One Commute 4 Motorways

[Butts]

I live in Falkirk and am working in Glasgow at the moment.

My journey is under 30 miles but involves utilising 4 Motorways - can anyone beat that for a similar length of travel?

M9, M876, M80 and M8 in case anyone was wondering

 

[starrymarkb]

There is a bus in Bristol (X7) that uses the M32, M4, M5 & M48 for a 25mile run Bristol to Chepstow via Cribbs Causeway

 

[ralphchadkirk]

35 miles, A1(M), M25, M11, A406, A13.

 

[Mr Spock]

I live in Falkirk and am working in Glasgow at the moment.

My journey is under 30 miles but involves utilising 4 Motorways - can anyone beat that for a similar length of travel?

M9, M876, M80 and M8 in case anyone was wondering

I hope you keep within the speed limits

 

[Butts]

I hope you keep within the speed limits

Ho Ho ...... very witty

Actually surprisingly I generally do as most of the Motorways are only 2 Lanes and rarely facilitate excessive speeding. Lorries clogging up the outside lane are a perennial problem

The final part of my journey involves using the M8 where in theory the speed limit is 50mph as you approach Glasgow City Centre, but no one seems to obey that.

When I started the thread I meant to mention when I join the M9 that and the other three Motorways are used concurrently without leaving onto another type of road until the end of my journey.

 

[Zoidberg]

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I meant to mention when I join the M9 that and the other three Motorways are used concurrently without leaving onto another type of road until the end of my journey.

Now that is very clever - I'd love to see that.

I'm sure that you meant consecutively.

 

[Butts]

Now that is very clever - I'd love to see that.

I'm sure that you meant consecutively.

Indeed - my car does not split into four

 

[EM2]

West Malling to South Nutfield is M20, M26, M25, M23 for 27-ish miles. Although I only did this a few times, as we had a customer in South Nutfield.

 

[Butts]

West Malling to South Nutfield is M20, M26, M25, M23 for 27-ish miles. Although I only did this a few times, as we had a customer in South Nutfield.

Wow that's another "four" still waiting for a Five

 

[balne-wonderer]

I did Bradford via my house in Leeds then Scunthorpe

M606, M62, M1, M621 (back on M62), M18, M180 and finally M181

7 motorways but was around 60 miles.

 

[Metrailway]

Uxbridge - Maidenhead

M40, M25, M4, A404(M)/A308(M). 20 miles.

 

[Class172]

In theory, you'd be able to do A1(M),M62,M1,M621,A58(M),A64(M) - that's the most I can think of and is 22 miles - https://www.google.co.uk/maps/previ...eef!2m2!1d-1.266357!2d53.673182!1m0!3e0?hl=en

 

[PermitToTravel]

The greatest number of motorways one can use without doubling back or leaving the motorway network is definitely far higher than that, e.g. M271, M27, M3, M25, M4, M5, M42, M40, M25*, M1, M6, M42*, M6 Toll, M6*, M56, M62, M60, M61, M6*, A74(M), M74, M73, M80, M876, M9, M876* is 21 motorways (and 900ish miles)

A better challenge might be finding the highest number of motorways to distance ratio.

 

[Class172]

The greatest number of motorways one can use without doubling back or leaving the motorway network is definitely far higher than that, e.g. M271, M27, M3, M25, M4, M5, M42, M40, M25*, M1, M6, M42*, M6 Toll, M6*, M56, M62, M60, M61, M6*, A74(M), M74, M73, M80, M876, M9, M876* is 21 motorways (and 900ish miles)

A better challenge might be finding the highest number of motorways to distance ratio.

Well of course you can go higher: I was trying to keep the distance below 30 miles.

 

[Zoidberg]

The greatest number of motorways one can use without doubling back or leaving the motorway network is definitely far higher than that, e.g. M271, M27, M3, M25, M4, M5, M42, M40, M25*, M1, M6, M42*, M6 Toll, M6*, M56, M62, M60, M61, M6*, A74(M), M74, M73, M80, M876, M9, M876* is 21 motorways (and 900ish miles)

A better challenge might be finding the highest number of motorways to distance ratio.

Butts it's about one's commute - how many more than in the original post does one use, consecutively.

 

[PermitToTravel]

Yeah, of course. I just though Class172 was referring to the most one could use consecutively

 

[EM2]

If I'd lived in Higham (near Rochester), it would have been M2, A228, M20, M26, M25, M23.
That would be just over 37 miles to South Nutfield.

 

[balne-wonderer]

In theory, you'd be able to do A1(M),M62,M1,M621,A58(M),A64(M) - that's the most I can think of and is 22 miles - https://www.google.co.uk/maps/previ...eef!2m2!1d-1.266357!2d53.673182!1m0!3e0?hl=en

I could have, in theory, done the 64M and 58M as it's part of the Leeds inner ring road but living in Swarcliffe it's easier for me to do the M1 up to the Garforth Jct.

If I knew about this challenge, i'd have done the ring road route

 

[Butts]

If I'd lived in Higham (near Rochester), it would have been M2, A228, M20, M26, M25, M23.
That would be just over 37 miles to South Nutfield.

Sorry that does not count as the sojurn on the A228 disaqualifies you

 

[bb21]

Not quite a commute but one of my mates goes to his mum's a couple of times a week in Henley-in-Arden and the drive takes him on five consecutive motorways: M1, M69, M6, M42 and M40, for a distance of 50 miles.

 

[transmanche]

When I started the thread I meant to mention when I join the M9 that and the other three Motorways are used concurrently without leaving onto another type of road until the end of my journey.

And that's something you couldn't do in London.

Trivia fact: There are no junctions between Motorways wholly within Greater London.[*]

There used to be, but most urban Motorways in London were declassified in order to allow TfL to become the highway authority. The only Motorways in London now are those that are the responsibility of the Highways Agency; M1, M4 and M11. (A very short stretch of the M25 near junction 15 is in Greater London and the M25 forms the Greater London border in quite a few places.)

* The border between Greater London, Buckinghamshire and Berkshire runs through the M25/M4 junction (15/4B), but you have to leave Greater London to move from one Motorway to another.

E&OE

 

[Class172]

Not quite a commute but one of my mates goes to his mum's a couple of times a week in Henley-in-Arden and the drive takes him on five consecutive motorways: M1, M69, M6, M42 and M40, for a distance of 50 miles.

I'd be tempted to go via Longbridge island, had J16 not been a limited junction.

And that's something you couldn't do in London.

Trivia fact: There are no junctions between Motorways wholly within Greater London.[*]

There used to be, but most urban Motorways in London were declassified in order to allow TfL to become the highway authority. The only Motorways in London now are those that are the responsibility of the Highways Agency; M1, M4 and M11. (A very short stretch of the M25 near junction 15 is in Greater London and the M25 forms the Greater London border in quite a few places.)

Wind back the clock just over a decade, and you could have some legitimate answers, namely the M41, A40(M) and A102(M).

 

[Butts]

Not quite a commute but one of my mates goes to his mum's a couple of times a week in Henley-in-Arden and the drive takes him on five consecutive motorways: M1, M69, M6, M42 and M40, for a distance of 50 miles.

Bah humbug....trumped by an associate of a Cherry :cry:

 

[Class172]

I have just realised that when I travel to my cousins in Leicester, I also use 5 consecutive motorways (M5,M42,M6,M69,M1).

 

[Butts]

I have just realised that when I travel to my cousins in Leicester, I also use 5 consecutive motorways (M5,M42,M6,M69,M1).

Aaaagh....I'm going to pretend I use the M90 as well - no one will notice :cry: