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Motorways
Been to see a customer in the Midlands this week, Midlands means using the M5 & M6, both of which usually mean queues. They're both quite busy motorways, and where they meet it always means queues. The M6 is the main North South road in the UK and it's a wild pain in the arse until you get past Preston heading North, when it becomes a beautiful scenic route. The bits before are overcrowded and dull.
We're encouraged to travel in the best way possible, with three of us in the car, driving is usually the best way. Trains are expensive, unreliable and unless the destination is London, usually slower than driving. The downside is queues. It's a shade over 100 miles, those 100 miles took a shade over 3 hours yesterday. 3 hours, 2 hours 50 of which is motorway (70mph limit) man maths tells me that's an average speed of 35mph. Taking into account getting to and from stations, it's still quicker, easier and cheaper to spend 3 hours crawling along motorways than take a train.
I have no idea how you fix this.
