Gorilla,
As a youngster, years of trying to get between exotic places like Gloucester and Oakington by rail scarred me sufficiently and the privatization of the network simply made a piss-poor service unworkable. As for the roads, the A303 roundabout at Amesbury on any given Friday afternoon, the old A1 Doncaster roundabout before they "motorwayed" it; and of course the glory and majesty of the M25 between the M3 and the M4 at any time, are just some of the highlights of the UK's transport infrastructure that made my decision to move somewhere with a lot less traffic that much easier. Every time I am back in the UK on business it takes the 12 miles going from Gatwick to the M25 to remind me how much the transport system sucks. Mind you, that is somewhat balanced by the fact that every tw*t on the roads over here is a congenital idiot with a death wish.