Pathetic Motorways.

[nffc]

Just to firstly say this isn't my site nor do I have any connections with it, so it's not spamming, advertising or cheap plugging. Honest.

Anyway, it's what it says! Pathetic Motorways... featuring the A6144(M)- the only 2-lane single carriageway motorway... others that never got built, etc etc.

Funny, but pointless, and not at all geeky...

It's here. http://www.pathetic.org.uk

[Ramrod]

What a strange site

[Millay]

Yea thanks for that nffc, I spent a good couple of hours last night (early hours of the morning) learning all about motorways, I then followed a link that led me to a site with a history of road signs and a history of 1950's street lamps...

[Nugget]

Hee hee - almost my entire journey to work is on Pathetic Motorways! I particularly enjoyed the descriptions:

M180

OK, it's empty of traffic. Except for miles upon miles of trucks. I have never been on any motorway with such a high proportion of HGVs.

Its entire point is to speed these trucks to the docks at Grimsby, and it doesn't manage to do that properly. It gives up 15 miles too soon, and turns into the A180. The A180 is one of these so-called "Expressways": A motorway done on the cheap with no hard shoulders.

And it's deadly dull, like its spur, the M181.

M181

OK, it's only two miles (3.75km) long. And it's in the middle of nowhere. And it's just an overgrown sliproad. And it's pretty much dead straight.

So, it's pretty pathetic then?
Yes, it is. Although it does manage a massively over-ambitious junction with the M180: delusions of grandeur, if ever I saw them.

It's also the only spur motorway of a spur motorway in Britain.

It's just deadly dull.

Judging by that, it's a surprise that I haven't nodded off and ended up at Doncaster every morning

[AndrewJ]

Have the gps system a friend of mine has which is faulty, and is constantly telling him how to drive to Belfast :S

[nffc]

Originally Posted by Ramrod

What a strange site

Yes. Some of it is pretty funny though.