Ship on the beach- N Wales Tues 23.00

Not a nice spot to be in Northerly gales. It seems he has a part load of stone on & got into trouble trying reverse off the jetty into the wind. How well does your boat reverse from a standing start? :rolleyes:

Doesn't seem to be anyone attempting salvage yet, so it could be there for a very long time.
 
A rather selfish question (for which I apologise).

Given the imminent exodus of half the population from the north west to north Wales, can any locals please keep us up-to-date with the status of the A55. I'm planning to pass Llandulas pier before 09h00 on Friday morning.

Thanks for any additional info.
 
davidjackson said:
A rather selfish question (for which I apologise).

Given the imminent exodus of half the population from the north west to north Wales, can any locals please keep us up-to-date with the status of the A55. I'm planning to pass Llandulas pier before 09h00 on Friday morning.

Thanks for any additional info.
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I've not ventured out today to look but, the latest BBC News shows traffic in the background moving again on the A55.
 
davidjackson said:
A rather selfish question (for which I apologise).

Given the imminent exodus of half the population from the north west to north Wales, can any locals please keep us up-to-date with the status of the A55. I'm planning to pass Llandulas pier before 09h00 on Friday morning.

Thanks for any additional info.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/travelnews/wales

A55 Conwy, eastbound between J22 Promenade and J23 A547 Abergele Road

A55 Conwy - One lane closed and very slow traffic on A55 eastbound between J22, Promenade (Old Colwyn) and J23, A547 (Llanddulas), because of a cargo ship aground and the salvage operation,. Congestion to J20, A547 (Colwyn Bay).
 
It must be quite novel having tailbacks up there these days. I remember many, many trips to Holyhead for the ferry as a kid and what a difference the new road made when it opened.

I see lots of opportunities to tell the younger lot "you should have seen it years ago, like this every day it was".
 
davidjackson said:
A rather selfish question (for which I apologise).

Given the imminent exodus of half the population from the north west to north Wales, can any locals please keep us up-to-date with the status of the A55. I'm planning to pass Llandulas pier before 09h00 on Friday morning.

Thanks for any additional info.
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Might be worth going over Snowdonia on the A5 for a change. There'll be snow on the mountains, SWMBO will like that. ;)
 
Before we ran away to sea, we lived near Chester and kept the boat at Menai Bridge and used the A55 most weekends. Traffic on it varied from the sublime to the rediculous, with seemingly constant roadworks moving up and down the road..... Yes, I can remember the old coast road, which was really bad but the new A55 also bulks out with traffic at peak times in the summer. The choice is then to use the A5, which whilst mostly free flowing goes at the pace of the slowest 'look Doris' driver. We often found it better to wait until about 10pm before setting off or staying overnight Sunday and going straight to work fromt he boat.

Hope they sort out the grounding. I seem to recall that there was a coaster from the same jetty lost in the Irish Sea late last year?
 
WilliamUK said:
It must be quite novel having tailbacks up there these days. I remember many, many trips to Holyhead for the ferry as a kid and what a difference the new road made when it opened.

I see lots of opportunities to tell the younger lot "you should have seen it years ago, like this every day it was".
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Unfortunately not so. Tailbacks occur all along the A55 at any time, recently the bridge repairs at St Asaph caused massive queues for a year or so.

The biggest change in the route to North Wales came with the Queensferry bypass. I was commuting from Wales to Ellesmere Port. Before the bypass the normal commute time was an hour at least, far more on summer Fridays. Now it's 20 minutes on a bad day, motorway standard for most of the way.
 
I had a feeling local knowledge might prove me wrong. I don't think I've ever been caught in traffic since the new road opened all those years ago, though.

Having been to New York City, I have a very hard time understanding how we still have such trouble with roadworks here. There they close a road and dig up a section overnight. They then cover it with a temporary surface (thick steel plates usually) and re-open for the next day. They then close off the road and get to work again after things quiet down. Seriously a much less problematic way of working.

Works on the German autobahns are great too. Countdown to roadworks starting a good couple of miles out... then about a quarter of a mile out the speed limit comes down and the cones start. The cones last only as long as needed for the current work and then stop with a corresponding restoration of the speed limit (read, removal).

None of this "15 miles of cones at 40mph and not a jot of work happening for 14.5 miles of them" nonsense we put up with.
 
Searush said:
Might be worth going over Snowdonia on the A5 for a change. There'll be snow on the mountains, SWMBO will like that. ;)
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Might be worth checking for road resurfacing works as when I came that way recently they had 3 different convoy systems between Swallow falls at Betwys and Capel Curig:eek: Took me over 2 hours to do a 1 hr trip to Bangor.

Very scenic:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

Ok for pensioners, flat cap and pipe drivers, and elderly gentlemen from staffordshire cruising in their rag top mercs:D:D
 
vyv_cox said:
Tailbacks occur all along the A55 at any time, recently the bridge repairs at St Asaph caused massive queues for a year or so.

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Don't get me started now :mad:

Over the course of time, I've penned several e-mails to the Authorities accusing them of dereliction of duty in causing complete gridlock, inflicting total misery to the motoring public, lack of interest in CO2 pollution upon the environment and so on. Their standard answer is that their roadworks meet the requirements laid down by Brussels.
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Searush said:
You haven't seen the speed I drive that at, have you then? :D You might have blinked when I overtook you.
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Traffic depends on time of day. We used to live in Stockport and the 80 mile trip to Conwy took around 55 mins late Friday night but, on occasions, it took 3+ hours on a bank holiday Monday to get home again.
 
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