But what makes a road ‘depressing’ is a finer art to pin down. Miles of bare road, bland scenery and the odd annoying speed camera at the bottom of a hill when you’re bound to be accidentally topping 70 mph if only to be ecological on the incline…
When Motorcycle News Magazine asked 3,000 motorcyclists to name the most depressing road in the UK, the A30 at Bodmin was a chart-topper at no 9, nestling only two notches up from the M5 northbound.
Come on (motorcycle) people – the M5 is SERIOUSLY more depressing than our Cornish tarmac!
What’s not to like? By taking the A30 passed Bodmin you no longer have to drive THROUGH Bodmin. Anyone who’s been there will know what I’m saying...
It also means you are 10 minutes from home (me), about an hour from the Battery Rocks at Penzance, or in the other direction about 300 miles from anywhere else. Marvellous.
The nice thing about Cornwall is we don’t have a single motorway, and it’s nice to keep it that way.
Our roads are peppered with services that annoyingly aren’t open 24 hours, eateries you’ve never heard of, pubs which are infamously haunted and petrol stations which are inexplicably as expensive as those on the M25. Suck it up, Mr/Mrs Motorcyclist – that’s just part of the charm of Cornwall…
2 comments:
I agree it is boring. All the excitment has gone on that part of the A30. Is there going to be a lorry going to suck under the Iron Bridge? How long is it going to take me to get from Indian Queens to Innis Downs? And the jubilation of getting through without any hold ups. How its a boring 70mph all the way along. Thank you Highways Agency.
Lol - back in those days to get to London would take about 7 hours on the old A30/A39... You just never know when you'd come across a tractor or broken down bus...
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