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Traffic and travel conditions for the a12 19:24pm.

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The A12 is one of the busiest roads in England, connecting London with the east coast. It runs 129 miles (208 km) from the Blackwall Tunnel in East London to Lowestoft in Suffolk. Along the way, it passes through Essex and crosses the River Orwell near Ipswich.

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The A12 is a vital route for commuters, tourists and freight traffic, and it also serves as an alternative to the M25 for accessing the ports of Felixstowe and Harwich. However, the A12 also suffers from congestion, accidents and roadworks, which can cause delays and frustration for drivers.

Northbound A12 Roadworks and Delays

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Please, please, please. Don’t let cars going A12 southbound after J27 to be in 3 lanes and then after a few yards back in 2. Put the cones as cars are approaching J27and NOT AFTER the junction where there are 3 lanes for another 2 junctions. During your “invisible roadworks” (as usual) keep the whole stretch of the A12 between J27 and J25 as 2 lanes. Believe me, hat makes all the difference. Unless, of course, there is a policy to make endless queues, wherever you can, so motorists have to spent much more fuel, in order to help the poor oil companies…..

Absolutely no planning at all. Travelling from London to Frinton on the night of 22/9/23. Road closed at Marks Tey, diversion through Stanway and Colchester…….so they decide to dig up the road in the middle of the diversion as well….total lack of communication between local authorities and contractors. Turned into a 2.5 hr journey !!!!!.

Absolute farce. Southbound last night 30/08. Diversion signs on the route from the start of the closures almost non existent and confusing bearing in mind the diversion is along narrow very bendy single carriageways. All made worse by the dimmed or turned off street lights on the return journey through Colchester. As an aside, what use is a smallish yellow warning sign before each overbridge that says ‘warning overhead structure’? If a driver cannot see a very large concrete bridge twenty yards in front of him/her they are not going to notice a small yellow sign are they?

I’m sure one night we were going around in circles. So went back to Ipswich and got back on the old routes!

Instead of spending the now mandatory excessive millions on widening one road, why not use those millions to build another road to service this part of the East of England. That way there are no lane closures, no queues, no disruption to people’s work day. Tonight the A12 is closed from Colchester, the people stuck on it can’t even get off as surrounding roads are gridlocked. We’ll done decision makers, just another expensive mess the tax paying public have to put up with. Pity we don’t all have helicopters !!!

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Touring the Top 10 Moscow Metro Stations

By Claudia Looi 2 Comments

Komsomolskaya metro station looks like a museum. It has vaulted ceilings and baroque decor.

Hidden underground, in the heart of Moscow, are historical and architectural treasures of Russia. These are Soviet-era creations – the metro stations of Moscow.

Our guide Maria introduced these elaborate metro stations as “the palaces for the people.” Built between 1937 and 1955, each station holds its own history and stories. Stalin had the idea of building beautiful underground spaces that the masses could enjoy. They would look like museums, art centers, concert halls, palaces and churches. Each would have a different theme. None would be alike.

The two-hour private tour was with a former Intourist tour guide named Maria. Maria lived in Moscow all her life and through the communist era of 60s to 90s. She has been a tour guide for more than 30 years. Being in her 60s, she moved rather quickly for her age. We traveled and crammed with Maria and other Muscovites on the metro to visit 10 different metro stations.

Arrow showing the direction of metro line 1 and 2

Moscow subways are very clean

To Maria, every street, metro and building told a story. I couldn’t keep up with her stories. I don’t remember most of what she said because I was just thrilled being in Moscow.   Added to that, she spilled out so many Russian words and names, which to one who can’t read Cyrillic, sounded so foreign and could be easily forgotten.

The metro tour was the first part of our all day tour of Moscow with Maria. Here are the stations we visited:

1. Komsomolskaya Metro Station  is the most beautiful of them all. Painted yellow and decorated with chandeliers, gold leaves and semi precious stones, the station looks like a stately museum. And possibly decorated like a palace. I saw Komsomolskaya first, before the rest of the stations upon arrival in Moscow by train from St. Petersburg.

2. Revolution Square Metro Station (Ploshchad Revolyutsii) has marble arches and 72 bronze sculptures designed by Alexey Dushkin. The marble arches are flanked by the bronze sculptures. If you look closely you will see passersby touching the bronze dog's nose. Legend has it that good luck comes to those who touch the dog's nose.

Touch the dog's nose for good luck. At the Revolution Square station

Revolution Square Metro Station

3. Arbatskaya Metro Station served as a shelter during the Soviet-era. It is one of the largest and the deepest metro stations in Moscow.

Arbatskaya Metro Station

4. Biblioteka Imeni Lenina Metro Station was built in 1935 and named after the Russian State Library. It is located near the library and has a big mosaic portrait of Lenin and yellow ceramic tiles on the track walls.

Lenin's portrait at the Biblioteka Imeni Lenina Metro Station

5. Kievskaya Metro Station was one of the first to be completed in Moscow. Named after the capital city of Ukraine by Kiev-born, Nikita Khruschev, Stalin's successor.

Kievskaya Metro Station

6. Novoslobodskaya Metro Station  was built in 1952. It has 32 stained glass murals with brass borders.

Novoslobodskaya metro station

7. Kurskaya Metro Station was one of the first few to be built in Moscow in 1938. It has ceiling panels and artwork showing Soviet leadership, Soviet lifestyle and political power. It has a dome with patriotic slogans decorated with red stars representing the Soviet's World War II Hall of Fame. Kurskaya Metro Station is a must-visit station in Moscow.

Ceiling panel and artworks at Kurskaya Metro Station

8. Mayakovskaya Metro Station built in 1938. It was named after Russian poet Vladmir Mayakovsky. This is one of the most beautiful metro stations in the world with 34 mosaics painted by Alexander Deyneka.

Mayakovskaya station

One of the over 30 ceiling mosaics in Mayakovskaya metro station

9. Belorusskaya Metro Station is named after the people of Belarus. In the picture below, there are statues of 3 members of the Partisan Resistance in Belarus during World War II. The statues were sculpted by Sergei Orlov, S. Rabinovich and I. Slonim.

10. Teatralnaya Metro Station (Theatre Metro Station) is located near the Bolshoi Theatre.

Teatralnaya Metro Station decorated with porcelain figures .

Taking the metro's escalator at the end of the tour with Maria the tour guide.

Have you visited the Moscow Metro? Leave your comment below.

January 15, 2017 at 8:17 am

An excellent read! Thanks for much for sharing the Russian metro system with us. We're heading to Moscow in April and exploring the metro stations were on our list and after reading your post, I'm even more excited to go visit them. Thanks again 🙂

December 6, 2017 at 10:45 pm

Hi, do you remember which tour company you contacted for this tour?

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