One of the features I like of the Coventry ring road is the digital signage as it's not common and it means the signs don't fade

As a Coventrian, I’ve never found the ring road difficult to use, but I can see why someone who’s never driven on it might find it scary. Some of the junctions are very short, meaning not much room for weaving, leading to cars slowing down and that’s when there’s a problem. If you just flow with the traffic and go when you can it works ok. It’s also great for getting round the city…on weekends when it’s closed (eg Motorfest), you realise how useful it is.

I said that before you even said it 😁 used to drive my Artic round it very often . The only good thing is that if you miss a junction you just go round and try again !

I had in the 1980s to travel to Coventry for regional meetings for work and I traveled by train. I remember getting out of the station and feeling there was this huge barrier round the inner city that didn't help my traveling on foot to the location of meetings.

Its quite soothing to see you just endlessly driving round the ring road to that music.

I live in Coventry and I’ve never really been frightened of the ring road as it has an average speed of 35-40 mph! The M60 in Manchester has several junctions on top of each other where traffic travels between 50 and 70 mph! Far more dangerous. Just be very vigilant on either of these roads. The ring road will be sparing!

Remember doing my St john Ambulance cycle responder training on the Coventry Ring Road, a interesting experience. great video.

And I thought the slip roads between Princess Rd and the A56 on the A57(M) were bad 😬

Brilliant video, I've been on the Coventry ring road quite a few times and it can be confusing but it's perfectly fine if you know where you're going. Would be nice to see some improvements like maybe traffic lights which you suggested for example.

The major problem is the left lane hoggers who are triggered when you move back across from the right Lane to exit your junction, and try and close down your space. It’s infuriating and still happens all of the time.

Coventry ring road is scary and I hate using it even though I moved to W Mids 30 years ago. The major suprise is its not unigue. The same design team started on Reading. Thankfully they cancelled th job after a handful of junctions hadbeen built

Derby city centre has one of those weaving junctions and yeah it's scary and puts you into a hyperfocus mode. They need to be updated because the perceived flow ain't worth the danger.

Weaving works well when you know that everyone on the right has to go left and everyone on the left has to go right. This is one of the reasons that cloverleafs with collector/distributor lanes work much better than cloverleafs without them.

Looks like Mancunian Way, but as a full-on ring of death.

Quite interesting, don't know know much about Coventry or the COV than the Railway Station

There is weaving and there is weaving but that is next level dangerous. It’s hard to believe that Civil Engineers, even in the 1960’s, we’re not aware of the risk and impact on capacity. My guess is they were under political pressure to put ramps where they did. You are right about the roads within the ring roads. There are well documented pros and cons about ring roads but one of the biggest pros is that you can give the streets within the ring back to the people.

Can't believe you were in town and didn't let me know! Also, tut tut not using the ring road correctly. Tbf you *mostly* used it correctly (keep right at all times unless exiting), but I did spot you move left occasionally for seemingly no reason. I can forgive you not knowing that, being an out-of-towner and all. Not that the overhead signs don't already (sort of) tell you how to use it properly, that is 😛

Use it every day. Biggest issue is moving right at junction 4 to let traffic on coming from Leicester. Need to exit J6 station but J4 and J5 (London) on-flow blocks up the left lane which makes it very difficult to exit. If I don’t move over I get honked. My first experience was in a LHD German registered VW Combi van. Impossible to see traffic when filtering on. Generally it’s best to keep right until your junction. Shame lots of drivers don’t. I know some elderly drivers who navigate by going up and down the slip roads and never join the actual ring road.

All through traffic inside the ring should definitely be removed. A zone system like Houten's would be nice

There is a GSJ in Newport city centre which has traffic lights at the southern end (on both mainline and the slip road) and a 20 mph speed limit.

Nice 👍

The only place I manage to get lost and that’s saying something!

This does explain why 'being sent to Coventry' is known as a punishment.

Great film, thank you Bryn. Why aren't you running the country with your common sense!

JUST WHY COVENTRY

Could easily be resolved by painting huge notices on the floor and displaying signs stating 'KEEP RIGHT UNTIL EXIT'.

Well being the scariest roads in and around Coventry. Plus that white van who cut you up are nasty drivers who don’t seem to care and are at fault of causing accidents.

Scary? Not a patch on Junction 25 M60.

You're supposed to stay left unless you're coming off at the next junction. All the signs point to that, but people are idiots. I did driving lessons on it back in the 90s, it's a great road :)

Coventry looks very 1970s

Wasn't it planned to be part of the motorway network

The van didn’t speed up, you were in the wrong lane the right lane goes straight on, if you read the signs it’s very simple

So if this isn't the scariest road in the UK, where is?

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