The first 10.5 miles of the A5 (Edgeware Road) away from Hyde park is pretty straight.
I’ve Googled it and there’s a section of road that’s much longer but I’m not enough of a twat to post it like some people might be tempted to do.
Twatt
There was a stretch of road near where I grew up known locally as the seven mile straight. Turns out it’s 2.4 miles. Disappointing.
Oh, you’re probably too young to remember it - I forget that not everyone is old like me.
It was a flying saucer-shaped fast food restaurant on that road, where you typed your order into a computer screen and were served by robots. It closed in the mid-90s and then became a McDonalds for a few years before it was demolished:
If we’re going outside the UK and also doing toilet chat, then I’d like to present this (about 34 miles)
This is the chott el djerid salt lake in Tunisia. At the time I went it was dry due to a drought but there should have been about a metre of water in it. Somewhere in the middle we stopped at a small shop, where i used the dirtiest toilet I’ve ever seen.
wow that’s awesome, never even clocked it going along the motorway
My partner did her driving test on this road. No traffic lights; no roundabouts; not enough cars to do a parallel park; I think she did a bay park in an empty distillery car park and a hill-start on the single steep road in Bowmore.
It was a Thursday in January 2019
The place that didn’t have a toilet is in Barton on hyg’s map. An unpleasant commute.
I say this with complete earnestness. This is my favourite thread of the year so far.
I like the bit where she repeats ‘surely that ain’t right’ again before the little instrumental bit.
Ah, the classic half-cloverleaf-oh-wait-its-a-wang, a staple of good urban planning worldwide
This is of course not a pure half cloverleaf, but it is allllll wang
(the longest straight bit is about 25 miles - but it’s pretty straight, right across the tip of America’s wang)
Cycled along this road out of Bordeaux once. My god it was boring and went on forever. It did end up at the Dune du Pilat though, which was pretty cool