What is it with...?

[Pat "5mph"]

For me it's the easiest way to feel on top of the world without having to climb hills As others said, you can take some really nice pictures stopped on a motorway bridge.

 

[Shut Up Legs]

I cross a cyclist/pedestrian bridge over a freeway on my way home from work. Sometimes, I've been tempted to stop, then wave and smile at the motorists, as if to say "Yes, I'm really enjoying my commute. Hope you're enjoying the semi-gridlock!"

 

[stu9000]

Motorways are amazing tech. Sure they are noisy, sometimes gridlocked mares. But ask your Dad how's he travelled up the A1in the old days, through every bottlenecked village at about 10 mph with massive tailbacks. Those whistful stories you hear about the golden days of driving were a very narrow window when the roads were there but the cars mostly were not.

Most of us who ride bikes still use the car to travel long distances with unheard of ease.

Just because cars are changing the environment, are melting the ice caps and may cause sea levels to rise 3 metres, it makes some people overlook the amazing luxuries the car provides.

So why not stop and look. In the same way I gawk at a jumbo jet some things are worth seeing... ...however briefly. Can't stand that road noise and personally I hate travelling in a box from one box to another box.

 

[mark c]

I always look and will stop if its stationary, which is quite often in the holiday season.

 

[Dave the Smeghead]

Don't understand it myself, having spent far too much time stuck on the bloody things for work. My bikes take me as far away from motorways as my legs will let us, whichever one I am riding.
Now sitting just off the apron at an airbase watching the fighters come and go thats a different story. To be 50 feet behind a Tornado GR4 when it is about to do a hot take off, watching both the afterburners wink on and feeling the vibration from the ground and inside your chest just before the pilot releases the brakes, then burns off into the sky on a big jet of blue flames from each engine - that I can watch again and again. I also prefer the smell of Avtur (the aviation fuel the fighters run on) to belching diesel and petrol smoke.

 

[shouldbeinbed]

modern day equivalent of leaning on a five bar gate watching sheep* in a field.

*deliberate analogy for drivers.

@Dave the Smeghead I was brought up a few miles from RAF Wyton, we spent many hours sat on the gate downwind from the end of the runway getting the whoosh of the jets powering up

 

[Dave the Smeghead]

@shouldbeinbed Currently working at RAF Marham and ride the peritrack most days as well as some of the lanes in the area. Love watching the Tornados come and go - although not so much when some went up after midnight last night! I am living on the base and when they go up it rattles the glass on my bedside table

 

[GrumpyGregry]

So why not stop and look. In the same way I gawk at a jumbo jet some things are worth seeing... ...however briefly. Can't stand that road noise and personally I hate travelling in a box from one box to another box.

Now Concorde was worth gawkin' at, but a 747? Nah!

 

[GrumpyGregry]

I liked to stop and smile at the stationary northbound traffic on the A23 at Warninglid of a morning but I've since changed my route and go under the A23 now. Crossing the M23 in the small hours is a blast and crossing the A24 at anytime of day or night always makes me google-eyed at how much money we spend on a maa-hoo-sive roads to speed folk from one traffic jam to another.