Having spent a good amount of time today on the a303 and a350, the latter having some digger action to add another small section of dual carriageway, had me wondering what roads I would put forward for full dual carriageway upgrade.
So imagine you were polishing your diesel tank and a genie appeared, giving you three very specific wishes, to choose roads for an instant upgrade. Either purely on merit, or that would improve your working week.
I think I would go with A303, A27, third lane on the A34 M40 to M3.
Goverment /highways have spent a fortune on the M6 around Birmingham. Over the years made it smart motorways.
They’ve recently rearranged the junctions around 9 10 or what ever junction it is. All to improve traffic flow if anything I’d argue made it worse
They should spent the money buying the m 6 toll and even if they made it a nominal fee like £1 a trip would improve the situatiion around Birmingham overnight..
Instead of spending billions trying to sort the mess out.
Least there starting work on motraam a57 a628 bypass which is good
M11 to carry on through Lincolnshire, over the Humber Bridge (it might actually pay for itself that way) up the east coast, around the western side of Newcastle, around the western side of Edinburgh, before finally ending in Aberdeen.
Ironically I prefer to use the A30 than the constant speed limit changes and silly traffic levels on the 303 caused by traffic avoiding the M4 and M5.
The same applies to prefer A515 and 523 than the M6.Or A21 and A24 rather than M20 and M23. .
You can bet that any ‘upgrade’ of the 303 would result in blanket revenue raising speed limit reductions to pay for it and just attract even more traffic off the M4 and M5.
At best ‘overtaking’ lanes are constantly occupied by dawdling road blockers and any ‘upgrade’ would probably result in even more needless roundabouts and just get more traffic up to them even quicker.Like the roundabouts on the A1.
In today’s conditions and revenue raising speed regime and catastrophic unavoidable holdups, caused by traffic shunts or just people who want to drive at 30 mph in an NSL, old school less is usually more.
Obviously not so easy for trucks.
There is ANPR if your vehicle is pre registered (company vehicle).
If it’s not pre reg’d it gets added to the account (for when you’re in a different vehicle for the day).
