M6 s/b closure in Cheshire

This could go on a little while, jcn 18 to 16

https://twitter.com/nwmwaypolice/status/492202033018310656

Here is the HA link

http://m.highways.gov.uk/BreakingNews.aspx

 

What is a SB or indeed a HA??

 

HA is Highways Agency. Not sure about SB

 

Southbound?

"So let me ride on the Southbound
Back to where I came from I don't care just where I am
So let me ride on the Southbound
and put me off somewhere near Birmingham."
Charley Pride

 

I really dislike abbr., don't you

 

LOL

Actually it's a little known fact that Charley Pride was referring to the M6 Toll when he sang 'put me off somewhere near Birmingham', inspired as he was by the interminable southbound delays between Wolverhampton and the M5 junction.

 

I like abbreviations

 

I just thought it may help somebody heading for a ferry to make alternative arrangements, as it wasn't the usual accident but bridge damage. Anyway, they seem to have done a good job as I heard when out before it was now open, still delays though.

 

That's another TLA then: ILA.