Excitement and adventure

May 25th, 2006

It’s all gone a bit quiet on here lately! Time to spice things up with the story of my day out…

For the uninitiated, I am a geek, interested in roads. I (and like-minded people, who can be found here at SABRE) were mortified two years ago to discover that the Powers That Be were planning to get rid of one of the most-discussed anomalies on the road network. It’s a small road called the A6144(M) which is a motorway but was only a piddly two-lane thing. Oodles of info here.

On Wednesday night it was closed and all the motorwayness removed. Noooo! So I set out to get some little memento to keep for posterity, on behalf of SABRE.
We went to the depot, asked around, got passed to contractors and subcontractors, had to get someone out of bed who had been working there over night, and ended up scrambling around on the back of a works truck in piles of metal poles and electrical equipment. But I did it! Ha!

Saved, cleaned up and residing in my living room. A good day’s work.

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