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21/8/2013 at 6:26pm
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Yet again, a big chunk of the M25 is almost at a standstill, according to the traffic bulletins as I was driving back from work. There was a afternoon a few weeks ago when it was jammed on the anti-clockwise side almost the whole of the way from the M1 to the Dartford crossing.

It might well have been solid on the Essex/Herts stretch too, we don't get the bulletins for that bit down here.

This got me to wondering. It's not inconceivable that one day there could be the right combination of incidents and road works to make the end of the queue meet the front of the queue and the whole thing would be at a standstill.

Do they have a contingency to stop that happening? If so, how does it work?

And how would they get everyone off if it did?

I have visions of motorists stuck on there for years, getting older and older....


21/8/2013 at 7:23pm
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i've been in a tailback from j25-heathrow, that's got to be 60 miles?


21/8/2013 at 7:28pm
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When we used to have the Oracle on ITV we had the circle around for the M25 showing all problems around and about. Different colour shading was for all forms of traffic news whether heavy, jammed or weather snow. A quick look before going out could save us a traffic jam and being caught up in it and so go another way. Junction 8 is where we are on it.
Jnt. 4-5 is roadworks but they then get longer as the traffic builds up on them it was at jnt 6 when we used it last.

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21/8/2013 at 7:33pm
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www.highways.gov.uk
gets you a lot of info on the spot at the time you want.
Put your area wanted in the search box and surf around.
Good site for travelling or pre-so

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21/8/2013 at 9:55pm
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Used to be quicker (if you knew the roads and pre sat-nav) to go through London but the congestion zone stuffed that!



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22/8/2013 at 4:44am
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Just think what the roads around London would be like if the M25 hadn't been built!   Lol   

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22/8/2013 at 8:35am
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Ah, the joys of living in the North and not having to put up with the worlds largest car park.

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22/8/2013 at 10:09am
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Google 'The Day Britain Stopped' - ficticious, but it wouldn't take much for the whole lot to fall over!!



22/8/2013 at 11:20am
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Half the problems is all signed routes seem to push everyone onto the motorways even if they are trying to travel just a couple of miles, sat navs do it too.


22/8/2013 at 2:24pm
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We have just returned from Hampshire and the M25 anticlockwise was a complete nightmare, luckily for us we were going in the opposite direction. I agree with sat nav directing you to the motorway, found that a problem the first time we went to France.

Anne



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Quote: Originally posted by beanpark on 21/8/2013
When we used to have the Oracle on ITV we had the circle around for the M25 showing all problems around and about. Different colour shading was for all forms of traffic news whether heavy, jammed or weather snow. A quick look before going out could save us a traffic jam and being caught up in it and so go another way. Junction 8 is where we are on it.
Jnt. 4-5 is roadworks but they then get longer as the traffic builds up on them it was at jnt 6 when we used it last.



OMG, your going back a few years with Oracle on ITV.
I like the idea of the M25 being gridlocked from start to finish! I think the only chance of that happening is if half the population all decide to travel to the south by car on the same day, but I would hope that the Highways Agency would do something to avert a situation like that!

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22/8/2013 at 3:19pm
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Quote: Originally posted by ficklejade on 21/8/2013
Used to be quicker (if you knew the roads and pre sat-nav) to go through London but the congestion zone stuffed that!


Wrong! You can go down the M1 and A5 Edgware road to Marble Arch, Park Lane, Victoria and over Vauxhall Bridge to go south and you will have been right through London and not entered the zone. Check it out! 


22/8/2013 at 9:43pm
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Quote: Originally posted by Bedlover46 on 22/8/2013
Quote: Originally posted by beanpark on 21/8/2013When we used to have the Oracle on ITV we had the circle around for the M25 showing all problems around and about. Different colour shading was for all forms of traffic news whether heavy, jammed or weather snow. A quick look before going out could save us a traffic jam and being caught up in it and so go another way. Junction 8 is where we are on it.
Jnt. 4-5 is roadworks but they then get longer as the traffic builds up on them it was at jnt 6 when we used it last.



OMG, your going back a few years with Oracle on ITV.
I like the idea of the M25 being gridlocked from start to finish! I think the only chance of that happening is if half the population all decide to travel to the south by car on the same day, but I would hope that the Highways Agency would do something to avert a situation like that!



I can go back alot further than that but that will show my age up lol When even the CCC club was called The Camping Club of Great Britain & Ireland. Tandems with homemade trailers and ridge tents. No motorways, duel carriageways & people made their own fun.Ah! nostalgia

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23/8/2013 at 6:46pm
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This afternoon sounded particularly bad - a caravan caught fire between J8 and J7. What on earth do you do if that happens, I wonder?

I still want to know how they'd get people moving if it was all at a standstill!


23/8/2013 at 7:04pm
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Car/ caravan fire. Said 25 mile tail backs but heard it's worse. Hope no one was hurt


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