FabSwingers.com forum: Worst places to drive

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

I have arrived in my Birmingham hotel and once again reaffirmed my belief that Birmingham is the worst place in the UK to drive around.

Anyone care to nominate somewhere else?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Mariana Trench

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

London, by far the worst place to drive. Unless you come from London and do as Londoners do.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I have arrived in my Birmingham hotel and once again reaffirmed my belief that Birmingham is the worst place in the UK to drive around.

Anyone care to nominate somewhere else?"

Central London.

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By *ananas57Couple
over a year ago

lake ariel

Toss-up between NYC or Washington DC

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By *icked ladyCouple
over a year ago

heathrow

"Toss-up between NYC or Washington DC

Having driven in both NYC is the worst but is a joy compared to Rome or Beijing! !

DC"

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Our estate, ever since they put all the speed bumps in, pot holes having been appearing everywhere, some roads look like they've been testing missiles on them

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"London, by far the worst place to drive. Unless you come from London and do as Londoners do. "

I find London awkward but for pure frustration levels Birmingham is on another level.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"London, by far the worst place to drive. Unless you come from London and do as Londoners do.

I find London awkward but for pure frustration levels Birmingham is on another level. "

I have driven in London and yes it's busy but I hate driving in Brum

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I live in birmingham and i just use backroads all the time.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"I live in birmingham and i just use backroads all the time."

Is that a euphemism?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"London, by far the worst place to drive. Unless you come from London and do as Londoners do.

I find London awkward but for pure frustration levels Birmingham is on another level. "

Having lived in both I would agree. Driving in centtal london is frustratingly slow. Driving in Brum is just horrid.

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By *he_tykiesCouple
over a year ago

West Yorkshire.

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By *athnBobCouple
over a year ago

sandwell

Paris... especially the motorways around the south.

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By *he_tykiesCouple
over a year ago

West Yorkshire.

Got to be Bradford, not only is the City diabolical to get through or round during the day but at other times some drivers totally ignore traffic lights, stop signs and the traffic islands are used for dodging either side. Its like the wacky races.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Bristol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I have arrived in my Birmingham hotel and once again reaffirmed my belief that Birmingham is the worst place in the UK to drive around.

Anyone care to nominate somewhere else?"

Alexa is shit hot at navigation,she bought her car from brum recently and was all over the place,didnt get lost once either

Might ad I just let her get on with it and pretend I knew

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Got to be Bradford, not only is the City diabolical to get through or round during the day but at other times some drivers totally ignore traffic lights, stop signs and the traffic islands are used for dodging either side. Its like the wacky races."

I don't disagree but am up there on business a lot and it never seems as bad. I mean it frustrates me but Birmingham leaves me screaming profanities very loudly as I drive

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I dnt know if am cumming or going in Birmingham

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I live in birmingham and i just use backroads all the time.

Is that a euphemism? "

You hit a main road between 3pm -7pm and you're fucked

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Milton Keynes : roundabout upon roundabout .

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Bristol. Both the ever changing city centre and the ring road which swallows you in like an unsuspecting duck on the rapids and spits you out nowhere near where you need to be.

The motorway network around Manchester. Smart my arse.

The entirety of the M6.

Actually, on reflection, any roads where there are other people. Can I have the M Heels that only I (and a select few following a vigorous application process) can use please?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Milton Keynes : roundabout upon roundabout ."

Any new town is bad for this...i fucking hate all those mini roundabouts and double mini roundabouts seriously....just have one big roundabout

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Milton Keynes : roundabout upon roundabout .

Any new town is bad for this...i fucking hate all those mini roundabouts and double mini roundabouts seriously....just have one big roundabout

No need to swear lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Milton Keynes : roundabout upon roundabout .

Any new town is bad for this...i fucking hate all those mini roundabouts and double mini roundabouts seriously....just have one big roundabout

No need to swear lol"

There really is

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By *eliz NelsonMan
over a year ago

The Tantric Tea Shop

Lindesfarne causeway...at high tide!

Bloody nightmare

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By *layfull pairingCouple
over a year ago

Bristol

Bristol.... Especially in summer when the M5 is blocked up solid around almondsbury with all them bloody northerners headed down south to Devon and Cornwall !!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Whatever the area was that I drove around in Leicester the other day. It was awful, I was questioning how they 'd passed their test and really thought I wouldn't get out alive!

