You're absolutely right Keith about the A174 Parkway. You've jogged my memory- I can be pretty confident that when the road opened as a local authority road it was a 24 hour clearway from Greystones Roundabout all the way to the A19. I remember being impressed by how thorough Cleveland County Council had been in ensuring it was signed on all the ramps with the remaining distance in every case. I was struck also by the fact that the new A19, a trunk road of course, was not a clearway. IIRC the Parkway and the A1053 Greystones Road were trunked in the mid 80s. The clearway status must have been revoked some time after that.KeithW wrote: ↑Sun May 22, 2022 10:06There are plenty of clearways in towns and cities even if they are not marked as such, much of Cambridge for a start.RJDG14 wrote: ↑Sun May 22, 2022 09:45Some of those listed on the latter link look quite minor, such as Linn Road. I know that most clearways in England tend to be fairly major routes, whereas in Scotland there are some relatively major non-clearways that would likely be clearways in much of England (much of the A75 for instance - only a mile or so out of nearly 100 miles is a clearway) while there also seems to be an increasing number of quite minor clearways in tourist hotspots.KeithW wrote: ↑Sun May 22, 2022 09:09 Given that these are typically local authority roads I suspect you will have a hard time. The only authorities I know that maintain them to any degree is TfL for its Red Routes and Perth and Kinross council.
https://tfl.gov.uk/modes/driving/red-ro ... route-maps
https://perthandkinrossvisitoradvice.co ... s-the-area
https://www.google.com/maps/@52.2051366 ... 384!8i8192
Oddly a lot of HQDC's are NOT marked as clearways. Take the A174 Parkway for example which is a high speed strategic road maintained by Highways England. Want to cycle, walk or take your mobility scooter down it and have a picnic - no law has been broken. We get cyclist fatalities from time to time, usually as a result of being sucked under an artic.
https://www.google.com/maps/@54.5324991 ... 384!8i8192
Before it was upgraded there were sections of the A1 in Yorkshire that were signed as clearways
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https://goo.gl/maps/DUqHnoA9pcbUkejd8 https://goo.gl/maps/o9YPE9jh47A5s9XPA there are clearway signs here on the A174. I suspect any missing signs were down to poor maintenance rather than revocation of an order.
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The restrictions on cyclists and pedestrians using the A19 were introduced some time after 2015 after a couple of fatal accidents , not surprising really, this is not a road I would like to ride down.jcb336 wrote: ↑Wed May 25, 2022 10:43 You're absolutely right Keith about the A174 Parkway. You've jogged my memory- I can be pretty confident that when the road opened as a local authority road it was a 24 hour clearway from Greystones Roundabout all the way to the A19. I remember being impressed by how thorough Cleveland County Council had been in ensuring it was signed on all the ramps with the remaining distance in every case. I was struck also by the fact that the new A19, a trunk road of course, was not a clearway. IIRC the Parkway and the A1053 Greystones Road were trunked in the mid 80s. The clearway status must have been revoked some time after that.
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@54.55410 ... 8192?hl=en