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I'd classify that as a natural traffic island, for sheep or something.
More likely a road builder in the 1930's going around a large boulder than trying to cut through it. They werent exactly over provided with mechanical equipment. You can see similar examples on the tracks to the Bilsdale Transmitter Mast in North Yorkshire which were originally built to get to old stone quarries. Just here they simply went past one on 3 sides. You can see the different colours of the rock outcrops compared with the green peat coverage.
I'd classify that as a natural traffic island, for sheep or something.
More likely a road builder in the 1930's going around a large boulder than trying to cut through it. They werent exactly over provided with mechanical equipment. You can see similar examples on the tracks to the Bilsdale Transmitter Mast in North Yorkshire which were originally built to get to old stone quarries. Just here they simply went past one on 3 sides. You can see the different colours of the rock outcrops compared with the green peat coverage.
That's more a triangle junction; at least with the Coll one it's a D1 that like other Dn roads remerges to Sn.
The reason for the triangle could be as much to do with getting larger vehicles the right angle of approach as getting roun that big grey lump in the middle
Looks like a D2, with parking bays, but dare use the inside when there are no parked vehicles, and you'll soon find yourself heading for a crudely dumped build-out.
For the unfamiliar, the inside lane is not a vehicle lane, but parking bays and a cycle lane. If so, then why can't it be marked as such using a solid line or something distinctive to make clear the running lane and the spaces dedicated to these other functions.
As an aside the parking bays look like an excuse to throttle the road capacity, as every house has a huge driveway, and hardly any cyclists make use of this grand facility. The door zone no doubt is a put off.
Poorly marked, badly executed. Who "designs" these schemes? I suppose there was money in some sort of "sustainability" pot begging to be spent?
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.03784 ... 6656?hl=en
Short section of D1. Just a few hundred meters away from that motorist in a Tesla that ran over 7 people yesterday.
It is a private road, however it is a public bridleway & access to a publicly accessible public.
jervi wrote: ↑Sun Sep 22, 2019 22:38
Had a thought just now, was gonna start a new thread but this thread's name already suits it.
Are there any examples (preferably in the UK) of a dual carriageway, which has a permanent contraflow lane on one of the carriageways? In other words, carriageway A has two lanes northbound, and carriageway B has 1 lane southbound and 1 lane northbound. Or similar.
A52 Clifton Boulevard in Nottingham...
Over Clifton Bridge, albeit not at the moment with the work on the Eastern bridge still ongoing.
C, E flat and G go into a bar. The barman says "sorry, we don't serve minors". So E flat walks off, leaving C and G to share an open fifth between them.
Never argue with an idiot. They will bring you down to their level and beat you with experience.
It's essentially a copy of what you see all over the Continent, and is a device to slow traffic down on approach to a village. We prefer to use road humps, but I never saw any in Germany.
This one in Kings Lynn is a bit odd in comparison as it would seem designed to slow down traffic in both directions. What is more common there is a half moon version of what you see in Kings Lynn.
It's essentially a copy of what you see all over the Continent, and is a device to slow traffic down on approach to a village. We prefer to use road humps, but I never saw any in Germany.
This one in Kings Lynn is a bit odd in comparison as it would seem designed to slow down traffic in both directions. What is more common there is a half moon version of what you see in Kings Lynn.
It's essentially a copy of what you see all over the Continent, and is a device to slow traffic down on approach to a village. We prefer to use road humps, but I never saw any in Germany.
This one in Kings Lynn is a bit odd in comparison as it would seem designed to slow down traffic in both directions. What is more common there is a half moon version of what you see in Kings Lynn.
Thanks for finding this one. Of course installing these things costs a lot more than just putting in road humps. I'm not sure if road humps are even legal in Germany, certainly I prefer the chicanes over humps.
It's essentially a copy of what you see all over the Continent, and is a device to slow traffic down on approach to a village. We prefer to use road humps, but I never saw any in Germany.
This one in Kings Lynn is a bit odd in comparison as it would seem designed to slow down traffic in both directions. What is more common there is a half moon version of what you see in Kings Lynn.
And the Isle of Sheppey in Kent too - https://goo.gl/maps/oWEeFhbVTjvLBtP8A. New build local connector road so probably fairly easy to install from new than to retrofit.
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Nigeria uses (or at least did when I was there in 2005) a half moon either side to slow the traffic on an approach to a level crossing in open country. The ones I saw had no gates or any means of showing a train was coming, so I'm hoping the lines weren't currently in use.
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fras wrote: ↑Tue Aug 17, 2021 21:53
It's essentially a copy of what you see all over the Continent, and is a device to slow traffic down on approach to a village. We prefer to use road humps, but I never saw any in Germany.
This one in Kings Lynn is a bit odd in comparison as it would seem designed to slow down traffic in both directions. What is more common there is a half moon version of what you see in Kings Lynn.
And the Isle of Sheppey in Kent too - https://goo.gl/maps/oWEeFhbVTjvLBtP8A. New build local connector road so probably fairly easy to install from new than to retrofit.
The road was dualled by adding the southbound carriageway and keeping the existing road as the northbound carriageway. It used to be marked as two lanes for much more of the distance. I have always assumed the reason for all the empty space between the two carriageways is because there was a plan to rebuild the northbound carriageway, which never happened, but don't know for sure
It's usual when dualling a rural road to build the new carriageway to modern alignment standards. That may create a wide space in places where the old carriageway is wiggly. There does not necessarily have to be a specific plan for later realignment of the wiggly carriageway, though there are places where that has been done, e.g. on the A1.
Sometimes the new build carriageway switches sides relative to the original road, so after dualling the wiggles switch sides. The A376 seems to be an example.
We've mentioned Ulster Avenue in Ipswich here before, which bizarrely was treated as two parallel two way roads until the late eighties when the council suddenly realised that,with three schools in the close vicinity and a shopping parade, this was asking for trouble, and so several signs and a spot of road marking later, it became an actual dual carriageway.
But there is another one in the town which was never changed: Moffat Avenue. You'll note no signs or anything advising which is the correct side. And so you do get some coming down the "wrong" side which is a bit alarming. And then to compound matters, you have this halfway along where it turns into a square, with Ross Road going off to the left, and Fife Road to the right. Moffat Avenue continues on the other side. What are you supposed to do here? Treat it as a roundabout? That silver car parked on the pavement on the right hand side - if he came from where the picture is taken, did he go all the way round, or did he just turn right at that first gap immediately in front of us. There have been accidents here over the years, but I guess the vital difference between this and Ulster Avenue is that this isn't on a bus route.