A610 dual carrigeway at IKEA, 40mph, why?

A610 dual carrigeway at IKEA, 40mph, why?

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Balmoral Green

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40,660 posts

247 months

Friday 22nd January 2010
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Decent straight bit of dual carriageway, central reservation and armco, well lit, good road surface. No side roads, the only junction is a proper one at IKEA with slip roads on and off.

So why the fk has it been reduced to a 40 zone? Is there a history of KSI's on it?

Quite ridiculous. Thankfully I don't go that way too often.

Daftest bit of all, is at the end at Eastwood, and you run out of dual carriageway and onto a single carriageway with twists and turns and exits and driveways etc towards Ripley, you are back up to a 60 zone for a bit, then into a 50 zone, the tts!

It's backwards world I tell thee! Low limits out on the open road, higher limits in the built up areas.

Edited by Balmoral Green on Friday 22 January 12:49

V8LM

5,166 posts

208 months

Friday 22nd January 2010
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When did it change? It was bad enough when it was 50. I see to remember that the 40 bit between the motorway and the (old) 50 zone was introduced as a consequence of someone deciding to jump off the footbridge into the path of a lorry.

patmahe

5,744 posts

203 months

Friday 22nd January 2010
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V8LM said:
When did it change? It was bad enough when it was 50. I see to remember that the 40 bit between the motorway and the (old) 50 zone was introduced as a consequence of someone deciding to jump off the footbridge into the path of a lorry.
Ah yes because if you get hit by a lorry doing 40 you'd be fine. The biggest enemy of people obeying speed limits is the posting of ridculous ones. If people could see the reason they are being asked to travel slowly they would be much more likely to do it.

simonigrale

918 posts

205 months

Friday 22nd January 2010
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Great stretch of road - especially going down hill from the M1.

There have been quite a few accidents in that road - plus suicides when people jump off the bridge confused

I had a real bking a few years back off a traffic cop for doing 10 mph over the limit in my Focus RS

He should have been there about 9 years ago when I had a little run in a 996 GT3 !!! woohoo

asn163

160 posts

209 months

Friday 22nd January 2010
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I have to agree it is ridiculous the 40 and 50 mph limits between Jcn 26 and Ikea.

Also annoying further down the A610 towards Codnor where in the old days the "Woodlinkin" bypass was a true dual carriageway and was "interesting" until they stuck the 50mph limit on it and all the white paint.

simonigrale

918 posts

205 months

Friday 22nd January 2010
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I've got a lovely bit of footage from in car in my Ferrari behind my mates F355 GTS going from B&Q towards Ikea.

We were sticking to the 50 into 40 limits of course smokin

Meeja

8,289 posts

247 months

Friday 22nd January 2010
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V8LM said:
When did it change? It was bad enough when it was 50. I see to remember that the 40 bit between the motorway and the (old) 50 zone was introduced as a consequence of someone deciding to jump off the footbridge into the path of a lorry.
IIRC it has been 40 for quite a while.

I remember going to Ikea with Mrs Meeja about a year ago, and complaining that 40 was way too low a limit for that stretch of road.

v15ben

15,780 posts

240 months

Friday 22nd January 2010
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It's been 40 for ages - a year or more. I always slow down for the 50mph section near the IKEA junction as the police do sit there taking pretty photographs to sell on at £60 each! I personally choose to ignore the 40 limits and stick to at least 50 as I've never seen any camera vans or police on that section!

Balmoral Green

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40,660 posts

247 months

Friday 22nd January 2010
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It just seems daft when you can do three or four times the posted speed limit along there, and it's such a non event that it's not even worth bragging rights.

Every now & then you read a thread over in SP&L about someone getting caught doing 90 or 100 in a 40 or a 50 and I think, well, you deserve it. But I guess this is one of those roads that makes it clear that it's not always the case.

h4muf

2,070 posts

206 months

Friday 22nd January 2010
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Back in `94 i was a (very scared) passenger in a "t"plate v12 xjs.

Eastwood island onwards,hit 160 leptons indicated untill that footbridge.

Talk about light steering smile

raceboy

13,082 posts

279 months

Friday 22nd January 2010
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asn163 said:
Also annoying further down the A610 towards Codnor where in the old days the "Woodlinkin" bypass was a true dual carriageway and was "interesting" until they stuck the 50mph limit on it and all the white paint.
The white paint just makes it more interesting when you clip the apexs and get a bit more drift than you might have been expecting.... paperbag

2 sMoKiN bArReLs

30,230 posts

234 months

Friday 22nd January 2010
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I once pulled a woman (not in that way) out of a burning car on that stretch.



Funkateer

990 posts

174 months

Saturday 23rd January 2010
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Daftest speed limit in the country. The limits' totally pointless heading away from the M1 towards Ikea - 70 is a perfectly reasonable speed, with ample visibility to be able to spot any hazards and react.

