Tory MP - rename A1 as the Queen's Highway

The study of British and Irish roads - their construction, numbering, history, mapping, past and future official roads proposals and general roads musings.

There is a separate forum for Street Furniture (traffic lights, street lights, road signs etc).

Registered users get access to other forums including discussions about other forms of transport, driving, fantasy roads and wishlists, and roads quizzes.

Moderator: Site Management Team

User avatar
roadtester
Member
Posts: 31476
Joined: Mon Mar 26, 2007 18:05
Location: Cambridgeshire

Tory MP - rename A1 as the Queen's Highway

Post by roadtester »

A sycophantic, publicity-seeking Tory MP wants to rename the A1 as the Queen's Highway as part of the celebrations for her platinum jubilee.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/edwa ... 32388.html

To be fair, he is linking the change to the need to complete the various upgrades that need doing.
Electrophorus Electricus

Check out #davidsdailycar on Mastodon
User avatar
Ruperts Trooper
Member
Posts: 12031
Joined: Sun Jun 17, 2012 13:43
Location: Huntingdonshire originally, but now Staffordshire

Re: Tory MP - rename A1 as the Queen's Highway

Post by Ruperts Trooper »

roadtester wrote: Fri Apr 30, 2021 08:40 A sycophantic, publicity-seeking Tory MP wants to rename the A1 as the Queen's Highway as part of the celebrations for her platinum jubilee.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/edwa ... 32388.html

To be fair, he is linking the change to the need to complete the various upgrades that need doing.
The Oxford Dictionary defines the "Queen's Highway" as the public road network - so that MP needs to catch up.
Lifelong motorhead
User avatar
roadtester
Member
Posts: 31476
Joined: Mon Mar 26, 2007 18:05
Location: Cambridgeshire

Re: Tory MP - rename A1 as the Queen's Highway

Post by roadtester »

Ruperts Trooper wrote: Fri Apr 30, 2021 08:43
roadtester wrote: Fri Apr 30, 2021 08:40 A sycophantic, publicity-seeking Tory MP wants to rename the A1 as the Queen's Highway as part of the celebrations for her platinum jubilee.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/edwa ... 32388.html

To be fair, he is linking the change to the need to complete the various upgrades that need doing.
The Oxford Dictionary defines the "Queen's Highway" as the public road network - so that MP needs to catch up.
That thought did cross my mind as well - it would be very confusing!
Electrophorus Electricus

Check out #davidsdailycar on Mastodon
User avatar
JohnnyMo
Member
Posts: 6982
Joined: Wed Jun 04, 2003 13:56
Location: Letchworth, Herts, England

Re: Tory MP - rename A1 as the Queen's Highway

Post by JohnnyMo »

The GNR or the A1 ?
“The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie" - Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
Johnny Mo
User avatar
roadtester
Member
Posts: 31476
Joined: Mon Mar 26, 2007 18:05
Location: Cambridgeshire

Re: Tory MP - rename A1 as the Queen's Highway

Post by roadtester »

JohnnyMo wrote: Fri Apr 30, 2021 09:18 The GNR or the A1 ?
That's not clear either!
Electrophorus Electricus

Check out #davidsdailycar on Mastodon
User avatar
Bryn666
Elected Committee Member
Posts: 35755
Joined: Thu Jun 20, 2002 20:54
Contact:

Re: Tory MP - rename A1 as the Queen's Highway

Post by Bryn666 »

Oh, it's Edward Leigh. Well we all know he's bonkers anyway.
Bryn
Terminally cynical, unimpressed, and nearly Middle Age already.
She said life was like a motorway; dull, grey, and long.

Blog - https://showmeasign.online/
X - https://twitter.com/ShowMeASignBryn
YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@BrynBuck
User avatar
Osthagen
Member
Posts: 3342
Joined: Sun Apr 19, 2015 15:01
Location: Mercia

Re: Tory MP - rename A1 as the Queen's Highway

Post by Osthagen »

JohnnyMo wrote: Fri Apr 30, 2021 09:18 The GNR or the A1 ?
Surely the GNR is the road that goes to Paradise City? :coat:
"I see the face of a child. He lives in a great city. He is black. Or he is white. He is Mexican, Italian, Polish. None of that matters. What matters, he's an American child"
- Richard Nixon
Bomag
Member
Posts: 948
Joined: Tue Jan 26, 2010 23:26

Re: Tory MP - rename A1 as the Queen's Highway

Post by Bomag »

