A couple of miles outside Gloucester along the A417 (also called The Cotswold Way – it’s a modern-day road that follows the line of an ancient Roman road) the road climbs up a long, steep hill to a very large roundabout.
The roundabout is called The Air Balloon and it’s the junction between the A417 Cotswold Way and the A436 Stow-on-the-Wold road.
And it’s a busy junction.
It’s a busy roundabout.
Fucking arrogant ignorant stupid bastard road terrorists Some HGV drivers are so totally fucking inconsiderate lack sufficient consideration and deliberately accidentally position themselves on the Air Balloon roundabout in such a way that they block both lanes as they attempt to speed (yes, I really do mean ‘speed’!!) around it.
They try to speed around it because the next mile of the A417 is another long, steep and (for the fucking arrogant ignorant stupid bastard road terrorists lorry drivers) is a long slow crawl up the incline.
That’s why they speed.
They’re trying to get up the hill before their lorries run out of impulsion and they have to drop down to 1st gear – which on most lorries – (mine included) is just a crawler gear.
Now I know you might read this post and think ‘Oh, it’s just him having yet another rant at fucking arrogant ignorant stupid bastard road terrorists lorry drivers’.
Again.
But I’m not.
This evening I have evidence that the fucking arrogant ignorant stupid bastard road terrorists lorry drivers (or one of them at least) are racing around the Air Balloon roundabout on the A417 in an attempt to climb – speedily – the rest of the hill up the A417 on to the Cotswolds.
Photographic evidence.
And here it is.
So go on then, you fucking arrogant ignorant stupid bastard road terrorists lorry drivers who might be reading this.
Explain to me – the holder of an HGV licence by the way – how it’s possible to do that to an articulated rig if the fucking arrogant ignorant stupid bastard road terrorist lorry driver wasn’t driving much too fast around the roundabout.
Thank you.
B.
I want to laugh! Does that make me a bad person?
Serves him right!
Sooz: No, I think it makes you human. 🙂 It made me titter – even though I was held up because they closed all three roads to pull the lorry out of the hedge.
Caroline: There’re roadworks and a 40mph limit on the A419 either side of the Swindon/Motorola roundabout but the rest of the A419/A417 is clear.
I’d have offered to take you to lunch (good campus restaurant) if I’d known you were going to be so close!
Enjoy your trip.
🙂
Ha, I’m driving up there today on my way to Stroud. Are those roadworks still there?
I fucking hate the air balloon roundabout with a passion.
That’s all.