#motorways — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #motorways, aggregated by home.social.
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We think #traffic jams need a trigger: #accident, #roadworks, lane closure
The most frustrating queues have no obvious cause at all. These are known as phantom traffic jams
Researchers asked 22 drivers to drive circular track & maintain constant speed & safe distance from vehicle in front
In minutes tiny, unavoidable braking differences grew into stop-start wave that travelled continuously around the circuit; Yet there being no obstacle anywhere
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We think #traffic jams need a trigger: #accident, #roadworks, lane closure
The most frustrating queues have no obvious cause at all. These are known as phantom traffic jams
Researchers asked 22 drivers to drive circular track & maintain constant speed & safe distance from vehicle in front
In minutes tiny, unavoidable braking differences grew into stop-start wave that travelled continuously around the circuit; Yet there being no obstacle anywhere
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Lets pause a minute to ask perhaps the most consequential Q. that many of us will confront this summer....
when you're stuck in a traffic jam on the motorway, should you change lanes to the one that seems to be moving the fastest?
Here's a holistic analysis (and conclusion) suggesting changing lanes doesn't work.... Its an interesting argument but doesn't completely accord with my own experience as a frequent user of the M6.
https://theconversation.com/dont-change-lanes-the-maths-of-holiday-traffic-jams-287389
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Lets pause a minute to ask perhaps the most consequential Q. that many of us will confront this summer....
when you're stuck in a traffic jam on the motorway, should you change lanes to the one that seems to be moving the fastest?
Here's a holistic analysis (and conclusion) suggesting changing lanes doesn't work.... Its an interesting argument but doesn't completely accord with my own experience as a frequent user of the M6.
https://theconversation.com/dont-change-lanes-the-maths-of-holiday-traffic-jams-287389
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M25 traffic RECAP: Two hour traffic jams after horror coach fire
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/m25-traffic-live-lanes-closed-37322628
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M5 traffic live: Motorway closed because of 'people in the road' as cops swarm
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/m5-traffic-live-somerset-police-37289673
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M48 Severn Bridge emergency live: Serious police incident leaves crossing closed
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UK drivers who own a sat nav, phone or pet issued £5,200 fine warning
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/motoring/uk-drivers-who-sat-nav-37196227
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"‘Six lanes of tarmac and vehicles doing 70mph’: can ‘green bridges’ help animals cross the UK’s motorways in safety?"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Animals #Motorways
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/may/12/cockrow-green-bridge-wildlife-road-crossings-aoe
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"‘Six lanes of tarmac and vehicles doing 70mph’: can ‘green bridges’ help animals cross the UK’s motorways in safety?"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Animals #Motorways
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/may/12/cockrow-green-bridge-wildlife-road-crossings-aoe
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Good work by #lorry driver - keeping occupants of small car that has broken down on "smart" #motorway safe and calling nines so #Police and #NationalHighways are aware - it took 5 mins on 999 call, and 13 further minutes for National Highways to arrive on scene, and #drivers are barely noticing stationary lorry (further ahead the matrix sign is showing "national speed limit", which suggests there has already been a restriction on previous signs so drivers are likely trying to accelerate to get back to 70mph (112 km/h)
These smart #motorways are not safe (thankfully there are no further ones being built)
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Good work by #lorry driver - keeping occupants of small car that has broken down on "smart" #motorway safe and calling nines so #Police and #NationalHighways are aware - it took 5 mins on 999 call, and 13 further minutes for National Highways to arrive on scene, and #drivers are barely noticing stationary lorry (further ahead the matrix sign is showing "national speed limit", which suggests there has already been a restriction on previous signs so drivers are likely trying to accelerate to get back to 70mph (112 km/h)
These smart #motorways are not safe (thankfully there are no further ones being built)
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What's The Deal With "THAT" CONCRETE Section of the M25 MOTORWAY?
Oh god, I hate driving on that bit. Well, I hate driving on all bits of the M25 to be fair, but that bit in particular is 'orrible.