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By *edRapscallionMan
over a year ago

London

Drivers and motorcyclists in Naples are terrifying.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Milton Keynes : roundabout upon roundabout .

Any new town is bad for this...i fucking hate all those mini roundabouts and double mini roundabouts seriously....just have one big roundabout

No need to swear lol

There really is"

Fucking right there is

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The moon it takes fucking ages to get there lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Have to agree with you there, by far the worst place I have ever driven, including Sri Lanka and Paris

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By *orwegian BlueMan
over a year ago

Iceland, but Aldi is closer..

The A127 right now...

Poxy road

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Anyone tried that silly 5 (at least) lane roundabout in the centre of Reading? How the fook do you negotiate that? Always found myself at traffic lights in the wrong lane.

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By *uddlybear2015Man
over a year ago

BEDFORD

Bangalore is amusing,providing you have a perverse sense of humour! Multiple speed limits depending on type of vehicle,from bullock cart to HGV but nobody takes a blind bit of notice and scooters autorickshaws and cows coming at you from all directions

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Cardiff! No road signs and took me two hours to get out off the city the time I went

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

London by far it's like whacky races

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Warrington bloody roundabouts everywhere

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By *elvet RopeMan
over a year ago

by the big field

Birmingham is pretty simple to get round, although it is a bit of a hassle at present due to the works at paradise circus and the pump island. Now for fucked up, I give you Coventry ring road! I always seem to end up missing the exit I need at least once, despite working there for a while

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By *unandbuckCouple
over a year ago

Sheffield

Mogadishu, I simply refuse to do it.

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By *icentiousCouple
over a year ago

Up on them there hills

Sri Lanka, turned my hair grey.. Well that and a bit of age.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

London Bristol or Manchester are the worst for me

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By *ty31Man
over a year ago

NW London

"London by far it's like whacky races"

You need to do as we locals do and adopt the London approach to traffic: fuck the Highway Code it's always your own right of way! I couriered around central for a few years and it isn't that bad once you know your way around.

I've driven on Greek Islands and that's a bit manic, forget which side of the road you're meant to be on just drive in the centre like the locals do.

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By *ynecplCouple
over a year ago

Newcastle upon Tyne

Having lived in Southern Italy you really do risk your life driving to work.

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By *erbyDalesCplCouple
over a year ago

Derbyshire

"Milton Keynes : roundabout upon roundabout .

Any new town is bad for this...i fucking hate all those mini roundabouts and double mini roundabouts seriously....just have one big roundabout

Like Swindon's Magic Roundabout? That's an experience.

London is simple if you drive an old, dented car and drive with confidence - everyone else just steers clear.

I'd go with riding motorbike in North Wales. By the time I'd managed to translate "Araf - Dro Peryglus" I was already in the hedge

Mr ddc

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By *htcMan
over a year ago

i hate london, to many speed cameras.

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By *2000ManMan
over a year ago

Worthing

Avoid the M25 Friday afternoon near Heathrow. All your driving nightmares will happen at the same time.

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury

Lagos

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By *funtimes.Man
over a year ago

Preston

UK is fine, even London. now India gets bit strange, even for confident drivers

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Guatemala City; scared the shit out of me oh and Tegucigalpa... in fact anywhere in Central America; oh and Kabul wasn't much fun; although there are a distinct lack of traffic lights so that makes it better.....

oh and Bristol; wtf have they done to Bristol?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Bradford in UK and New Jersey USA

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury

"Guatemala City; scared the shit out of me oh and Tegucigalpa... in fact anywhere in Central America; oh and Kabul wasn't much fun; although there are a distinct lack of traffic lights so that makes it better.....

oh and Bristol; wtf have they done to Bristol?"

I had a terrifying moment on a bus in Honduras where the driver decided to overtake on a corner on the side of a mountain...

Tegucigalpa was ok tho'?

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By *ophieslutTV/TS
over a year ago

Central

Los Angeles

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By *illyjohnyCouple
over a year ago

brighton

"Mariana Trench "

Or Beachy Head

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Rome, arggghhhh was scared shittless... Nutters!

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury

"Los Angeles "

LA was fine, although my driver was an excitable gay guy who was forever holding coffee in one hand and his phone in the other while he bounced the car around driving with his knees.

