

Brilliant thread and I haven't got any great puns to add. 

I'm going to Eyam (Buxton/Bakewell ish) later this week, would I be able to sample the delights of the Snake Pass without too much of a detour? 

It's about 12 miles from Eyam, go from eyam, through hathersage and then right at bamford, eventually you end up at ladybower which is the western end of it. 

I've lived a few miles from it for 5 years and never felt the need to drive it - always some fucker in your way. If you really know the road you'll know where to overtake, but otherwise it's 40-50mph road with decent views. Loads of other roads in the area that are quite similar.

 

 

[grogee]

2 minutes ago, cobblers said:

It's about 12 miles from Eyam, go from eyam, through hathersage and then right at bamford, eventually you end up at ladybower which is the western end of it. 

I've lived a few miles from it for 5 years and never felt the need to drive it - always some fucker in your way. If you really know the road you'll know where to overtake, but otherwise it's 40-50mph road with decent views. Loads of other roads in the area that are quite similar.

 

 

All of those place names make me think of this

[comfortablynumb]

When I was delivering demonstration vehicles, I would use the pass rather than the motorways.

Frequently where there was bad weather (not snow obvs) I'd drive straight through to Glossop, listening to the traffic reports on the radio saying how bad the delays were!

And then I'd get to the delivery point, and either get 'how come you're here already?' , or have to wait a couple of hours for another driver to get through to pick me up.

[Tayne]

12 hours ago, comfortablynumb said:

 

As one of the greatest driving routes in the UK, that would be a great loss.

 

 

Did you mean to write "in England" ?

 

I bought a car from Sheffield a few years ago and was excited to drive the Snake Pass on the way home. Whilst i'm sure its brilliant if you live nearby and need it (and I have no desire to see it closed), I was quite disappointed with it as a driving road.

I'd reccomend you take a road trip around Scotland. And Wales.

[comfortablynumb]

2 minutes ago, Tayne said:

Did you mean to write "in England" ?

No

[cobblers]

3 minutes ago, grogee said:

All of those place names make me think of this

League of Gentlemen was filmed in Hadfield, which is handily right at the end of Snake pass!

[treehugger]

I will have to remamba some of this for later when I'm eating my piethon and chips. 

[reb]

2 minutes ago, treehugger said:

I will have to remamba some of this for later when I'm eating my piethon and chips. 

Boa-locks

[loserone]

1 hour ago, comfortablynumb said:

No

Agree, it's pretty miserable as roads go even for England 

[Matty]

1 hour ago, cobblers said:

League of Gentlemen was filmed in Hadfield, which is handily right at the end of Snake pass!

As i remember when scouting for locations, one of the places they looked at was Bacup which is one of the towns in the valley where I live. Apparently it was so close to the vision in their heads it freaked them out completely. I believe Sheersmith said they wouldn't even have needed extras 🤣

[loserone]

Just to remind myself I wasn't missing anything I just flipped onto YouTube to check I'd not forgotten about some amazing corners and the first video is this.

Nose to tail with a fiat 500 the whole way, count how many cars come past the other way.  Double white lines along half of it, anyone making half decent progress is soon stuck behind the rest and very few spots to overtake a queue unless you have stupid power.  And that's eleven years ago, it's surely worse now.

 

It may as well be a flipping supermarket carpark.

 

I could see that it could be pretty at the right time of day, check out these arty shots of a silver Toyota Corolla 

But no.   Much like many other "great driving roads", it's way too busy to be much fun at any time other than sunrise in the summer.

 

 

[mintwth]

Planes, 

Trains 

And Automobiles

 

[tooSavvy]

Just the once.....

🚙💨

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

1 hour ago, loserone said:

Just to remind myself I wasn't missing anything I just flipped onto YouTube to check I'd not forgotten about some amazing corners and the first video is this.

Nose to tail with a fiat 500 the whole way, count how many cars come past the other way.  Double white lines along half of it, anyone making half decent progress is soon stuck behind the rest and very few spots to overtake a queue unless you have stupid power.  And that's eleven years ago, it's surely worse now.

 

It may as well be a flipping supermarket carpark.

 

I could see that it could be pretty at the right time of day, check out these arty shots of a silver Toyota Corolla 

But no.   Much like many other "great driving roads", it's way too busy to be much fun at any time other than sunrise in the summer.

