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Grantham southern link road

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Just remembered that I saw an item last week, on whatever today's equivalent of Ceefax is called, about a proposed link road at Grantham being approved. It was said it would connect the A1 to the eastward A52.

Report and video here (the video includes a map):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-li ... e-25023270
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It's being sold as an A52 southern bypass but the reality is that it's a housing/commercial development first with the road as a sweetener to get through planning.
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It would still be a good thing, even if it's S2 with a bunch of roundabouts.
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Grantham southern bypass - the sooner the better, queued thru' south Grantham a few years ago. It might even help long distance drivers during the fairly frequent A1 closures (roadworks) between Grantham & Stamford. The current diversion goes via Melton Mowbray & adds 40 minutes to a journey.
It's surprising in 2013 that there are still a few towns (rather than villages)that still await full or partial bypassing that. I find a few on my Plan B routes ie when Motorways or duals are closed.
Grantham, Royston A10,Studley A435 (M5 bypass from M42), then there's Whitehaven & Boston, Market Rasen, even Knutsford & Macc (east to west) and once the so called Dunstable bypass is built (more the penultimate link in the Oxford-Cambridge trunk road) we can add Aylesbury to the list.
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One small step for the Grantham southern link road (surely needs an acronym using lots of RRR's)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-li ... e-33817470
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85CF380 wrote:It's surprising that there are still a few towns (rather than villages)that still await full or partial bypassing that.
You can add at least one city - Lincoln - to that list: no way to A15 or A607 south without going through the city centre.

Of course, the Romans had the foresight to build an eastern bypass for Grantham over 1,000 years before the town existed.
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Nottingham still doesn't really have a ring road which isn't G-shaped...
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Construction on part of the Grantham road started in September:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-li ... e-34243348

The only decent map I can find is in this link, from which it appears that the section started includes a junction with the A1:

http://www.granthamjournal.co.uk/news/l ... -1-7015258
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wrinkly wrote:The only decent map I can find is in this link, from which it appears that the section started includes a junction with the A1:

http://www.granthamjournal.co.uk/news/l ... -1-7015258
It looks like a full GSJ, not a "compact" design, which is good - complete with roundabout on the west side for future new development. That explains why it has south-facing slips even though they're duplicated just to the south.

The A1 there is on a steep hill, and the acceleration/deceleration lanes are indeed longer than usual facing uphill, on the north side of the junction. HGVs in particular are going to need all the help they can get in joining the A1 northbound.
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So what does this mean for the existing slips at the A1/B1174?
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Well it's good news that they're doing something, even though it is hardly the full scale bypass you would really need. I always avoid the town centre (by cutting across to or from the A607 and going through that narrow tunnel thing under the ECML) not just to avoid congestion but also because I find the road layout so confusing!

Let's see if I've got this right - once it's built westbound A52 traffic will still have to go the the traffic lights at the x-roads near the McDonalds, which will do nothing to alleviate queuing towards this junction. Presumably after this through traffic has to turn left onto the B1174 to get to the new roundabout. Will the B1174 cope with the extra traffic?
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I have to deal with Grantham regularly on travels from my home on the Wirral to my Mum's in Swaffham, Norfolk, and the A607 route is far superior to staying on the A52.

Travelling eastbound, I note that Whalebone Lane has a LILO on the A1 s/b that connects to the A52 east of Grantham and appears to be a complete bypass, albeit a fairly narrow road (but presumably quiet). GSV suggests there are no access issues along this road. Can anybody confirm this please?
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Here are some photos from today:

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King_31_Distribution_Park_Roundabout
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Return to Grantham sign
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Looking west
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ADS for A1
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Approaching A1
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View back to King 31 roundabout
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Balancing Pond
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King 31 Roundabout
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Nice internally illuminated sign
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B1174 roundabout
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B1174 realignment
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Nice pictures.

Just out of interest, what is a balancing pond?
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Comstock wrote:Nice pictures.

Just out of interest, what is a balancing pond?

Thanks :)

It is an artificial pond where water run-off is stored to avoid overwhelming local watercourses. I've just added a wiki page to that effect: http://www.sabre-roads.org.uk/wiki/inde ... ncing_Pond
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From the SABRE Wiki: Balancing Pond :

A balancing pond (also known as a balancing lakes, attenuation or retention ponds) is an artificial basin into which water drains from, for example a road or housing project, constructed to hold water to ensure that local watercourses are not overloaded during heavy rainfall collected by paved surfaces and drained off down specific

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