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I couldn't find a relevant thread for this without dredging one up from 16 years ago which wasn't 100% relevant!
This is one of my favourite little stretches of dual carriageway. It's about midway along the B8072 at the north of the Isle of Coll. It's so short that you can see the back of the opposing keep-left sign, just to the right of the facing one.
Surely there aren't any more remote examples of a dual carriageway?
There was one on the A92 around Inverbervie, basically it was long enough that you can see then end before it started and was only useful for overtaking 1 vehicle.
TS wrote: ↑Wed Oct 03, 2018 12:16
I couldn't find a relevant thread for this without dredging one up from 16 years ago which wasn't 100% relevant!
This is one of my favourite little stretches of dual carriageway. It's about midway along the B8072 at the north of the Isle of Coll. It's so short that you can see the back of the opposing keep-left sign, just to the right of the facing one.
Surely there aren't any more remote examples of a dual carriageway?
B8072 dual.jpg
TS wrote: ↑Wed Oct 03, 2018 12:16
This is one of my favourite little stretches of dual carriageway. It's about midway along the B8072 at the north of the Isle of Coll. It's so short that you can see the back of the opposing keep-left sign, just to the right of the facing one.
Very impressive! It's on Street View here (shockingly, the Google car hasn't driven both sides of the road ). Good luck getting up to 70mph there!
Duncan macknight wrote: ↑Wed Oct 03, 2018 12:22
There was one on the A92 around Inverbervie, basically it was long enough that you can see then end before it started and was only useful for overtaking 1 vehicle.
Is that this one? You don't have to go very far forwards before the arrows start sending you back into lane 1. It can be handy for a quick overtake though.
TS wrote: ↑Wed Oct 03, 2018 12:16
I couldn't find a relevant thread for this without dredging one up from 16 years ago which wasn't 100% relevant!
This is one of my favourite little stretches of dual carriageway. It's about midway along the B8072 at the north of the Isle of Coll. It's so short that you can see the back of the opposing keep-left sign, just to the right of the facing one.
Surely there aren't any more remote examples of a dual carriageway?
B8072 dual.jpg
That's great! I guess it is technically a DC, though not signed as such. In practical terms it's more an overengineered passing place.
I remember a thread which was discussing how long a dual carriage way needed to be to justify a 70 mph speed limit, as apposed to it being a single carriageway with a safety refuge ( normally to allow traffic turning right ). A602 Stevenage Yes I know this is a 40 mph so it remains 40 but it shows what I mean
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I like this one. It's one of those little pieces of what must have been S1, but was upgraded to D1 by online dualling. Hopelessly over-engineered, for the sake of probably preserving some nice trees.
From the other side of the world. A short section of divided road on a minor road just inland from Queensland's Gold Coast: https://goo.gl/maps/g1jFS7uy5JU2
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JohnnyMo wrote: ↑Wed Oct 03, 2018 21:31
I remember a thread which was discussing how long a dual carriage way needed to be to justify a 70 mph speed limit, as apposed to it being a single carriageway with a safety refuge ( normally to allow traffic turning right ). A602 Stevenage Yes I know this is a 40 mph so it remains 40 but it shows what I mean
Even the 'proper' dual carriageways in Stevenage are all 40 limits nowadays. When I learnt to drive there in the '80s I would be told do speed up if I was doing 40 on many parts of them.
[url=https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.67528 ... 2!8i6656Is it or isn't it?[/url] There's signs each end forcing you to pass to the left (although streetview captured someone going 'wrongside') like a DC would be but other parts of the street are parallel single carriageway. It's a long time since water flowed down the middle.
). Good luck getting up to 70mph there!
