The M25

[Visitor Q]

Anyone caught on it this evening? Anyone know what the fuck was wrong?

Took me 70 minutes to get from Junction 12 to Junction 8. Absolute gridlock, 4 lanes.

Also, can people please give a public service announcement to cagers they know... if held up in traffic. Please don't assume it is a good time to have a picnic in the middle of the road

It was the dodgy looks I was getting that were infuriating. It wasn't like I was the first bike past, I caught up to plenty. So how had they not twigged eh? Suicidal cages is one thing, but the paperwork involved if a cager popped out infront of you when filtering... well it's enough to make you slow down (a bit)
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[Vincent]

Seems to be like that everytime go on there
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[neil.]

They don't call it 'London's car park' for nothing.
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[Visitor Q]

Oh, I've heard its reputation. But I've never seen carnage like it before. 4 junctions, 20 odd miles, solid stationery filtering. Get off the motorway, and EVERY bit of road jammed solid on the way to the first open junction.

Plus, how do cagers, on roads that haven't moved in 10 minutes, still find space to dart from lane to lane
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[arry]

https://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23737923-details/Five-hour+jam+on+the+M25...+fingers+crossed+for+a+better+bank+holiday/article.do

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[arry]

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[motorcycledir...]

I do know they're doing work around Junction 25, mainly because I got stuck in it for almost an hour on tuesday lunchtime (WHY did I decide to take the car???)

The m25 is never going to get better, only worse. I don't know why I bother going on it - it seems people automatically drive 10 times worse on it! There are some real lunatics out there - coming back (again, tuesday) the cars in front of me (about 4 of them) were only a few metres away from each other - no wonder there are so many accidents!
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[Polo]

And again........

https://www.thisiscroydontoday.co.uk/latestnews/Traffic-problems-Coulsdon-drivers-M25-crash/article-1293323-detail/article.html

That sounds FUBAR - a board dropping from a van and taking out the motorcyclist.
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[Pete.]

Everyone's taken to the roads this afternoon - it's the bank holiday.

I had exactly the same happen a couple of years ago riding from Beaconsfield to Dartford. Traffic was solid and mostly stationary from the M4 to Clacketts Lane, then queueing from Swanley to the tolls. very stressful riding because of people opening doors and generally milling about on the carriageway.
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132.9mph off and walked away. Gear is good, gear is good, gear is very very good

[Clanger]

Well it's Reading & Leeds Festival this weekend, it's also 'supposed to be' decent weather this weekend (on the southcoast at least), I think it's also the SW1 (?) festival in London this weekend.

It won't affect the M25 particularly, but there are supposedly nine cruise liners docking in Southampton this weekend, so it's probably worth avoiding the M27/M271 too.
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[Clanger]

Oh yeah, and Notting Hill festival too.
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[R6jonny]

[Mister James]

[LeeR]

It was a very similar situation in the south west on Friday evening: M5 reopens after bridge incident, this fella took 7 hours to kill himself, damned inconvenient and I reckon there was at least 10,000 people that would've have helped him do it, still that'll learn him he won't do that again!

Closing the Avonmouth bridge is a really bad thing to do as there's only one other route north, and that's straight through the middle of Bristol.

Barrel of laughs my commute was last night, I filtered for about 10 miles, ticked off a few traffic violations, got caught in a thunder storm, and hail, had loopy students jump out from between parked cars, saw the SS Great Britain, the cathedral, the zoo, Clifton Downs, stopped for fuel, etc...

Took me an hour and a half to cover 40 miles, the only consolation was I didn't experience the 40mph winds on the Avonmouth bridge.
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[R6jonny]

[Jeansy001]

BTW there was a guy trying to commit suicide off the avonmouth bridge i believe. so poeple were stuck there for hours including my own parents ( who ride bikes ) in cages. they too got out of the car for a bit as they were stuck still for hours on end. police tryed to coax him down, shame he fell while trying to get down
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