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IN THE NEWS
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Stuart Thomas bring you his regular round-up oft way our local and national press has covered the
wonderful world of road transport this week.
The Romans might have trampled their leather sandals all c Britain 1,000 years ago, but one thing they failed to stamr was the proliferation of bendy roads.
This is a good job, because Continental Tyres would hE been unable to squeeze publicity mileage out of its surve the country's, er, bendiest roads.
Somewhere called Zig Zag Hill came out top, according to [11.1[4 • • the BBC News website, which reported that drivers travelling = at 30mph round this part of the B3081 would "experience the •----„.
same lateral forces as he or she X.FX:V=t7 Hatch or on a rollercoaster". al; Website visitors were then encouraged to comment on their favourite stretches of the UK's road would while driving around Brands network rollercoaster.
"How about the A57 Snake Pass?" suggested one, co up images of hobbits and Middle Earth.
This certainly got the descriptive juices flowing, "The A out of Reading isn't called locally the 'Seven Bends of DE for nothing!" squealed another reader, as if fearing that 'F. Pass would top the league of scarily titled bendy roads, "You want bendy roads," taunted someone else, "try the North Wales road off the A470 at Bronaber leading tc Llanuwchllyn; it's 11 miles of absolute hell..."
However, it was left to one lone (Yorkshire) voice to call down what was fast turning into a 'my road's more frightE than your road' argument: "...'some British roads are so I they exert the kind of forces you would expect on a race So slow down then!"
G-forces weren't respons af Oilittbl County }Iress for Simon West's mixer roiling onto its side on ti Isle of Wight. Accordinc that venerable organ, ft of Wight County Press, E70,000 vehicle topple when the verge collaps due to being "undemiir rabbits". A late entry foi BBC's search for bend) DE& -44,Eiltrt — --=‘,Yi•?•-'2' • — the Rampaging Rabbits' Road of F now surely on the cards.