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What's The Deal With "THAT" CONCRETE Section of the M25 MOTORWAY?
Oh god, I hate driving on that bit. Well, I hate driving on all bits of the M25 to be fair, but that bit in particular is 'orrible.
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What's The Deal With "THAT" CONCRETE Section of the M25 MOTORWAY?
Oh god, I hate driving on that bit. Well, I hate driving on all bits of the M25 to be fair, but that bit in particular is 'orrible.
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What's The Deal With "THAT" CONCRETE Section of the M25 MOTORWAY?
Oh god, I hate driving on that bit. Well, I hate driving on all bits of the M25 to be fair, but that bit in particular is 'orrible.
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What's The Deal With "THAT" CONCRETE Section of the M25 MOTORWAY?
Oh god, I hate driving on that bit. Well, I hate driving on all bits of the M25 to be fair, but that bit in particular is 'orrible.
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Verdi, the service‑industry union, has urged the employees of the federal Autobahn GmbH to take part in strikes, protests and other actions on 23 and 24 Februar... https://news.osna.fm/?p=35109 | #news #german #hike #motorways #push
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Achieving meaningful lives within planetary boundaries?
"Renewables are already much cheaper than fossil fuels. Alas, fossil fuels are up to three times as profitable. Thus capital forces governments to link electricity prices to the price of the most expensive liquified natural gas, not of cheap solar energy. Similarly, building and maintaining motorways is many times more lucrative for private contractors, car manufacturers and oil companies than a modern network of superfast, safe public railways. So capitalists continue to push our governments to subsidise fossil fuels and road building, even while the world burns."
"...Capital uses every tool at its disposal – debt, sanctions, coups and even outright military invasion to keep southern economies subordinate."
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We can move beyond the capitalist model and save the climate – here are the first three steps, Jason Hickel and Yanis Varoufakis
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/commentisfree/2026/feb/12/capitalist-model-climate-growth-capitalism-species-humanity
#FossilFuels #biodiversity #Roads #MobilityDesign #motorways #climate #DeliberativeDemocracy #DemocraticBacksliding #autogolpe #SelfCoup #governance
Image: Houses and landscapes destroyed for every wider roads to provide a conveyor belt for combustion vehicles, Coffs Harbour -
Achieving meaningful lives within planetary boundaries?
"Renewables are already much cheaper than fossil fuels. Alas, fossil fuels are up to three times as profitable. Thus capital forces governments to link electricity prices to the price of the most expensive liquified natural gas, not of cheap solar energy. Similarly, building and maintaining motorways is many times more lucrative for private contractors, car manufacturers and oil companies than a modern network of superfast, safe public railways. So capitalists continue to push our governments to subsidise fossil fuels and road building, even while the world burns."
"...Capital uses every tool at its disposal – debt, sanctions, coups and even outright military invasion to keep southern economies subordinate."
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We can move beyond the capitalist model and save the climate – here are the first three steps, Jason Hickel and Yanis Varoufakis
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/commentisfree/2026/feb/12/capitalist-model-climate-growth-capitalism-species-humanity
#FossilFuels #biodiversity #Roads #MobilityDesign #motorways #climate #DeliberativeDemocracy #DemocraticBacksliding #autogolpe #SelfCoup #governance
Image: Houses and landscapes destroyed for every wider roads to provide a conveyor belt for combustion vehicles, Coffs Harbour -
M1 traffic LIVE: Motorway closed with lorry on fire and miles of congestion
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/m1-traffic-live-motorway-closed-36592895
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M48 Severn Bridge closed: Major motorway shut as high winds batter region
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M1 traffic LIVE: Lorry on fire as motorway lanes close with one-hour delays
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/m1-traffic-live-lorry-fire-36533315
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M1 traffic LIVE: Cattle trailer crash shuts motorway at East Midlands Airport
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/m1-traffic-live-cattle-trailer-36515798
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M6 chaos as girl 'falls out of ambulance' and motorway forced to close
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/breaking-m6-chaos-girl-falls-36509788
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Another of J.D.M. Harvey’s drawings of an unbuilt section of the West Cross Route, this time passing Olympia. It was produced as part of Husband & Co’s consulting engineer’s report to the Greater London Council in May 1970. #GLC #Municipal #Motorways
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Another of J.D.M. Harvey’s drawings of an unbuilt section of the West Cross Route, this time passing Olympia. It was produced as part of Husband & Co’s consulting engineer’s report to the Greater London Council in May 1970. #GLC #Municipal #Motorways
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Today is the anniversary of the start of a 70mph (112 km/h) maximum #speed limit on #motorways (and any roads otherwise not restricted by a speed limit) in the #UK - starting in 1965 and being fully implemented in 1967.