 

 

I drove it last week, middle of a week day and it was actually a really pleasant drive. Not much traffic, a couple of easy overtakes only one of which got me a flash of main beams by a deranged OAP doing 35 in some shit Kia. 

My beef with the snake is not its quality as a driving road, it's that it is the main signposted route between two very large northern cities in a supposedly developed country.

and bear in mind at the Manchester end the route starts off looking like this:

Which might trick the unwary into believing they are driving between two major cities in a developed country.

alas...

[mintwth]

1 hour ago, Conrad D. Conelrad said:

Which might trick the unwary into believing they are driving between two major cities in a developed country.

Nah, in a developed country the mass transit route between two major cities would look more like

[Metal Guru]

9 hours ago, Pieman said:

Or the anacHonda NSX?

Other cars allowed would be a Herald snake, a Hundred Pacer, the Racer and the Sunbeam

The Canebrake would also be allowed but not with Scottish drivers.

[somewhatfoolish]

3 hours ago, Conrad D. Conelrad said:

I drove it last week, middle of a week day and it was actually a really pleasant drive. Not much traffic, a couple of easy overtakes only one of which got me a flash of main beams by a deranged OAP doing 35 in some shit Kia. 

My beef with the snake is not its quality as a driving road, it's that it is the main signposted route between two very large northern cities in a supposedly developed country.

and bear in mind at the Manchester end the route starts off looking like this:

Which might trick the unwary into believing they are driving between two major cities in a developed country.

alas...

The A82 has entered the chat. One of Scotland's main trunk routes, just a normal section of single track controlled by traffic lights round a lump of rock. Nothing to see here, move along but obvs only when the light changes. 🤣

[New POD]

10 hours ago, cobblers said:

League of Gentlemen was filmed in Hadfield, which is handily right at the end of Snake pass!

Hadfield? My memories of it are vague, having lived there from aged 1 to aged 5. 

I do remember escaping from Nursery school and almost getting home before being captured by a frantic "teacher" and taken back to spend the afternoon standing up facing a wall. 

My other memory is Snow. 

[Stinkwheel]

9 hours ago, Conrad D. Conelrad said:

My beef with the snake is not its quality as a driving road, it's that it is the main signposted route between two very large northern cities in a supposedly developed country.

Driven in Wales much? You will find, fortunately (or unfortunately depending on viewpoint) that virtually all places in Wales, major town or otherwise, are connected by roads that look much like snake pass. And as for it being the best driving road, thats debateable, anyone whos ever driven hellfire pass (Bwlch y Groes, real name) So good that pre war Austin, Triumph/Standard all used it for testing new vehicles. I found the one of the best drives I've ever had was when 3 of us in 2CV's hammered across it flat stick all the way and as we came out the other end all had cooked/fading brakes. 

[comfortablynumb]

5 hours ago, somewhatfoolish said:

The A82 has entered the chat

'The A82'? Come on, @somewhatfoolish, where's the magic in that? Where's the humour? That's like saying 'The Thorney bypass'! Where are we going to go with the puns on that?

Sorry, A82, must try harder🤣

[warch]

12 hours ago, Tayne said:

Did you mean to write "in England" ?

I bought a car from Sheffield a few years ago and was excited to drive the Snake Pass on the way home. Whilst i'm sure its brilliant if you live nearby and need it (and I have no desire to see it closed), I was quite disappointed with it as a driving road.

I'd reccomend you take a road trip around Scotland. And Wales.

As ever it's down to population density really. And seasonal popularity. I can see why people in parts of Wales of Scotland have an issue with endless tourists and people coming to drive or ride around the place especially as the former tend to clog the place up somewhat and the latter tend to end up spattered across the scenery causing road closures and hassle for the local emergency services.  But as someone who spends most of their working live driving around mid-Wales it is an enthusiast's dream, just expect to get overtaken by a local in a Transit van/scaffolding lorry, they don't hang about and don't like been held up.

 

[wuvvum]

9 hours ago, mintwth said:

Nah, in a developed country the mass transit route between two major cities would look more like

You can actually go directly from Sheffield to Manchester by train, I've done so many times, but the route goes across the Peak District not too far south of the Snake Pass and isn't electrified so it's not exactly fast.