'Missing' primary route destinations

[Jonny A46]

What's wrong with the A470 hairpin in the B4391? You say it's like Loews Hairpin - if Formula One cars can tackle that hairpin, then road cars can tackle the one on the A470! Anyway, it is the closest you can get to Monte Carlo in Wales!

[worcsfan]

Nothing wrong with me- everything wrong with artics!

[Jonny A46]

Could Brackley be a primary destination? It sort of acts as a compass point for Oxford, Banbury, Northampton and Milton Keynes. To be fair, it's not as much as a compass point as Crianlarich is in Scotland, but it's bigger and the A43 and A422 meet there, with the A421 a couple of miles down the road, and the M40 not far off . It would also work nicely as a destination for Silverstone, and it's home to the Brawn GP factory.

[Stevie D]

Could Brackley be a primary destination? It sort of acts as a compass point for Oxford, Banbury, Northampton and Milton Keynes. To be fair, it's not as much as a compass point as Crianlarich is in Scotland, but it's bigger and the A43 and A422 meet there, with the A421 a couple of miles down the road, and the M40 not far off . It would also work nicely as a destination for Silverstone, and it's home to the Brawn GP factory.

I would have thought that Towcester would be better - it's on a primary crossroads (and the A5 needs some more primary destinations!) rather than 3-way junction, and it's better known, with the horse racing there.

But really, I don't think it's a problem signposting the road as Oxford/Banbury and Northampton.

[Jonny A46]

Towcester certainly wouldn't be a bad idea, and neither would keeping it as it is, but the reason why I suggested Brackley as a primary destination was that it works for the A421 and A422 as well as the A43 (and of course the M40 and A34 to Oxford). From Oxford (A34/A43) and Banbury (A422) Brackley could be signed instead of Northampton (A43 N) and Milton Keynes (A421), from Northampton it could be signed instead of Banbury (A43/A422) and Oxford (A43), and from MK it could be signed instead of Banbury (A421/A422 this time) and Oxford (A421/A43).

[Gareth Thomas]

My vote would be for Faversham. It's at the meeting place of 3 major routes (M2, A2 and A299), all of which are currently signed "London".

Plus if you're using the M2 corridor, it's a long gap between London and Canterbury/Ramsgate.

Re: the Medway towns - whilst I would suuport Rochester becoming primary, perhaps the reason the area isn't is because Maidstone is just down the road? Plus no primary routes go into the area - the A228 and A229 both lose their primary status at the M2, which seems to be the "primary destination" on these roads.

Slightly OT: Is the A228 in Kent the only primary route not to feature a primary destination on signage in either direction? Near the M20, it is signed for Tonbridge and Rochester - neither of which are primary.