Grantham southern link road
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Grantham southern link road
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 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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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-li ... e-33817470
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You can add at least one city - Lincoln - to that list: no way to A15 or A607 south without going through the city centre.85CF380 wrote:It's surprising that there are still a few towns (rather than villages)that still await full or partial bypassing that.
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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Never argue with an idiot. They will bring you down to their level and beat you with experience.
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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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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.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
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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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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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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Return to Grantham sign
Looking west
ADS for A1
Approaching A1
View back to King 31 roundabout
Balancing Pond
King 31 Roundabout
Nice internally illuminated sign
B1174 roundabout
B1174 realignment
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Comstock wrote:Nice pictures.
Just out of interest, what is a balancing pond?
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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