On Tue, 9 Mar 2010 12:29:05 -0000
"Peter Masson" wrote:
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On Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:49:57 +0000
Graeme wrote:
Like I said in a another post , the piccadilly line has almost caused me
to
miss flights twice at heathrow.

The M3 has almost caused me to miss flights twice at Heathrow.

Well perhaps you or your cabbie should have listened to the travel news.
Huge jams generally get reported very quickly.

There was an occasion when the M25 got completely blocked by an accident,
and many people were held up for 5 hours and missed flights at Gatwick. Some
had passed the last exit (M26 Wrotham) before the accident happened.

**** will occasionally happen. But there are works access only escape routes
off the M25 between the M26 and Clackett lane services not to mention the staff
exits from the services themselves. So theres really no excuse for people being
stuck for that long except the police being the usual bloody minded jobsworths
that they tend to be. Other countries usually manage to free up at least one
lane even when theres a bad crash to let stuck vehicles through, but not here.
Evidence and all that blah ****ing blah.

Many travel insurance policies will pay out if you miss a flight because of
public transport delays; most won't pay out if you are delayed by a traffic
jam or a breakdown when in your own car.

I'd still sooner trust the roads.

B2003