Previous to that, the max speed limit was unrestricted (as fast as your car would go!) and all my motoring books from early 1960s mention this (but do still suggest driving to an appropriate speed for the road conditions).
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Today is the anniversary of the start of a 70mph (112 km/h) maximum #speed limit on #motorways (and any roads otherwise not restricted by a speed limit) in the #UK - starting in 1965 and being fully implemented in 1967.
Previous to that, the max speed limit was unrestricted (as fast as your car would go!) and all my motoring books from early 1960s mention this (but do still suggest driving to an appropriate speed for the road conditions).
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UK drivers to face busiest day of traffic yet as experts warn of millions taking Christmas trips
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/uk-drivers-face-busiest-day-36438725
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UK drivers to face busiest day of traffic yet as experts warn of millions taking Christmas trips
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/uk-drivers-face-busiest-day-36438725
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@anon_opin/115709057852684278
Whilst this is partly true - for instance Crossrail / Elizabeth line was debated when I was a teenager, and only completed when I was the other side of 50, this also happen with #motorways / highways - there is no #motorway in the whole of #Suffolk and any plans to expand the A14 highway or deal with the bottleneck of the Orwell Bridge in #Ipswich get regularly rejected - its not even "value for the taxpayer" but also a suprising consensus of rich #NIMBY types who live in the rural areas and #Green activists who are unsurprisingly opposed to more road building - they do have a point as I can remember #M25 being built and soon getting gridlocked - but Suffolk does need *something* to cope with peak time traffic to/from the busy port at #Felixstowe
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@anon_opin/115709057852684278
Whilst this is partly true - for instance Crossrail / Elizabeth line was debated when I was a teenager, and only completed when I was the other side of 50, this also happen with #motorways / highways - there is no #motorway in the whole of #Suffolk and any plans to expand the A14 highway or deal with the bottleneck of the Orwell Bridge in #Ipswich get regularly rejected - its not even "value for the taxpayer" but also a suprising consensus of rich #NIMBY types who live in the rural areas and #Green activists who are unsurprisingly opposed to more road building - they do have a point as I can remember #M25 being built and soon getting gridlocked - but Suffolk does need *something* to cope with peak time traffic to/from the busy port at #Felixstowe
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#NationalHighways (the #traffic authority for #motorways and fast #highways in #England and #Wales ) had better luck catching them #swans - officers are now trained to do this and keep #swan bags in the vans (the officer who caught the swan had already done this 3 times before in 7 years)
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#NationalHighways (the #traffic authority for #motorways and fast #highways in #England and #Wales ) had better luck catching them #swans - officers are now trained to do this and keep #swan bags in the vans (the officer who caught the swan had already done this 3 times before in 7 years)
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There's a standout article in #ThePress by Charlie Mitchell detailing how in the 1960s Christchurch city, NZ, came within a whisker of having a major motorway built through the middle of Hagley Park. That's the big park in the core of the city. The majority of local politicians were all for the motorway and it was only stopped by a coincidental administrative change in the way parks were managed that was backed by a national government decision.
Christchurch's mayor in the late 1960s, Ron Guthrey, was an ardent motorway supporter. The Press article notes how, in his inaugural speech as mayor, "he floated the idea of allowing cars to drive through the Botanic Gardens". At the next election he became the first sitting Christchurch mayor to be defeated in nearly half a century.
