Is the A64 the worst road ever?
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I hate this road, it does my head in good and proper! People just hanging out in L2 in the hope that one day they might over take something. Overtaking maneuvers by trucks that last days. People that see a car many many miles ahead of them and decide that they might as well pull out into L2 NOW (Mirror signal maneuver is certainly not required on the A64) and prepare for the overtake that will happen a week next Monday if the prevailing wind conditions are favorable. And then to top it all, someone crossing the road by Bilbourgh top as walking over the bridge is REALLY just a bridge to far for this imbecile.
Why god? Why? Why must I travel on this road with these plebs? Is it some kind of cruel joke? I could of course take a massive detour and not use the A64 but if that's the alternative I'd rather slit my wrists than be stuck behind Mavis and her unwillingness to overtake the fat cyclists and that old farmer chap who trundles around on the slowest tractor known to mankind. Why can't I just win the Euromillions and buy me a helicopter?
Why god? Why? Why must I travel on this road with these plebs? Is it some kind of cruel joke? I could of course take a massive detour and not use the A64 but if that's the alternative I'd rather slit my wrists than be stuck behind Mavis and her unwillingness to overtake the fat cyclists and that old farmer chap who trundles around on the slowest tractor known to mankind. Why can't I just win the Euromillions and buy me a helicopter?
Agreed.
I used to communte to Leeds everyday from York and hated the return leg. Friday afternoons in summer where always the worst. Now I commute to Malton and its not so bad, mainly as there's one or two other ways of doing it that avoid the A64.
The road badly needs investment. It should be 3 lanes from Comanthorpe to the M1, and DC all the way till Malton at the least.
I used to communte to Leeds everyday from York and hated the return leg. Friday afternoons in summer where always the worst. Now I commute to Malton and its not so bad, mainly as there's one or two other ways of doing it that avoid the A64.
The road badly needs investment. It should be 3 lanes from Comanthorpe to the M1, and DC all the way till Malton at the least.
I used to on there before 7 every morning & it was almost bearable, the 38mph McCains artics were a pain, but they gave me a chance to spot the driver following me texting with the phone or ipad on their lap..
Interesting that if you ended up behind a Dutch or Latvian trucker they were on 60 all the way!
I don`t know how this dualling bid is going : http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/10929688.__50m_bid... but it`ll be 2030 or so before it`s finished.
If it makes you feel any better, spend a weekend on the A14 - it`s even worse and a lot more dangerous.
PS watch out for the camera vans at the bottom of Whitwell - they`re sometimes parked in the central reservation angled a bit making them much less obvious.
Interesting that if you ended up behind a Dutch or Latvian trucker they were on 60 all the way!
I don`t know how this dualling bid is going : http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/10929688.__50m_bid... but it`ll be 2030 or so before it`s finished.
If it makes you feel any better, spend a weekend on the A14 - it`s even worse and a lot more dangerous.
PS watch out for the camera vans at the bottom of Whitwell - they`re sometimes parked in the central reservation angled a bit making them much less obvious.
I've used this road from Tadcaster into York every day for the last 10 years and have noted the huge increase in the volume of traffic, certainly in the last three years.
Anytime from 7.15am to 8.30am it's now like joining a scaletric track with all the cars mysteriously bound together by 20 feet of elastic band, all doing 65mph. God knows what would happen if a car had a blow out or had to swerve to avoid something in the road.
The problem is leaving a decent space between you and the car in front, all that happens is that the inside lane drivers swerve across to fill it, with minimal warning / signalling. This of course leads to the domino effect, slowing the traffic down even further.
Then of course there is the farmer moving his crop , chugging away in the inside lane at 35, warning lights ablaze and frightening everyone into the outside lane a half a mile back so they don't get caught behind it. Then along comes an fully loaded artic doing 45 who takes forever to get past it, slowing the traffic down even more!!
And let's not forget the scamera van by the Agraah restaurant on the west bound side, a sea of tail lights illuminating the fact that they are only doing 60 but scared of being caught!
I don't know what the reason for the growth in traffic volumes recently is, and I don't know what the answer is either. I've tried earlier, say 7am, but it's not much better, and given my concerns about the tailgating in the outside lane, I now grit my teeth and stick on the inside until my turning. I know this probably adds five minutes to my run into work, but I can relax a little!
Anytime from 7.15am to 8.30am it's now like joining a scaletric track with all the cars mysteriously bound together by 20 feet of elastic band, all doing 65mph. God knows what would happen if a car had a blow out or had to swerve to avoid something in the road.
The problem is leaving a decent space between you and the car in front, all that happens is that the inside lane drivers swerve across to fill it, with minimal warning / signalling. This of course leads to the domino effect, slowing the traffic down even further.
Then of course there is the farmer moving his crop , chugging away in the inside lane at 35, warning lights ablaze and frightening everyone into the outside lane a half a mile back so they don't get caught behind it. Then along comes an fully loaded artic doing 45 who takes forever to get past it, slowing the traffic down even more!!
And let's not forget the scamera van by the Agraah restaurant on the west bound side, a sea of tail lights illuminating the fact that they are only doing 60 but scared of being caught!
I don't know what the reason for the growth in traffic volumes recently is, and I don't know what the answer is either. I've tried earlier, say 7am, but it's not much better, and given my concerns about the tailgating in the outside lane, I now grit my teeth and stick on the inside until my turning. I know this probably adds five minutes to my run into work, but I can relax a little!
It's not too bad compared to say the M62 or M25. I commute York (Stockton on Forest) to Leeds daily and the number of road closing incidents are far less than some other routes.
Home bound is always worse though. It's slow most days from before Tad right up to A19 then gets better. Sunny weekends and school holidays the Hopgrove bit can be a mare, even after how ever many million investment they spent making it 'better' (like f
k!!).
Oh and far too many slow moving farm vehicles...
But it could be much worse
Home bound is always worse though. It's slow most days from before Tad right up to A19 then gets better. Sunny weekends and school holidays the Hopgrove bit can be a mare, even after how ever many million investment they spent making it 'better' (like f
k!!).Oh and far too many slow moving farm vehicles...
But it could be much worse
I used to commute from Scarborough to Malton, all was well, I was against the flow of traffic, Saturday mornings when everyone was heading to the coast I was heading inland, Saturday evening I was coming home as they all went back towards York.
Now living in York I am in amongst the worst of the traffic, a journey from our showroom to the middle of York has been taking 50 minutes instead of the 24 it usually takes.
Now living in York I am in amongst the worst of the traffic, a journey from our showroom to the middle of York has been taking 50 minutes instead of the 24 it usually takes.
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