Decision on M6 improvements to be announced today - Page 2

garinda · 10-01-2006, 23:37

[quote=WillowTheWhisp]OOOh I've never been an etc before. Have you Rindy/quote]

Don't start crying Willow, but since you pointed out our Capricorn similarities, we are growing more and more alike.

Perhaps we'll get Less to pull the barge when it's the horse's day off.

WillowTheWhisp · 11-01-2006, 00:12

You do realise we are in danger of a telling off from Unca Less for wandering off his very serious subject here don't you? (It would have to be small barges week)

Less · 11-01-2006, 04:02

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Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp

You do realise we are in danger of a telling off from Unca Less for wandering off his very serious subject here don't you? (It would have to be small barges week)

Of course your not in danger, as i said:-

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You and Rindy are getting close to being in the etc group in my first post! The idea is to talk about the M6 not alternatives, there's plenty of room for you to start your own alternative threads!

The emphasis is on getting close,

The reason I said what I did in my first post is because whenever a thread is started about transport the loonies come out of the woodwork and post something along the lines of:-
'I don't use cars I think they should be banned', These idiots when you enquire don't seem to have a solution to transport problems that would be caused by throwing 60,000,000 of us back into the middle ages, they won't contribute anything worthwhile but seem to think the rest of us should comply to their way of thinking immediately.

Then there is the narrowist view, e.g. all lorries/caravans/cars/pedestrians/etc should be banned! Again, not a very practical solution for improving the M6. (By the way I do think all pedestrians should be banned from the M6 does that make me a narrowist?).

If however Rindy and yourself would like to talk about canals instead I don't really mind I think they are a resource that could still be useful. But then with proper investment so could the Railways!
However at the moment the countries main lifelines are the motorways and it would be nice for them to be as useful as possible, (a nice dream but hardly practical).

M6 plans anger rural campaigners

WillowTheWhisp · 11-01-2006, 08:22

I'm still in favour of the widening of the existing road rather than creating a new one, but have you heard this theory about traffic behaving in some sort of predictable way as if the cars etc were individual molecules in one large substance? There was some chap on the radio yesterday saying this explains why traffic jams occur for no logical reason. Everyone is going merrily along and then all of a sudden things start to congeal without any changes in road conditions or accidents or anything, then just as mysteriously it all starts moving smoothly again. Only sometimes it doesn't. It clogs up and we get the jams.

As you mentioned railways I think the closures in the 60s were a crying shame but look at motorways back then - the M6 with hardly a sausage on it!