The Lane to Robber's Bridge

[puddleshark]

Comments

[changeling72]

I love the look of these country roads - but not so much the idiots coming like a bat out of hell from the other direction...

[puddleshark]

I thought Dorset lanes were narrow, but the ones in Devon are even narrower, with further to reverse between passing places.

[changeling72]

I love the look of these country roads - but not so much the idiots coming like a bat out of hell from the other direction...

[heleninwales]

That lane is not entirely unlike the narrow lanes round here. I must admit, I've started avoiding some of the more out of the way places we used to go because of the worry of having to reverse to the last passing place.

[puddleshark]

Yes. It wasn't so bad in the days before satnav, but these days you never know what you are going to meet.

At one point while I was on Exmoor I ended up following a builders' merchant lorry along an extremely narrow lane, and I really thought he was going to get stuck, but he somehow managed to squeeze through.

[heleninwales]

It wasn't so bad in the days before satnav

Years ago, when I was still teaching, I knew a back lane that not only provided a shortcut but meant that you could avoid a nasty blind junction. Only locals knew it. More recently we were going to the town where I used to teach and tried the short cut, only to meet numerous tourists who hadn't really grasped how to drive down single track lanes with passing places. In the past, they'd never have gone down a random narrow lane and would have stuck to the main road, but the satnav told them which way to go.