1.8 miles of new road £38million 40mph limit

[saaby93]

If the article is to be believed
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-he...

A new link road £20 million per mile and it opens with a 40mph limit?
What sort of new link road is that?

It has cycle lanes too

[GroundEffect]

Don't footpaths make it automatically 40mph? Forget the regs...

[anonymous-user]

"Work began on the 2.9km (1.8 miles) long link road in 2015."

and it opens in June 2017

does that seem like a long time?

[essayer]

It's all part of the A5-M1 link which involves adding an additional junction to the M1

[saaby93]

Found a fly through here
Its to try to take traffic away from the A5 in Dunstable ( which will be detrunked) and onto the M1 ( if the M1 didnt have enough traffic already)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2Yg-rgqzlU

[Dixy]

Not the only incompetent guberment road project

http://www.somersetcountygazette.co.uk/news/147950...

Still not open, the overspend is confidential but rumored to be £12m.

[0000]

I'm starting to wonder if the idea is to get everyone in an SUV, down to speeds barely any quicker than sprinting and then save some cash when there's no need to bother laying tarmac anymore.

[Matt p]

The road cannot be finished soon enough. I live in the middle of Dunstable and it's been pretty grim traffic wise ever since I was man kid. As soon as the weight limit is in place it'll stop all the wky Sherwood waste trucks clogging up the town centre. Granted I don't think the bypass will fully alleviate the traffic problems but it's a start. A council notice dropped through in the post as its stating that weight restrictions will be on Luton road from the M1, A5 Dunstable town centre and Poynters road which was completely rebuilt. All the freight now will have to come off at 11a and use the Woodside link road.

Ideally the entire town needed bypassing from the north of the town by the chalk cutting to J9 on the A5 but that would never happen due to the downs/lentil munchers and tree huggers.

[gazapc]

A38 to A370 south Bristol link road. 3 miles = £45 million to build.

Speed limit along the wide open sections is 40 mph. Bleeding ridiculous.

[wc98]

incompetence plus nepotism/cronyism is not a good recipe for an efficient cost effective road network.

[saaby93]

Theyre trying to take it north of Luton too

http://www.luton.gov.uk/Transport_and_streets/List...

Effectively it's trying to get the A505 out of town - even though the reason the towns developed was probably due to the A505
Page 3 Grey black routes?

[bristolracer]

gazapc said:

A38 to A370 south Bristol link road. 3 miles = £45 million to build.

Speed limit along the wide open sections is 40 mph. Bleeding ridiculous.

It gives you more time before the next congested junction.