JohnnyMo wrote: Fri Apr 30, 2021 09:18 The GNR or the A1 ?
I am not certain what the Great Northern Railway or Flying Scotsman (LNER Class A1) have to do with this? :laugh:
Isleworth1961
Member
Posts: 771
Joined: Thu Aug 30, 2012 14:15
Location: South Gloucestershire

Re: Tory MP - rename A1 as the Queen's Highway

Post by Isleworth1961 »

Bomag wrote: Fri Apr 30, 2021 11:49
JohnnyMo wrote: Fri Apr 30, 2021 09:18 The GNR or the A1 ?
I am not certain what the Great Northern Railway or Flying Scotsman (LNER Class A1) have to do with this? :laugh:
Scotsman's now an A3...😉
User avatar
L.J.D
Member
Posts: 441
Joined: Thu Dec 30, 2010 06:34
Location: W.Yorkshire

Re: Tory MP - rename A1 as the Queen's Highway

Post by L.J.D »

Maybe Queen Elizabeth Expressway would be better or Elizabeth Expressway and hopefully it would push for more upgrades to get it to a decent standard.
User avatar
M4 Cardiff
Member
Posts: 2401
Joined: Mon Sep 20, 2004 15:12
Location: Leamington Spa

Re: Tory MP - rename A1 as the Queen's Highway

Post by M4 Cardiff »

To be honest I was more expecting there to have been a call to name or rename something major in honour of Prince Philip, but I have not seen any reports of that yet.
Driving thrombosis caused this accident......a clot behind the wheel.
User avatar
skiddaw05
Member
Posts: 2036
Joined: Thu Nov 30, 2006 21:33
Location: Norwich

Re: Tory MP - rename A1 as the Queen's Highway

Post by skiddaw05 »

L.J.D wrote: Fri Apr 30, 2021 12:10 Maybe Queen Elizabeth Expressway would be better or Elizabeth Expressway and hopefully it would push for more upgrades to get it to a decent standard.
Renaming the A149 King's Lynn bypass Queen Elizabeth Way hasn't led to anything like that :wink:
User avatar
roadtester
Member
Posts: 31476
Joined: Mon Mar 26, 2007 18:05
Location: Cambridgeshire

Re: Tory MP - rename A1 as the Queen's Highway

Post by roadtester »

M4 Cardiff wrote: Fri Apr 30, 2021 12:31 To be honest I was more expecting there to have been a call to name or rename something major in honour of Prince Philip, but I have not seen any reports of that yet.
One suggestion was that one of the Royal Navy's still-to-be-built Type 26 frigates should be named after him - one symbolic point of significance is that one of the planned jobs of the Type 26s is to escort the UK's new aircraft carriers, so the frigate HMS Duke of Edinburgh/HMS Prince Philip would escort HMS Queen Elizabeth, rather as the D of E escorted HMQ in life.

The suggestion is slightly complicated by the fact that names have already been allocated to the entire run of eight ships and, given that they are all being named after UK cities, one of them is already due to be called HMS Edinburgh.
Electrophorus Electricus

Check out #davidsdailycar on Mastodon
User avatar
roadtester
Member
Posts: 31476
Joined: Mon Mar 26, 2007 18:05
Location: Cambridgeshire

Re: Tory MP - rename A1 as the Queen's Highway

Post by roadtester »

skiddaw05 wrote: Fri Apr 30, 2021 12:39
L.J.D wrote: Fri Apr 30, 2021 12:10 Maybe Queen Elizabeth Expressway would be better or Elizabeth Expressway and hopefully it would push for more upgrades to get it to a decent standard.
Renaming the A149 King's Lynn bypass Queen Elizabeth Way hasn't led to anything like that :wink:
I can certainly vouch for that too!
Electrophorus Electricus

Check out #davidsdailycar on Mastodon
User avatar
exiled
President
Posts: 24644
Joined: Sat Jan 27, 2007 17:36
Location: South Lanarkshire

Re: Tory MP - rename A1 as the Queen's Highway

Post by exiled »

L.J.D wrote: Fri Apr 30, 2021 12:10 Maybe Queen Elizabeth Expressway would be better or Elizabeth Expressway and hopefully it would push for more upgrades to get it to a decent standard.
Queen Elizabeth Way, and they could nick the route markers from Ontario. They could make it link everywhere with infrastructure named after her, so from the Queen Elizabeth Forest Park, via the various Queen Elizabeth Hospitals, bridges, courts, and other roads.

