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Regarding the M62, its not exactly helped by the Highways Agency's new la-de-dah managed motorway guff. Dead clear motorway, traffic moving at 70/80 as per normal. All of a sudden, 50mph signs appear. Stick on for a mile or two and then clear again. No breakdowns, no crashes, no signs of anything. Just slowing the traffic down to go past a junction. I like to imagine its just someone sat bored in a control room who want to pour misery on drivers for no reason. To be fair, I'd probably do the same...
A417 between Hope under Dinmore and Gloucester. Terrifying. Around almost every corner you'd be confronted with a speeding Merc or BMW on your side of the road. Especially bad on a Friday afternoon and during some competition or other, World Cup I think, when England were playing that evening, it was real heart-in-mouth stuff. I wasn't being over-sensitive either as at least weekly there'd be a big smash and a diversion. They started leaving the burnt out cars on the verge as a reminder. And they did have unmarked police cars too. Once cycled past some big shot businessman trying to argue with one such copper in the car park of the Trumpet. It was all I could do not to stop and laugh at him - ****.
Other memorable roads include the famous Interstate 90 across South Dakota. It goes through Wall, home of the fabulous Wall Drug! (read with sarcastic tone of voice). Mostly though it's 600 miles of featureless plain. Fun once, however every road-trip somewhere interesting from my in-laws' house involves this road so I've driven it about five times, and probably will again.
Oh yeah - M62 - or almost anywhere in that region. FFS northerners do NOT know how to drive.
The Pan Am highway. In Ecuador. In a bus. Routine overtakes three abreast on blind bends, with the outer car/bus overtaking the one that was already overtaking. Often it did not end well, with the emphasis on end.
Compared to that sort of thing, UK roads are like soft play. That said, I'm regularly bemused by the sheer randomness of driving anywhere within about ten miles of the M25 perimeter. Step in time Mary Poppins...
M83- a big letdown, I loved We Own The Sky but I saw them live and they were dreary...
A14 from Cambridge to M6/M1. That bit past Kettering seems like it gets repeated about four times on one trip - it just goes on and on and on and on and on. I've not been to Kettering but that road alone puts me off going.
A12 from M25 to Colchester - no slip roads, they're junctions. And always backed up from London to Chelmsford.
M65 from Junction 3 to 6 West and eastbound on the hill sections it goes from 3 lanes to 2 at the crest. The endless idiots who bomb up in lane 3 and force their way into lane 2 at the very last minute. Drops lane 1-2 down to 10-15 mph or stopped. And s accident every day!
On the A9 it is the sometimes suicidal actions of people overtaking going in the other direction that I find most worrying. I've had a near miss and a VERY near miss, where somehow my pal managed to avoid a head on with someone overtaking at reckless speed heading the other way. When the traffic is light, it is a lovely stretch of road.
A417 between Hope under Dinmore and Gloucester. Terrifying
Glad I read that just now and not earlier tonight, as just drove its length for what I believe is my first time ever! also got momentarily lost in Gloucester down some housing estates and nearly got fronted by kid (must've been all of 14yrs) on a dirt bike with no lights.
The A8 autobahn across pretty much all of Germany because it's 83 gazillion miles long and I'm the only one not doing 180mph 2 inches from the car in front.