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worst road you've driven on?
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starry_rune
18-12-2016
6 minute video showing 10 horrific roads

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ym4uVS-5tSA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdoAFK3FD1Y

Have you driven on any? whats the worst road you've driven on?
dee123
18-12-2016
Haven't clicked the link but nothing beats the North Yungas Road.
Pumping Iron
18-12-2016
Some crazy roads in the mountains on Lombok island in Indonesia. Very steep, windy, more like dirt tracks, full of holes and huge trucks coming towards you.

Even on the newly built motorway you get donkeys, homemade cars, 6 people on a moped, 9 year olds on motorbikes and people randomly having picnics in the middle of the road.
MAW
18-12-2016
I'd take any of them over Earls Court Road at 5pm on a rainy Friday.
GusGus
18-12-2016
The A whatever it is that runs from Exeter towards London past Stonehenge
We decided to try this way once as a trial in preference to the M5/M4, what a nightmare - never again. Only one toilet at a filling station which you could only use if you bought petrol. Then you were allowed the sacred key to the toilet door where there was a delightful loo
Nodger
18-12-2016
Anything rural with no field barriers (hedges etc...) such as moors, Welsh mountains and the worst, the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. Particularly at night and on a motorcycle... you just never know if there's going to be a cow, sheep, deer etc... just stood in the middle of the road round a bend.
Pitman
18-12-2016
Lower Thames Street eastbound, 24/7 gridlock since the cycle superhighways went in, traffic stacked back to Blackfriars
Terry N
18-12-2016
The Torr Road in NI is quite hairy, but incredibly scenic.
gomezz
18-12-2016
Reversing a van down one narrow, steep cul de sac in town in winter when it is icy as well as pot-holed and lined by parked cars in the dark and fog is one of the worst for me which is why I refer to it as "Nightmare on Elm Street"!
Richard46
18-12-2016
Originally Posted by GusGus:
“The A whatever it is that runs from Exeter towards London past Stonehenge
We decided to try this way once as a trial in preference to the M5/M4, what a nightmare - never again. Only one toilet at a filling station which you could only use if you bought petrol. Then you were allowed the sacred key to the toilet door where there was a delightful loo”

You speak of the fabled A303 (Highway to the Sun) probably my favourite road. Glad to hear you will not be using it again. The less people on it the better.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A303_road

Although I did get one of my two speeding fines on it; just east of Stonehenge actually.
SULLA
18-12-2016
As an expert driver I do not have any suggestions.
razorback Tony
18-12-2016
Originally Posted by Pitman:
“Lower Thames Street eastbound, 24/7 gridlock since the cycle superhighways went in, traffic stacked back to Blackfriars ”

Quite often further back than that, to Temple Place, almost under Waterloo Bridge.
Another killer, a regular s.o.b. at the best of times, is Jamaica Road, Bermondsey, northbound, a veritable car park while Tower Bridge is closed until the end of December.
ba_baracus
18-12-2016
The Capital Beltway or the Interstate 495 as it is formally known (the ring road surrounding Washington DC).

I've driven on the M25 before but the congestion on the I495 just seemed so much worse.
Grafenwalder
18-12-2016
Not so much dangerous, just a crazy place to drive a coach!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xN5VpqMnPUk

and here it is from the other end.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBcsQcOyuIo
LakieLady
18-12-2016
The M25, especially on a Friday afternoon. I'm convinced that one day all the queues will join up and people will be stuck on it for days on end. It'll turn into a massive circular car park.
too_much_coffee
18-12-2016
The road through the High atlas mountains in Morocco.

http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=...ao0&ajaxhist=0

People overtake on blind corners and it's a 750m drop with no barriers. White knuckles for the entire journey but some spectacular views.
alan29
18-12-2016
Any road in Belgium.
Grafenwalder
18-12-2016
Originally Posted by alan29:
“Any road in Belgium.”

Roads there are fine. Try Albania where mountain roads often end up as a dust track with no signs. A compass is more use than gps!

In the op's link one mentioned the Trollstigen road in Norway and said vehicles over 40ft are banned. I'm not sure thats correct as tour coaches use it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwU6T7lPMYQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHA8oULEky4&t=1m11s
Nodger
18-12-2016
Originally Posted by LakieLady:
“The M25, especially on a Friday afternoon. I'm convinced that one day all the queues will join up and people will be stuck on it for days on end. It'll turn into a massive circular car park.”

Over 20 years M25 free now. So glad I moved.
worzil
18-12-2016
Originally Posted by Grafenwalder:
“Roads there are fine. Try Albania where mountain roads often end up as a dust track with no signs. A compass is more use than gps!

In the op's link one mentioned the Trollstigen road in Norway and said vehicles over 40ft are banned. I'm not sure thats correct as tour coaches use it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwU6T7lPMYQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHA8oULEky4&t=1m11s”

The roads that get my goat are reasonably good roads but the speed limit changes ever few miles A56 A17 and so on.
Dotheboyshall
18-12-2016
In Cambodia the road from Kampot to Sihanouk which was just mud, also on the way from Kampong Cham to Siem Reap where we had to avoid a truck that was submerged to it's roof.

Could also add African Massages in Zambia & Tanzania where you were at risk of losing fillings such was the vibratin
Tidosho
18-12-2016
For a major road? Driving on the the freeway in Florida was like doing 80 miles on someone's concrete drive.. The road noise was so bad i pulled over at one point, i thought i had a puncture.
Hot Butterfly
18-12-2016
M25 when there's been an accident, which is every single day, with tailbacks for miles. I feel so sorry for people who have to travel along it to work. It's murder. Plus the A12. I believe it's the only major road out of London that still has only two lanes. Friday's are the worst with all the lorries going to Felixstowe or Harwich and speed traps, road works. Lovely.
jra
18-12-2016
Originally Posted by dee123:
“Haven't clicked the link but nothing beats the North Yungas Road.”

It's definitely up there with the worst. Some really scary shit.

Forget about bends, congestion, first world problems with roads in Europe. Those type of roads are in a different league.

For me.

The B3306 in terms of difficulty. However, there are plenty of lanes in Devon and Cornwall which are challenging over shorter stretches.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B3306_road
Phil Dodd
18-12-2016
Part of the UK road the A44. It runs east-west between Worcester and Wales. One part in question is a stretch of half a mile just east of Leominster, where the A44 leaves a roundabout with the A49 and heads towards Worcester. There are massive holes in the surface of the road forming two trenches several inches deep. Not only a disaster for the suspension of all vehicles, but a major threat of causing serious accidents. Despite the trenches being there for the last 5 years, all that happens is that when the end of the financial year approaches, workers come and fill in the trenches with soft tarmac, which never fills the trenches completely and which washes away after the next heavy rain storm.

The problem is that the road the A44 is under control of Herefordshire Council and not Highways England.

Anyone with any common sense would immediately put a speed restriction of 30 MPH on the stretch of road. Additionally vehicles drive over it as fast as they can go. There already have been two accidents on that stretch of road. It is only a matter of time in my opinion before there is a fatality because of the trenches in the road surface.
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