A64 Dual Carriageway Petiton - Please Sign

[markmullen]

Please can everyone sign this petition to get the A64 made into a dual carriageway from York to Scarborough.

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/A64duallin


It would make the journey to York a lot easier (and a lot faster )

Thanks.

[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