Yes, the traffic queues through town would stretch for miles on a holiday weekend. Lots of over heated cars needing water for radiators when I worked pumping petrol up at Bere Regis Motors just past the RAB.

and now the traffic queues stretch for miles through the town and round the bypass. Plus ca change. Not so many radiators needing water these days, but I suspect more accidents, as drivers see a tiny stretch of open road and put pedal to metal.