M40 on Saturday

[brollyman]

Anyone else get caught up in the traffic on Saturday?

I spent 10 (yes that's right 10) hours to do the 200 miles from Surrey to Manchester on Saturday......

It was an interesting experience - as you can imagine, the bank next to the motorway became an impromtu toilet and one young girl in front of me actually climbed the banking and dropped off a brown shark in the bushes!!!

At one point i noticed that my satnav said I had 105 miles to go - five and a half hours later I had 104 miles to go!!!

I am sure that there were children conceived in that queue...

[XTC]

Anyone else get caught up in the traffic on Saturday?

I spent 10 (yes that's right 10) hours to do the 200 miles from Surrey to Manchester on Saturday......

It was an interesting experience - as you can imagine, the bank next to the motorway became an impromtu toilet and one young girl in front of me actually climbed the banking and dropped off a brown shark in the bushes!!!

At one point i noticed that my satnav said I had 105 miles to go - five and a half hours later I had 104 miles to go!!!

I am sure that there were children conceived in that queue...

No I didn't, but spent 7 hours in a jam last year on the M1. I was getting so frustrated I thought I was going to do a Michael Douglas/Falling down and go a bit psycho. I feel your pain brother.

[Burdock]

Anyone else get caught up in the traffic on Saturday?

I spent 10 (yes that's right 10) hours to do the 200 miles from Surrey to Manchester on Saturday......

It was an interesting experience - as you can imagine, the bank next to the motorway became an impromtu toilet and one young girl in front of me actually climbed the banking and dropped off a brown shark in the bushes!!!

At one point i noticed that my satnav said I had 105 miles to go - five and a half hours later I had 104 miles to go!!!

I am sure that there were children conceived in that queue...

crikey! what caused it? 20ft flood? alien invasion? dirty bomb?

[Let-Me-In]

crikey! what caused it? 20ft flood? alien invasion? dirty bomb?

Women drivers more than likely...

[The Lone Gunman]

Makes me feel better about my (now not so) epic on Thursday.

[Burdock]

I'm waiting to see how Troll will suggest that a 10yr old 4x4 will have solved the problem

[brollyman]

It was a fuel tanker which ruptured between J15 and J16 - they cleared all the spilled fuel, but it had attacked the tarmac and they had to re-surface the motorway.........

Traffic managment was non-existant

[Paddy]

Anyone else get caught up in the traffic on Saturday?

I spent 10 (yes that's right 10) hours to do the 200 miles from Surrey to Manchester on Saturday......

It was an interesting experience - as you can imagine, the bank next to the motorway became an impromtu toilet and one young girl in front of me actually climbed the banking and dropped off a brown shark in the bushes!!!

At one point i noticed that my satnav said I had 105 miles to go - five and a half hours later I had 104 miles to go!!!

I am sure that there were children conceived in that queue...

I bought TomTom with the traffic updates and so it diverts me well before hand. It is worth every penny and more.

[The Lone Gunman]

I bought TomTom with the traffic updates and so it diverts me well before hand. It is worth every penny and more.

How does the updates work?
I have been considering this option.

[Clippy]

It was a fuel tanker which ruptured between J15 and J16 - they cleared all the spilled fuel, but it had attacked the tarmac and they had to re-surface the motorway.........

Traffic managment was non-existant

I had a similar experience on the M40 on a Saturday in Spring.

A truck caught fire and the motorway became a car park for about 5hrs.

Moral of the story, stay away from the M40 on Saturdays!