Good for you Dave!
Been out in the QP myself this afternoon, driving in tandem with my daughter in her own car. The A1 is closed northbound ALL WEEKEND at Newark (Friday 9pm to Monday 6am), for some roadworks a mere 15 or so miles further north. Yes, you read that right - there's nothing happening on the road for another 15 miles... It's appalling. The traffic jams are stupendous, and there's no real reason for all those poor sods to be stuck in them. Southbound is open, so I got to see the miles of empty roads, closed petrol stations and coffee shops, then the miles of standing traffic waiting to get onto the country roads. I knew it was there, so we were able to drive north on a completely different route, but it's simply not necessary to have put so many people through such pain.
Drive back was marred by long queues of cars in the outside lane overtaking nothing. All doing 40...
I might as well have taken the lawn mower - wouldn't have been much slower.
