As a lorry driver this road is a joke,they just cone it when they want with no advance warnings,alot of Forest fans are going to be peeved as its one of the routes they will be using,shame eh!
Its because its a privatised road.....one of the last acts of a corrupt Tory government.
A couple of years ago I had to get out to near Painswick, one evening, and the cunts had completely closed the road for miles just westward from Ciren..
There was no information other than a route for Cheltenham along the A345.
Not wishing to go to Cheltenham, and back around, I tried to go via lanes to get back to the 417....but everytime I got back, the stretch was still closed so had to go back and try again....at one point ended up in a fucking barn..