I have come down to Reading to see Nightwish thanks to a very generous offer from friends (cheers guys) who are also putting me up whilst I am here.
Last night I drove down, thinking ahead I thought I would set off quite late so as to miss all the rushhour nonsence. It seemed to work, nice empty ish flowing motorways.. great, I even stayed on the M6 instead of using the Toll (credit crunch and all 
).
Big gripe? (there has to be a gripe I am updating my blog! ). road works.. millions of em! (well about 3 per motorway on average).
I can understand the speed restriction stuff, its a fair point, it does bug me a little when there is no one at the site in the evening, perhaps a slight loosening of the restriction would help us night time drivers, but I can live with it 50’s not too bad for a few miles.
What does annoy me is when they take the piss because they can. The M42 has long been a personal peeve of mine, tonight was no exception. Due to its gantry based speed cams (they are on, I saw them get someone) you have to abide by the dynamic speed signs. Which should be fine. But at around 23:00 on an empty motorway 40MPH is somewhat annoying… this is further compounded by the limit being removed and then a new set of road works about 500yrds further down the road. This time, completely empty motorway, no workmen in sight (found them putting cones out a mile or so later), restriction? 20MPH!!!!!
WTF!
really annoyed me, there was much slamming on from people and a seemingly confused pause as we crawled past the camera on this massive empty stretch of tarmac. Only to speed back up to something sensible later.
Yeah protect workforce, but don’t take the piss.