It's very difficult without a car.

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury

"Rome, arggghhhh was scared shittless... Nutters! "

Rome is also fine, just pretend you can't see anyone else on the roads

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

People struggle finding us on the canal. We do like to moor in the middle of nowhere though.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Try Cairo.

Roads permanently jammed, nobody pays any attention to traffic lights, road signs or the road police. I reckon 90% of the cars there have got dents and scrapes from shoving their way round the city.....

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By *inky-MinxWoman
over a year ago

Grantham

Nottingham, I had to buy a sat nave because of Nottingham

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By *inky-MinxWoman
over a year ago

Grantham

Is the two-way roundabout still in Hemel?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Milton Keynes : roundabout upon roundabout .

Any new town is bad for this...i fucking hate all those mini roundabouts and double mini roundabouts seriously....just have one big roundabout

Like Swindon's Magic Roundabout? That's an experience.

London is simple if you drive an old, dented car and drive with confidence - everyone else just steers clear.

I'd go with riding motorbike in North Wales. By the time I'd managed to translate "Araf - Dro Peryglus" I was already in the hedge

Mr ddc "

I know Araf is slow. Guessing rest is sharp corner if you ended up in a hedge

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

In Britain... easy, London. End of.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Hardwick roundabout kingslynn take life in your own hands guess we're everyone else is going as they ain't got a clue until last minute most got holiday head on lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Up my arse

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By *exsibonCouple
over a year ago

Winchester and Brussels

Riyadh. A question of when, not if, you have your accident. Sheer high powered mayhem.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Driven through London and Birmingham and would say London was worst... Good thing about London is I can just leave the car at my dad's and use public transport

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By *opsy RogersWoman
over a year ago

London

"I have arrived in my Birmingham hotel and once again reaffirmed my belief that Birmingham is the worst place in the UK to drive around.

Anyone care to nominate somewhere else?"

Northern Ireland. Where cars aren't parked, they've just stopped.

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By *inzi LTV/TS
over a year ago

The Garden of Eden in Beautiful North Wales

"I have arrived in my Birmingham hotel and once again reaffirmed my belief that Birmingham is the worst place in the UK to drive around.

Anyone care to nominate somewhere else?"

Under water!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

oh and Bristol; wtf have they done to Bristol?

I had a terrifying moment on a bus in Honduras where the driver decided to overtake on a corner on the side of a mountain...

Tegucigalpa was ok tho'?"

I was there in the aftermath of hurricane Mitch "working"; it wasn't okay....

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By *he-Hosiery-GentMan
over a year ago

Older Hot Bearded Guy

London.

I will never go there again.

Awful. Just awful.

And will only get worse with the ever increasing populace.

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By *ynecplCouple
over a year ago

Newcastle upon Tyne

"Rome, arggghhhh was scared shittless... Nutters!

Rome is also fine, just pretend you can't see anyone else on the roads "

You only need to understand two rules for driving in Italy and they are:

1. If it is going faster than you get out of its way.

2. If it gets there first it has right of way

Simple really

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By *tevelizCouple
over a year ago

northampton

road to our old caravan storage site

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By *ierced 2Couple
over a year ago

Village near Great Yarmouth

Coventry ring road.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Mumbai...and India's motorways.. if you can call them that! terrifying just as a passenger , let alone driving... never again A x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Mariana Trench "

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Bexhill fall of people that should of given up driving years ago. Signal left turn right etc

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

On a pavement. It's bloody awful

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The A595 around 2.45 pm - 4pm

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I refuse to drive on Motorways i hate them with a passion,if i go to London its the A4 all the way,i went to Newcastle on the old roads and it took me 10 hours

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By *orwegian BlueMan
over a year ago

Iceland, but Aldi is closer..

The desert in Liwa,

Those dunes are fecking mahoosive..

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By *elson61Man
over a year ago

WELWYN GARDEN CITY

London, especially as so many local authorities are bringing in blanket 20mph speed limits!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I have arrived in my Birmingham hotel and once again reaffirmed my belief that Birmingham is the worst place in the UK to drive around.

Anyone care to nominate somewhere else?"