I have no objection to naming infrastructure after people, but there quite a lot of things named in her honour across the world and UK already.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_t ... izabeth_II

And anyway, if you are renaming the A1, it should be after The Doctor.
Did you know there's more to SABRE than just the Forums?
Add your roads knowledge to the SABRE Wiki today!
Have you browsed SABRE Maps recently? Try getting involved!
User avatar
KeithW
Member
Posts: 19205
Joined: Thu Dec 04, 2014 13:25
Location: Marton-In-Cleveland North Yorks

Re: Tory MP - rename A1 as the Queen's Highway

Post by KeithW »

roadtester wrote: Fri Apr 30, 2021 12:44 One suggestion was that one of the Royal Navy's still-to-be-built Type 26 frigates should be named after him - one symbolic point of significance is that one of the planned jobs of the Type 26s is to escort the UK's new aircraft carriers, so the frigate HMS Duke of Edinburgh/HMS Prince Philip would escort HMS Queen Elizabeth, rather as the D of E escorted HMQ in life.

The suggestion is slightly complicated by the fact that names have already been allocated to the entire run of eight ships and, given that they are all being named after UK cities, one of them is already due to be called HMS Edinburgh.
Well given that Prince Philip had a rather distinguished naval record and that there was a previous HMS Duke of Edinburgh that idea has some merit. None of these ships have been launched yet and only 2 laid down so while renaming serving vessels has always been considered unlucky this should not be an issue.

Image
User avatar
KeithW
Member
Posts: 19205
Joined: Thu Dec 04, 2014 13:25
Location: Marton-In-Cleveland North Yorks

Re: Tory MP - rename A1 as the Queen's Highway

Post by KeithW »

exiled wrote: Fri Apr 30, 2021 12:53
L.J.D wrote: Fri Apr 30, 2021 12:10 Maybe Queen Elizabeth Expressway would be better or Elizabeth Expressway and hopefully it would push for more upgrades to get it to a decent standard.
Queen Elizabeth Way, and they could nick the route markers from Ontario. They could make it link everywhere with infrastructure named after her, so from the Queen Elizabeth Forest Park, via the various Queen Elizabeth Hospitals, bridges, courts, and other roads.

I have no objection to naming infrastructure after people, but there quite a lot of things named in her honour across the world and UK already.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_t ... izabeth_II

And anyway, if you are renaming the A1, it should be after The Doctor.
There are already several roads in the UK called Elizabeth Way so I don't see any point in adding another. The Great North Road in its various forms has been around for a very long time. I would prefer it to be left alone.
Bomag
Member
Posts: 948
Joined: Tue Jan 26, 2010 23:26

Re: Tory MP - rename A1 as the Queen's Highway

Post by Bomag »

Isleworth1961 wrote: Fri Apr 30, 2021 11:56
Bomag wrote: Fri Apr 30, 2021 11:49
JohnnyMo wrote: Fri Apr 30, 2021 09:18 The GNR or the A1 ?
I am not certain what the Great Northern Railway or Flying Scotsman (LNER Class A1) have to do with this? :laugh:
Scotsman's now an A3...😉
Scostman currently has a non-streamlined A4 boiler, so more a A3.5
User avatar
KeithW
Member
Posts: 19205
Joined: Thu Dec 04, 2014 13:25
Location: Marton-In-Cleveland North Yorks

Re: Tory MP - rename A1 as the Queen's Highway

Post by KeithW »

skiddaw05 wrote: Fri Apr 30, 2021 12:39
L.J.D wrote: Fri Apr 30, 2021 12:10 Maybe Queen Elizabeth Expressway would be better or Elizabeth Expressway and hopefully it would push for more upgrades to get it to a decent standard.
Renaming the A149 King's Lynn bypass Queen Elizabeth Way hasn't led to anything like that :wink:
The Queen Elizabeth Way between Ingleby Barwick and Thornaby is a rather nice D2 with central barrier and wide shared use access for NMU's either side. Not bad given its unclassified.
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@54.53082 ... 8192?hl=en
User avatar
roadtester
Member
Posts: 31476
Joined: Mon Mar 26, 2007 18:05
Location: Cambridgeshire

Re: Tory MP - rename A1 as the Queen's Highway

Post by roadtester »

Perhaps the A1 should be named after a significant figure who links London and Edinburgh.

The D of E would presumably fit on that score but it could also be e.g. Gordon Brown Way (ducks for cover), a bit like the way Brian Clough Way connects Derby and Nottingham, the cities that are the homes of the two main clubs he managed during his illustrious career.
Electrophorus Electricus

Check out #davidsdailycar on Mastodon
Post Reply