There is a limited case for a limit drop the other way due to the peak time queues, but a drop to 60 as you enter the bend after the Ikea junction (not before it) and a further drop to 50 where the 40 bit starts would have sufficed.

The council rejected differing limits on each carriageway because it was "confusing". banghead

There are plenty of dual carriageways nearby with differing limits - A453 up to the Nottingham ring road and the A50 up to J24.

A strident example of the worst sort of council numptiness and buffer-zone limits.

raceboy said:
asn163 said:
Also annoying further down the A610 towards Codnor where in the old days the "Woodlinkin" bypass was a true dual carriageway and was "interesting" until they stuck the 50mph limit on it and all the white paint.
The white paint just makes it more interesting when you clip the apexs and get a bit more drift than you might have been expecting.... paperbag
At least you can overtake on the hatchings as there's broken lines on most of them. Get the odd flash off some numpties doing 30 who don't know that you can actually use those hatched areas!

heebeegeetee

28,591 posts

247 months

Saturday 23rd January 2010
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Balmoral Green said:
Decent straight bit of dual carriageway, central reservation and armco, well lit, good road surface. No side roads, the only junction is a proper one at IKEA with slip roads on and off.

So why the fk has it been reduced to a 40 zone? Is there a history of KSI's on it?

Quite ridiculous. Thankfully I don't go that way too often.

Daftest bit of all, is at the end at Eastwood, and you run out of dual carriageway and onto a single carriageway with twists and turns and exits and driveways etc towards Ripley, you are back up to a 60 zone for a bit, then into a 50 zone, the tts!

It's backwards world I tell thee! Low limits out on the open road, higher limits in the built up areas.

Edited by Balmoral Green on Friday 22 January 12:49
You've seen some of the people in IKEA, surely? When they're emerging out onto that road with their minds on flatpack and only on flatpack... smile

Fort Jefferson

8,237 posts

221 months

Saturday 23rd January 2010
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2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:
I once pulled a woman (not in that way) out of a burning car on that stretch.
Yes, it's amazing how many cars catch fire when they do more than 40mph.

2 sMoKiN bArReLs

30,230 posts

234 months

Saturday 23rd January 2010
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Fort Jefferson said:
2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:
I once pulled a woman (not in that way) out of a burning car on that stretch.
Yes, it's amazing how many cars catch fire when they do more than 40mph.
biggrin I was just musing.

She'd fallen asleep & hit the barrier just after kamikaze bridge Nottingham bound. Actually, at 40 she probably would have slid along the armco, rather than triple loop & fireball.

dxg

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259 months

Saturday 23rd January 2010
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I remember when that limit came in - I was still in that part of the world so we must be talking 2004 - from the M1 junction out to Ikea.

When the limit first came in, I thought it would be interesting to drive at the posted limit. By means of protest, of course, after all you get what you wish for.

It was genuinely one of the scariest things I've done in a car. To have *everyone* driving +20mph to what you're going. Bear in mind, I'm driving at the posted limit and everyone else is driving at the road's natural speed. I very quickly had to give up and just go with the flow.

It was a clear case of the new, low limit making the road far *more* dangerous than it was before - because every so often you'd get someone doing what I was doing: driving at the posted limit.

Edited by dxg on Saturday 23 January 17:04

vxrandy

1,785 posts

182 months

Saturday 23rd January 2010
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V8LM said:
When did it change? It was bad enough when it was 50. I see to remember that the 40 bit between the motorway and the (old) 50 zone was introduced as a consequence of someone deciding to jump off the footbridge into the path of a lorry.
Some guy jumped off the bridge at the cemetary,and the taxi driver that stopped to offer assistance was also hit and killed by another car.

2 sMoKiN bArReLs

30,230 posts

234 months

Saturday 23rd January 2010
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vxrandy said:
V8LM said:
When did it change? It was bad enough when it was 50. I see to remember that the 40 bit between the motorway and the (old) 50 zone was introduced as a consequence of someone deciding to jump off the footbridge into the path of a lorry.
Some guy jumped off the bridge at the cemetary,and the taxi driver that stopped to offer assistance was also hit and killed by another car.
People have been jumping off that bridge since they built it. That's why they call it kamikase bridge!

Barreti

6,680 posts

236 months

Saturday 23rd January 2010
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Its obvious Warren, as you leave the M1 and head towards Ikea at a pace which now feels like a snail could overtake you, you go up a hill then down the other side where its nigh on impossible to keep to 40mph and lo and behold 1/2 mile later is a layby where the trafpol can sit in comfort and clock you speeding on a road which should by all the rules of the road be the same speed limit as the motorway you just left.

Mind you, going the other way towards Nottingham can be a bit hairy when you come around the corner past the Eastwood slip entry doing 70mph with 1/2 mile to the M1 roundabout and find a queue of traffic at a standstill eek