PINBALL
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- Jun 20, 2005
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Who are these idiots who display silly things like 'tiredness can kill' and 'take a break' when there's nowhere to take one.
Drove up to Hereford just before the snows came last week at 3 am, mainly to miss the traffic and have a leisurely drive without rushing.
NO advance warning from Heathrow that M4 was completely closed at J12, or even any diversion signs that would have at least helped 30 or so truckers to have some idea of how to get a direction and queued up on the off slip road.
Turned out that J12 - J15 was closed that no doubt had 6 men doing the work of 2
Used up 20 extra miles getting to next junction 13, only to find that one closed off too - all because some numskull couldn't be bothered to say how many junctions were closed on the sign lit up 3-4 mile before J12.
When touring in EEC on many an occasion over the last 30 years these signs have always had useful if not informative info like temperature and time, particularly in icy weather.
If were going to spend millions on clever orange signs to better keep the motorist informed, then why do we have to put up with prats who seem to be completely out of touch with conditions and circumstances.
I particularly like the way they make you reduce your speed down to 40 or less for 6-8 miles saying 'incident in road, only to find there is no incident to be seen anywhere and no ALL CLEAR at the end of it all.
They must get through a lot of tea / sleep or play games in those so-called information centres, and are obviously the cheapest employees they can find.
Drove up to Hereford just before the snows came last week at 3 am, mainly to miss the traffic and have a leisurely drive without rushing.
NO advance warning from Heathrow that M4 was completely closed at J12, or even any diversion signs that would have at least helped 30 or so truckers to have some idea of how to get a direction and queued up on the off slip road.
Turned out that J12 - J15 was closed that no doubt had 6 men doing the work of 2
Used up 20 extra miles getting to next junction 13, only to find that one closed off too - all because some numskull couldn't be bothered to say how many junctions were closed on the sign lit up 3-4 mile before J12.
When touring in EEC on many an occasion over the last 30 years these signs have always had useful if not informative info like temperature and time, particularly in icy weather.
If were going to spend millions on clever orange signs to better keep the motorist informed, then why do we have to put up with prats who seem to be completely out of touch with conditions and circumstances.
I particularly like the way they make you reduce your speed down to 40 or less for 6-8 miles saying 'incident in road, only to find there is no incident to be seen anywhere and no ALL CLEAR at the end of it all.
They must get through a lot of tea / sleep or play games in those so-called information centres, and are obviously the cheapest employees they can find.