Proof, if it were needed, that we’re an odd lot in the UK: The BBC want to know what your favourite motorway is.
You know, those long, barren stretches of tarmac that keep you trapped in traffic jams for 3/4 of your life, when they’re not trying to smear you all over the central reservation via a foreign lorry driver, who’s using a mobile with one hand, whilst pleasuring the unwilling hitch hiker next to him with the other.
But I can’t escape my English-ness I suppose, so here’s my favourite: The M6 through Cumbria.
Hard to believe that this is the same motorway that passes through the concrete hell-hole of Brummie land a few hundred miles south. I like this one because it’s the only motorway that passes through a national park, and because it means I’m coming back to Scotland!
Anyone else going to volunteer a favourite?
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Can I nominate Lake Shore Drive in Chicago? Especially coming south from the North Side — and even more particularly right where it curves out toward the lake (where the Drake is — East Lake Shore Drive it’s called).
But not at rush hour.
Maybe a clear Sunday morning in Spring or early Summer.
Pictures?
I agree with your suggestion that the M6 in Cumbria is perhaps the finest. The scenery up there is so spectacular.
Other interesting motorways include the M50 (a little jobby doo-dah that links the M5 to Ross-on-Wye, and is extremely un-motorway-like), and the M62 as it traverses the Pennines.
I like the M50, as you usually get it to yourself, like the M45. The high part of the M62 is beautiful, though it was were I had my first ever puncture – it was pretty hairy changing it with lorries thundering past about 6 inches away….
I have a soft spot for the M10 as well, given how pathetically short it is, but I understand it’s soon to disappear….
Yup, the M62 is a lorry-dodging nightmare at the best of times.
Certainly worth avoiding when foggy, or snowy. If both apply, simply give up.