{"id":914,"date":"2008-07-24T19:22:26","date_gmt":"2008-07-24T19:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=914"},"modified":"2008-07-24T19:36:11","modified_gmt":"2008-07-24T19:36:11","slug":"as-bad-as-you-might-imagine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=914","title":{"rendered":"As bad as you might imagine."},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, thanks to some immense traffic caused by an accident around West Bromwich today, our journey home took in a Black Country tour and a delightful journey across the new Arboretum junction in Walsall.<\/p>\n

For those of you that aren’t familiar with it, here’s a Google Maps<\/a> photo of the area in the early stages of construction of the new fuck up<\/strike> junction. It’s a fairly conventional junction that used to get badly blocked due to the road to the left being narrow, and indeed a good section of the town’s ring road being, well…. shit.<\/p>\n

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It’s been replaced with what can only be described as one of the worst, confusing, badly signed and ill-conceived junctions it has been my displeasure to drive over- and I was prepared for it and knew where I was going.<\/p>\n

it seems it’s no better for pedestrians<\/a> either.<\/p>\n

There’s other bits that are crap and confusing too. Is it compulsory to cock up the roads in Walsall?<\/p>\n

The comments are amusing on the Express & Star site, presumably more so if you’re not one of the suckers who has paid for it. I rather like this one<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, thanks to some immense traffic caused by an accident around West Bromwich today, our journey home took in a Black Country tour and a delightful journey across the new Arboretum junction in Walsall. For those of you that aren’t familiar with it, here’s a Google Maps photo of the area in the early stages … Continue reading As bad as you might imagine.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cars-driving","category-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}