Your probably right at the moment with the reconstruction to paradise forum and stuff absolute nightmare it is london I'd say is the worst though

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By *atelotmanMan
over a year ago

Chatham

London is easy to drive in,just remember the rules

1 taxis will stop without warning an pull u turns no matter what

2 expect motor bike to come up either side of when no real gaps to pass

3 push bike riders who don't think the Highway Code is meant for an will go through red lights mount an dismount pavements without warning an when you hit them blame you

4cars don't worry to much they are just as scared as you an will give way every time

5 lorries to big to get up to a decent speed so you get in front all the time

6 the biggest problem is tourist,if your near a major sightseeing site they will just step out into road with out looking an wonder why you didn't stop for them so they can take photos

Best thing to drive around London is the magic white van,unwritten rule is who ever gets to the front gets the right of way .

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By *ty31Man
over a year ago

NW London

"Is the two-way roundabout still in Hemel?"

Yes, the magic roundabout, but it's quite easy to navigate around.

Better than having all those rickshaw riders and in London anyway

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Try driving through Germany on the autobahn. Crazy. Kinda fun though!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Europe, I can't decide between Antwerp or Paris, UK it will always be London, but whenever you are in a city you don't know it's difficult.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

any road that has taxi cab drivers & bmw drivers

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Frozen canal.... In late spring.....and it's a borrowed car .... And you thought it was a farm track ....

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I have arrived in my Birmingham hotel and once again reaffirmed my belief that Birmingham is the worst place in the UK to drive around.

Anyone care to nominate somewhere else?"

Glastonbury is pretty rough...lots of off road, rattly trackway, lots of waiting about for wagons and plant machinery to get out the way,stuck behind toilet trucks and tractors constantly, various one way systems and vehicle pass systems allowing you into certain areas at certain times so you have to alter your route accordingly, often plenty of mud and thick crowds to drive through in places.

BUT....for half an hour in the early hours of the morning, one day a year, just before it opens, i get to use it as my own personal racetrack

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By *an_WoodMan
over a year ago

Stafford

Stafford despite not being a City now has traffic lights for every junction or roundabout. Prefer the M6 and even Aston expressway

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Paris... especially the motorways around the south. "
yeagh paris is bad roundabout there with seventeen exits brussels bab aswell

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

any city centre - and i went to milton keynes once and didnt figure out the numbering system to the roundabouts - took a while to get where i was going

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By *horltzMan
over a year ago

heysham

Bangkok ! It's just one giant car park

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

I will make my escape from Birmingham later today. Huzzah!

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By *aGaGagging for itCouple
over a year ago

Newcastle upon Tyne

Vietnam and specifically Hanoi. I realised that the full Highway Code is 'Give way to anything bigger'. Buses and trucks have preference everywhere and every time. Tough if you're a pedestrian.

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By *ophieslutTV/TS
over a year ago

Central

"Los Angeles

LA was fine, although my driver was an excitable gay guy who was forever holding coffee in one hand and his phone in the other while he bounced the car around driving with his knees.

It's very difficult without a car."

It depends which suburbs and districts you may be driving between - I've had great travel there but longer distance and rush hours can be hell.

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By *uddlybear2015Man
over a year ago

BEDFORD

"any city centre - and i went to milton keynes once and didnt figure out the numbering system to the roundabouts - took a while to get where i was going"

Its laid out in a grid for simplicity

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By *risky_MareWoman
over a year ago

...Up on the Downs

Because of Crossrail and the Cycle super-highway constuction at the moment it's London, it's bloody gridlock in town!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I actually find Birmingham normally ok, although nightmare at the minute with all the work.

Someone above says Bradford, drove there no problem too.

Have not attempted to drive in London but always looks a mare.

Hate driving in Leeds the one way system always gets me confused.

You take your life in your hands for Coventry ring road.

Great Barr (a suburb of Birmingham) has a nightmare motorway roundabout where everyone has to chop and change lanes, don't know how there isn't more accidents

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By *raceytvcdTV/TS
over a year ago

mansfield

"Whatever the area was that I drove around in Leicester the other day. It was awful, I was questioning how they 'd passed their test and really thought I wouldn't get out alive!"
i know who your talking about and they havnt passed there tests

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I drove in brum for the first time the other week..I did find it stressful..but coming out was easier.

For me the worst place I've driven is Dartmoor national park. I live in very rural Wales and our roads are straighter and wider than theirs I couldn't wait to get home!!!

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