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"Steven Lane" <Steveroblane@aol.com> wrote in message
news:GDv2v7.1vz@lugnet.com...
> A lorry crashed on the M6 motorway (freeway is U.S parlance) in the early
> hours of this mourning, It said on the news that it cost business millions
> of pounds due to the enourmous delays. Why does it take 8 hours to re-open • a
> motorway? That's a third of a day, just to move a damaged lorry and it's
> load off the carrigeway. I reckon it's because the police insist in
> documenting every aspect of the crash. Surely there's a better way to deal
> with a crash where people don't have to suffer the disruption and sit in
> traffic jams for hours?
Not as bad as the traffic chaos they apparently caused in Central London
yesterday when the police closed a section of the A40 or something for 3
hours so they could shoot a recruitment video about being a traffic cop!
regards
lawrence
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| A lorry crashed on the M6 motorway (freeway is U.S parlance) in the early hours of this mourning, It said on the news that it cost business millions of pounds due to the enourmous delays. Why does it take 8 hours to re-open a motorway? That's a (...) (24 years ago, 24-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.loc.uk)
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