Introducing our new weekly column: What grinds my gears All our own opinions, and likely to cause some debate, we're sure (and hope)!
Every Friday, after I finish work, I leave my home in Lancashire and head up the M6 to drop off my daughter with her dad and it's a journey that drives me insane.
Obviously it's caused by an excess of vehicles but I have never understood how there can be slow moving traffic one second and then, the second the matrix signs tell us "End", everything seems to miraculously return to normal. Why didn't all those vehicles at the front just keep going?!About 10 years ago I was asked a question at a pub quiz.
And do you know what I think is to blame? It's not the increased volume of traffic at peak times nor is it the way that motorists slow RIGHT DOWN and insist on immediately moving into the next lane where the M61 meets the M6 north - despite the fact that it's a designated lane .