Drivers travel 600m miles just to avoid motorways
Monday 23rd August 2010, 6:38AM BST.
Drivers travelled more than 600 million miles last year just to avoid motorways, according to figures from the AA.
Motorway-averse motorists used the AA’s online route planner to devise more than five million routes specifically to steer clear of motorways.
The routes average more than 125 miles and, stretched end to end, would extend around the world 24,000 times.
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Doesnt’t suprise me. Save me 20 mins off my journey getting off at M5 J2 and zig zag through estate road to get to Walsall that it is to stay on the Motorway. Completly the opposite to what these are designed to do.
There are also many driver who are just scared of motorways and would avoid them at all costs.
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The Knight takes a variety of routes depending on traffic conditions. The round the houses route ALWAYS takes 35 minutes, whereas the M6 between J6 and J9 can take anywhere between 25 and 90 minutes. A quick check of the traffic cameras before I leave dictates my route.
The Knight’s Princess always tries to avoid the motorway because of the often poor design of the slip roads round here which makes it difficult to join the motorways.
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this story doesn’t surprise me 1 bit.i know alot of my friends who don’t use the motorway .
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This doesnt surprise me one bit and I am one of those people who until yesterday would take the shorter distance but slower in time route just to avoid the motorway as it scares me to the point I am unconvinced they are safer to drive on.
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