HVS wrote:

There are some stretches of the M25 -- through Surrey and Kent (I
think) -- that are still concrete slabs with expansion joints; I
absolutely hate driving on them because of the noise.

Sections of the A46 between nottingham and leicester used to be like
that, kthunk-kthunk kthunk-kthunk, later they re-did the joints and
"grooved" the concrete and it's perfectly fine

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