B9142
B9142 | ||||
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From: | Collie Road (NJ689636) | |||
To: | Banff Bridge (NJ693637) | |||
Via: | Low Street, Bridge Road | |||
Distance: | 0.7 miles (1.1 km) | |||
Met: | A98, A98 | |||
Former Number(s): | A98 | |||
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Route
The B9142 was a loop off the A98 winding its short way through some of the oldest streets of the royal burgh of Banff. It started by heading north up Low Street from the A98, and its middle section was then divided between the parallel Bridge and Carmelite Streets, the former very narrow (and one-way from west to east). Carmelite Street also has a narrow pinch point, but remains two-way, and so maintains priority at either end of the split. The route then wound round to follow Bridge Road alongside the river mouth and down to Banff Bridge back on the A98. Whilst it passed the town's two supermarkets, the route is largely just back streets today.
History
Prior to the opening of the half-hearted A98 Banff Bypass in the early 1960s, the A98 itself followed most of the route of the former B9142, along Low Street, Bridge Street and Bridge Road. However, when the A98 was moved south onto the new road, the B9142 took over the old route, whilst retaining its own old route along Carmelite Street and through to the Old Market Place. That route had not been numbered in 1922, but seems to have been given the B9142 number in the 1930s. For many years the route was unsigned, and therefore completely invisible on the ground, before being completely downgraded in a review by Aberdeenshire Council in 2017.