Xtra road spending
Discussion
What they need is compulsory land purchases and build proper new roads. They'd get built a lot faster and to much higher specifications.
Personally I'd prefer to see by-pass roads finished up more.
Everywhere around Leeds/Harrogate/Guisely kinda areas the main roads are fine, it's when you hit the towns/villages that it's just gridlock.
Ie, A1 > Collingham (needs by-pass), Harewood (by-pass), Pool (by-pass), Otley (finish by-pass), Burley (bypassed already, great), Ilkley (finish by-pass), Addingham (bypass already, great!)
The run from A1 > Skipton could take 35mins but instead it can take hours at a weekend in summer, all spent sat crawling at slow speeds on main roads due to silly speed limits as the roads have been built around, or waiting at junctions in small towns/villages that are over-burdened for modern traffic flows.
Though why the speed limit for that super wide smooth road from Ilkley to Addingham by-pass is a 40mph zone now is beyond me.
They also need to ban building housing development road infrastructure into existing main road networks randomly. Have feeder routes and keep the speeds/capacity handling of the primary routes preserved.
Really it's all just common sense and forward thinking. But since we can't do that in the UK any more any spending on roads will probably be more for vote winning or other more questionable motivations than actually making the UK road infrastructure better for our children and grandchildren.
Dave
Personally I'd prefer to see by-pass roads finished up more.
Everywhere around Leeds/Harrogate/Guisely kinda areas the main roads are fine, it's when you hit the towns/villages that it's just gridlock.
Ie, A1 > Collingham (needs by-pass), Harewood (by-pass), Pool (by-pass), Otley (finish by-pass), Burley (bypassed already, great), Ilkley (finish by-pass), Addingham (bypass already, great!)
The run from A1 > Skipton could take 35mins but instead it can take hours at a weekend in summer, all spent sat crawling at slow speeds on main roads due to silly speed limits as the roads have been built around, or waiting at junctions in small towns/villages that are over-burdened for modern traffic flows.
Though why the speed limit for that super wide smooth road from Ilkley to Addingham by-pass is a 40mph zone now is beyond me.
They also need to ban building housing development road infrastructure into existing main road networks randomly. Have feeder routes and keep the speeds/capacity handling of the primary routes preserved.
Really it's all just common sense and forward thinking. But since we can't do that in the UK any more any spending on roads will probably be more for vote winning or other more questionable motivations than actually making the UK road infrastructure better for our children and grandchildren.
Dave
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