I see some parallels here with our current self-described "petrol head" mayor who wants to dig up a central city cycleway.
In the 1960s, opposition to the motorway was led by conservative councillor Peter Skellerup. “Surely the cult of the motor-car is not so strong that we carve through our oldest and most beloved reserve,” he said in 1963. “You can't land an aeroplane in the city… surely the car should be restricted from certain places.” "Skellerup, running to reclaim his seat, won more votes than any other council candidate in New Zealand’s history."
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There's a standout article in #ThePress by Charlie Mitchell detailing how in the 1960s Christchurch city, NZ, came within a whisker of having a major motorway built through the middle of Hagley Park. That's the big park in the core of the city. The majority of local politicians were all for the motorway and it was only stopped by a coincidental administrative change in the way parks were managed that was backed by a national government decision.
Christchurch's mayor in the late 1960s, Ron Guthrey, was an ardent motorway supporter. The Press article notes how, in his inaugural speech as mayor, "he floated the idea of allowing cars to drive through the Botanic Gardens". At the next election he became the first sitting Christchurch mayor to be defeated in nearly half a century.
I see some parallels here with our current self-described "petrol head" mayor who wants to dig up a central city cycleway.
In the 1960s, opposition to the motorway was led by conservative councillor Peter Skellerup. “Surely the cult of the motor-car is not so strong that we carve through our oldest and most beloved reserve,” he said in 1963. “You can't land an aeroplane in the city… surely the car should be restricted from certain places.” "Skellerup, running to reclaim his seat, won more votes than any other council candidate in New Zealand’s history."
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That was an epic journey there and back (by UK standards), 359,5 miles (578,6 km) and the afternoon journey took *6* hours due to roadworks on A12, M25, an RTC on M25 causing a jam and *more* roadworks on the M4 #motorways #traffic - although it meant I missed part of the afternoon events and with more outdoor stages, I'm glad this was a leisure journey and not something for work with time pressures!
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and here's another one within 10 miles of that. Drunk, failed to stop for police, jumped red, crashed. We must stop rewarding these #motorists with more #motorways. There would be plenty of space on existing ones if we removed the extremely #incompetent. https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/24472496.driver-runs-red-light-crashes-a47-police-chase/?ref=rss
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#Switzerland: Mobile #construction site #bridge: The ASTRA Bridge
The ASTRA Bridge is a mobile auxiliary bridge designed for use in maintenance work on #motorways. While traffic is being guided over the bridge, work can be carried out under the bridge.
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Former Tory Environment Minister Zac Goldsmith has been banned from #driving for a year and fined several thousand pounds for repeatedly #speeding in #London and SE #England (there has been a 20mph limit in London for some time now, he clearly chose to ignore it, and temporary limits on #motorways (which have 600mm diameter signs, hard to miss) - one of those who chooses to "set his own limits" like in the 90s and got caught out by modern technology..
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Jon Jefferson's entertaining video about the #M8 #Motorway round my neck of the woods (West of #Glasgow/#Erskine/#Inverclyde etc) is well worth a watch.
Almost every shot has me pointing at the screen going "that's where that thing happened!" and so on.
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Jon Jefferson's entertaining video about the #M8 #Motorway round my neck of the woods (West of #Glasgow/#Erskine/#Inverclyde etc) is well worth a watch.
Almost every shot has me pointing at the screen going "that's where that thing happened!" and so on.
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Jon Jefferson's entertaining video about the #M8 #Motorway round my neck of the woods (West of #Glasgow/#Erskine/#Inverclyde etc) is well worth a watch.
Almost every shot has me pointing at the screen going "that's where that thing happened!" and so on.
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Jon Jefferson's entertaining video about the #M8 #Motorway round my neck of the woods (West of #Glasgow/#Erskine/#Inverclyde etc) is well worth a watch.
Almost every shot has me pointing at the screen going "that's where that thing happened!" and so on.
