Any section of road you hate - and why?

[1198]

For me it's the mile or so of the A525 between Wrecsam and Rhuthin, just after the Nant y Garth junction. It's not a good surface, there always seems to be standing water on the leaf stained road, the corners all seem off camber and it just doesn't seem to flow either. The last time I rode it I was causing a jam with the vehicles I'd passed previously!

Any other suggestions?

[KLR600]

The A5 out of Bethesda past Ogwen Bank. I rode it once a few years ago just after someone had spilled oil on it for about 2 miles. I almost came off but through pure luck managed to stay on. It was a newly surfaced road at the time and I've never been able to trust it since even though I know it's all in my head.
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[Beehive Bedlam]

Ring road in Leeds during rush hour filtering between the cars isn't for the faint hearted the road surface is rough and someone always decides to pull out and jump to next lane at the last minute to get a few car lengths ahead only to come to a dead stop again.

Also many roads in Bradford - pot holes the size of Liz Mconald's twat though to be fair every time I have reported one they have been filled within two weeks the big ones anyway.

[Carvel]

The A406.

Can suck my balls.
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[waffles]

A few miles of country road just outside of my village that I use every day to commute on, it's had a set of temporary traffic lights for eight months while Network Rail carry out emergency repairs to the railway embankment. I always get stuck in a queue of traffic and the lead car is always piloted by someone who doesn't know what the white round sign with a diagonal black stripe means and so goes 30 just to be safe. There aren't many places to overtake either. Instant annoyance every morning!

Besides that the A303 near Stonehenge as it always clogged with traffic regardless of time of day.
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[snowblind94]

The entire section of road that is Sheffield.
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[Rogerborg]

This roundabout.

This - roundabout.

Looks innocent enough, yes?

Well, the smashed up shellgrip reflects the worn-to-the-nub condition of the whole surface.

The parts under the flyover never get really washed clean of diesel. Representations to the council have gone unanswered.

Every time I go round it it - every time - I must either crawl round in 1st gear, holding everyone up, or have a proper foot-down slip and wobble.

There really isn't a solution other than to - perish the thought - introduce a fuel slop test to keep fuel spilling vehicles off the road.
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[MC]

Any road with potholes (so all of them).
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[chickenstrip]

There's one short stretch on my way to work. First, I use a country lane which is actually quite good. But then I have to take a left turn; the actual junction is more pothole than original surface, rattles your teeth even in a car. Then it's over the A40 bridge, this little bit ok. Then you get to a right hand bend, severely adverse camber. In winter, every other day cars slide off it into the roadside ditch. After the bend, the road is just entirely made up of patches laid over patches. Then you get to a junction on the left, where a haulage firm is based, At this junction, there is a sunken manhole cover that I swear could throw a car off the road. To avoid it, you have to move over to the right, which puts you in the path of oncoming vehicles.

All of this is packed into less than a mile of road. It's got to the point where I won't use it on the bike now, but go the long way round, adding, I guess, 2 miles onto the trip. In winter, if it's icy, I won't even use it in the car.
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[noobRider]

This bit of road on the A362 down to Longleat was the worst I've ridden on and almost had me off at night sometimes. Awful surface, big cracks in the road, and running water across the road when it rained and no lighting so you couldn't see the surface at night properly. They re-surfaced it last year and now it's fantastic. A lovely swooping curve with smooth, grippy tarmac.

I think this bit of road on the A39, coming from Street towards Glastonbury, is the worst locally now. Subsidence, with a big bump followed by a set of cracks that catch your front wheel and guide you into the oncoming traffic if you're not careful.

I quite like the A303 at Stonehenge on a bike. You've got that middle bit you can zip down when traffic is really slow. When I picked up my current bike I got through there in five minutes when my wife was stuck in a car there for an hour or more
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[yodagoat]

The A fucking 9. Especially now they've put average speed cameras on the cunt. Take the minimally better A82 or Gelshee/Lecht/Tomintoul. A9 does get good just after Nigg. carry on the A99 (I think thats what it's called ) to Wick.
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[The999Kid]

A52 Grantham -> Boston, great road with a mixture of open and closed bends and decent Tarmac ruined by a 50mph average camera system the entire length of the bastard..
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[-Matt-]

Most of Bristol centre with its 20mph limits. Aside from being ridiculously congested and slow, the 20 limits seem to of just encouraged even more pedestrians to treat the road like a pavement.

I suppose it doesn't matter though; at 20mph its super-safe if you get knocked over apparently

[TallPaul_S]

This section https://goo.gl/maps/SFJ4B of the a228 which goes through Colts Hill - I commute through here every day and due to the crossroads which people use as a cut through, the traffic is at a standstill most days, and backed up on the roads coming up to it, all because people let cars out of one side of the crossroads, and they can't turn into the other road because of a steady flow of traffic, which then causes cars behind to let out other cars waiting, which have to wait to cross, and so it continues.

Worse thing is, you can't filter (or no more than a couple of cars at a time) because it's far too narrow and you end up going head on with 30 tonnes of artic. They need a bypass so badly here.

They had 20ft of roadworks here a few weeks ago and the traffic was backed up at a standstill for about 5 miles because of it - took a colleague an extra hour and a half to get into work that day in his car. On a bike it takes me 10 minutes to go 2 miles on average. My whole journey is 45 minutes and 20 miles. Everywhere else I can filter, apart from here.
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[Val]

exiting London via A4, before "The Famous 3 Kings" junction the lanes are so tight you cannot filter and should wait for the traffic lights in the queue. Annoying.
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[lukamon]

The junction between hall road and the a140in norwich (by the vauxhall dealer)

No idea why but fuck me is that slippery, even on a dry summers day. I don't even like accelerating in a straight line there.

Although if you're turning and it's late at might with no one around and you're in an mx5
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[temeluchus]

Merseyside has roads that make rural roads in Congo look pristine.
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[Fisty]

Pretty much anything within and including the M25.

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[noobRider]

https://www.fixmystreet.com/ might be useful
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