exiled wrote:
At the end of 2017 there were five open in the United Kingdom, four around Glasgow, so hopefully...
As of now there seem to be 13.
England
1 in Bury, 3 in Manchester and 1 in Warrington
Scotland
5 in Glasgow and 1 in Dunfermline
Wales
2 in Cardiff
It looks like more to come soon as they are recruiting in East Dunbartonshire, South Ayrshire, South Lanarkshire and Belfast.
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exiled wrote:
At the end of 2017 there were five open in the United Kingdom, four around Glasgow, so hopefully...
As of now there seem to be 13.
England
1 in Bury, 3 in Manchester and 1 in Warrington
Scotland
5 in Glasgow and 1 in Dunfermline
Wales
2 in Cardiff
It looks like more to come soon as they are recruiting in East Dunbartonshire, South Ayrshire, South Lanarkshire and Belfast.
Beware the Canadians are coming
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They're hangovers from when mini roundabout signs had those as supplementary plates. In other words, the late 70s before they were brought into the TSRGD.
Someone has replaced the old ones rather than removing them by the looks of it.
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Bryn666 wrote:They're hangovers from when mini roundabout signs had those as supplementary plates. In other words, the late 70s before they were brought into the TSRGD.
Someone has replaced the old ones rather than removing them by the looks of it.
I thought these plates were normal for all Northern Irish roundabouts?
This sign has become botched by the construction of a small retail park. The first exit off the roundabout now takes you into the car park for Dunelm and Argos.
https://goo.gl/maps/XabwuCvXpa92 In my opinion this is botched, listing the motorway and an industrial estate but failing to mention the low bridge at the last diversionary point.
I was trundling slowly along the M6 over the weekend and came upon this sign which I must have passed many hundreds of times. Not really botched, I guess, but definitely a bit odd. If you have reached this point I would suggest this is the turning for any part of Wolverhampton you might want to go to. But there are many parts of Walsall that would be better accessed off junction 9 or 7.
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Big L wrote:I was trundling slowly along the M6 over the weekend and came upon this sign which I must have passed many hundreds of times. Not really botched, I guess, but definitely a bit odd. If you have reached this point I would suggest this is the turning for any part of Wolverhampton you might want to go to. But there are many parts of Walsall that would be better accessed off junction 9 or 7.
The northern part of the Walsall urban area includes Bloxwich, Pelsall, Brownhills and Rushall, and it could be argued that these areas are best accessed from junctions 11 or 12 on the southbound M6.
Big L wrote:I was trundling slowly along the M6 over the weekend and came upon this sign which I must have passed many hundreds of times. Not really botched, I guess, but definitely a bit odd. If you have reached this point I would suggest this is the turning for any part of Wolverhampton you might want to go to. But there are many parts of Walsall that would be better accessed off junction 9 or 7.
Well, maybe so, however Walsall town centre is the effective primary destination and is barely a mile and a half from junction 10 so for simplicity's sake, the strategy from the north for Walsall at least is pretty sensible.
To be honest, I don't really know why compass points have been added to the "Wolverhampton" destination at 10 given that Wolverhampton (without compass points) is also signed southbound at junctions 12 and 11 as well as M54 junction 2.
Personally I would have thought Dudley would have been as equally valid an exit destination as Wolverhampton, especially given how arduous the A454 can be in accessing Wolvo city centre.
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Bfivethousand wrote:To be honest, I don't really know why compass points have been added to the "Wolverhampton" destination at 10 given that Wolverhampton (without compass points) is also signed southbound at junctions 12 and 11 as well as M54 junction 2.
I'd hazard a guess that the compass points make perfect sense on the northbound sign for the same junction, and they were copied across to the southbound signs without much thought being given.
Bfivethousand wrote:
To be honest, I don't really know why compass points have been added to the "Wolverhampton" destination at 10 given that Wolverhampton (without compass points) is also signed southbound at junctions 12 and 11 as well as M54 junction 2.
Personally I would have thought Dudley would have been as equally valid an exit destination as Wolverhampton, especially given how arduous the A454 can be in accessing Wolvo city centre.
The absence of Dudley as an exit destination at Junction 10 is probably the legacy of the period before the Black Country Route and the Black Country Spine Roads were built. Until then, southbound traffic would have left the M6 at Junction 9 and used the A461 through Wednesbury (slow, but more direct) or continued onto the M5 and left at Junction 2. Obviously, the Black Country Route and the Black Country Spine Road have made Dudley, Coseley, Bilston and Darlaston much more accessible from the M6 than before so Dudley, as the primary destination nearest to the terminus of the Black Country Route, should be signed from the M6.
