The_Gza

Chaps,

I’m after some advice on routes for some mighty traveling I have coming up.

Will be leaving Central Scotland approx. 4pm tomorrow to travel to Leeds for a meeting on Wednesday. Then on Wednesday have to get from Leeds (leaving approx 1.30pm) to London. I know what the shortest route is thanks to AA RoutePlanner, but you can’t beat a bit of local knowledge!

My intended route to Leeds is M74 then across the A66 to Scotch Corner to Leeds via A1(M), and then on Wednesday from Leeds down the M1 towards London.

Is this the best route, or are there any alternative suggestions to avoid known snarl-ups etc? Don’t mind Motorways etc – will have new style Hertz Mondeo for company so don’t really feel the need for A &B Road detours for a blast.

Cheers

PS I might even try flashing at any Scoobys I see on my travels

gregh

>> M74 then across the A66 to Scotch Corner to Leeds via A1(M),

That's the route I'd take, in fact, that's the route I did last Friday/Sat

Greg

boomer

A bit late i expect, but take care on the M74 - the Police seem to be rather keen!

Last week i picked up a "real" laser on my detector for the first time _ever_ shortly after crossing the border Northwards (doing an indicated 80mph) and today Southbound saw three or four fully marked Volvos touting for business

mb

Robertio

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Its speedwatch week / fortnight, whatever it is, starting this week in Scotland

jon hill

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:<HR>Originally posted by Robertio:
<B>Its speedwatch week / fortnight, whatever it is, starting this week in Scotland [/quote]

whats this all about ?

I'm heading up to the west coast on saturday for a week, was looking foward to a bit of a blast...

jon

gregh

Jon,

It means load of police with radar guns as I found out to my cost (3 points £60). They told me to be very careful driving out of Scotland as this blitz was on. Saw 2 hand held guns from Fort William to Glasgow.

Sit in 'known' speeding areas.

Cheers,

greg

jon hill

bo**ocks

Robertio

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Jon, I think you have managed to pick the worst week of the year, they pick areas, where people speed, not because it is at all dangerous, but just so at the end of the campaign they can say we caught XXX thousand people speeding.
I'm not sure if it is a week or two weeks it is running for this year, hopefully only the one. If I hear I will post, you may be OK.

One not impressed Scooby owner

gregh

Speedwatch time in Scotland just cost me 1st ever motoring offence

Handheld radars everywhere, even saw 2 motorbikes cops hidden behind some trees on a lovely straight wide road in the dry. Lots of people flashing me before hand to warn

Greg

Robertio

iTrader: (1)

Unlucky Greg, hopefully not too bad

Guess whose car is taking him to work and back, and nowhere else if he can avoid it until this is over

jon hill

cheers

i guess i'll just have to take it easy until i'm in the middle of nowhere. I'm going to end up in tignabruich - the road going west of dunoon is a bit of a laugh, and it really is the back of beyond, so hopefully it'll be ok.

jon

boomer

Hard luck greg,

maybe i was just lucky. Last week (A/M74 and A702 to Edinburgh) i took things relatively easy, but this week (A/M74 to Glasgow), after spending much of my time being rapidly overtaken (delta of 10 or 20mph) by other drivers i did speed up a tad.

Were you on a trunk road or a "back" road when you were caught?

mb