There’s a video driving through the new A14 to M6 link on the Facebook page for the project - it’s currently one lane on what will become the eastbound carriageway.
Signs up around M62 J28 - 30 announcing that M1 J41-39 will be finished in Dec.
Glen A9:
There’s a video driving through the new A14 to M6 link on the Facebook page for the project - it’s currently one lane on what will become the eastbound carriageway.
Expect that to be shut by an accident in the very near future. As the A14-M6 traffic merges with the M1-M6 traffic, lorries are going to have to move left from lane 3, expect a side swipe soon. I know this is only a temporary situation, but it still a dangerous layout.
Don’t know if any one else can remember the M40-M42 north layout being the same(M40 north traffic using lane 3 to merge with the M42 north), they changed it because of several bad accidents iirc.
The underpass at Junction 15a where the A43 passes was actually the track bed of the old Northampton to Blisworth railway line although they did eventually add a second underpass alongside it after several years when traffic levels increased.
Parts of the A14 around Kettering follow old railways the stretch between Weetabix at Burton Latimer to Thrapston was a old railway part of the old LMS line though in its later life it was a freight line for the old ironstone qurreies around that part it’s amazing how many railways have been converted to roads
BIGGSAM:
The underpass at Junction 15a where the A43 passes was actually the track bed of the old Northampton to Blisworth railway line although they did eventually add a second underpass alongside it after several years when traffic levels increased.
Parts of the A14 around Kettering follow old railways the stretch between Weetabix at Burton Latimer to Thrapston was a old railway part of the old LMS line though in its later life it was a freight line for the old ironstone qurreies around that part it’s amazing how many railways have been converted to roads
And its amazing how many people think that the old railway lines can reinstated to get all the truck off the roads, though in a round about way the freight is on the rails, only the rails have been replaced by tarmac 