A64 Dual Carriageway Petiton - Please Sign

[gemini]

Cos its not in the south the Govt make it financially a non starter with local Govt! Funding and all that innit

[The_Doc]

Did the Leeds-Scarborough trip 350plus times last year (24k miles)

Don't bother dualling it now, I've done my slog......
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Not really, I've signed.

[adove]

Mr Whippy said:

Signed.

What an arse of a road.

Mind you, drove from Whitby to Leeds a few weeks ago at about 9pm, what a drive... not much traffic at all, and what was there was easily passable.

Think I made the journey in under one and a half hours!

DC all the way would make the coast "not that far away" as time goes, but as it is now, it's like a day trip kind of place from Leeds!

Dave

Well Scarborough SHOULD be a day trip kind of place from Leeds, why else would it exist?

West yorks - Whitby - West yorks is a drive I do every other week. Theres only a few annoying bits of single carriageway between York & Malton, and easily negotiated if you do it at the right time. I'm often heading towards Leeds at about 11am on Saturday and have a laugh at all the lemmings queuing up in the other direction, where I flew through an hour or so earlier. But I reckon the baddest bit of the 64 is after malton where there is a succession of villages en route to Scarbro. I wouldn't fancy trying to plan dual carriageway through that lot - you must be talking the kind of money you could organise a two week sports contest in London in 2012 for
HOWEVER... if you like driving, study your satnav (or trusty analogue recycleable paper version like wot I have) and check out some nice routes using places like (hinthint) Stamford bridge and Thornton Dale. avoid the A64 queues, get to Scarbro in about the same time, and ENJOY the journey.
Oh yeah.. 'ahem' 1hr 13 mins from M62j26 to centre of Whitby is do-able, so I have heard.

[markmullen]

adove said:

HOWEVER... if you like driving, study your satnav (or trusty analogue recycleable paper version like wot I have) and check out some nice routes using places like (hinthint) Stamford bridge and Thornton Dale. avoid the A64 queues, get to Scarbro in about the same time, and ENJOY the journey.

The trouble is that the Stamford Bridge > Sledmere > Staxton route whilst being great fun for driving isn't ideal for commuting. I do Scarborough to York every day for work (well normally ) and the A64 is the only practical way to do it. Most of the time I am against the flow so on a Saturday morning as everyone is queueing to Scarborough I am heading to York and vice versa. Friday evenings in summer months are grim though, an hour and a half to two hours is the norm if you leave York at 6 or 7.

The worst sections for traffic are the two bottlenecks where dual carriageway becomes single, at Malton and Flaxton. In summer every Saturday and Sunday evening these tail back, from the bottom of Golden Hill to the Pickering exit and from Flaxton towards Whitwell. Dualling the whole road through to the Hopgrove would alleviate a lot of these delays.

adove said:

Oh yeah.. 'ahem' 1hr 13 mins from M62j26 to centre of Whitby is do-able, so I have heard.

I understand Blackpool to Scarborough in an hour and 45 is do-able too whilst using private roads of course

[Mr Whippy]

adove said:

Well Scarborough SHOULD be a day trip kind of place from Leeds, why else would it exist?

I mean going there feels like a full days activity, from dawn till dusk in summer at least.

It really isn't that far distance wise, but the roads just come to a halt in summer traffic at a weekend, it is really poor considering.

Go up to the Lakes on the other hand, what a lovely high capacity network for the most part. It really is a joy to get into the area in comparison.

Dave