I suspect it’s good old Health and Safety etc. again – whereas a pile of sand used to be fine for diesel/petrol/blood/whatever absorption, it now has to be dealt with properly in case some cock skids on it, or is traumatised by the site of aforementioned fluids.

Equally, if it’s a fatality then there does need to be more done in the way of site/scene examination etc, and there’s not a lot that can be done ’til everyone’s done their bit.

But yes, the entire thing does seem to be distinctly anti-traffic, almost “Well if you’re going to drive, you should expect these things to screw your journey up” – except of course it also screwed up all the buses, so it wasn’t just us selfish bastard drivers that were getting knackered by it.

Yeah, I suppose.

On that score I guess I’m a bit to blame, in that a) I never remember, and b) I don’t trust sat-nav to that level – it’s mis-directed me on known routes too many times for me to now have that much confidence in it.

Maybe I should use it like that more often.

Yes, we’ve got a TomTom – it’s about three years old now, so beginning to show its age a bit.

As for mis-directing, it’s tried (repeatedly in London) to take me along roads that don’t exist – and denied the existence of Tower Bridge – along with other occasions of fuck-uppery.

Admittedly, I haven’t forked out for ‘updated maps’ etc., and that might help – but still, the fact it doesn’t believe Tower Bridge exists rather chuffs my trust in the poxy thing.