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From the SABRE Wiki: A4040 :
The A4040 is the former Birmingham Outer Ring Road. The route is no longer officially considered to be a ring road, but there are still Ring Road signs along its route.
The road is a complete ring (with a few discontinuities at multiplexes) with a short spur at its northwestern corner. For the purposes of this description the road starts at the end of the spur.
The A4040 starts near The Hawthorns on the A41. Only eastbound traffic may join the A4040 whilst the A41 may
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Re: B4128
https://www.birmingham.gov.uk/downloads ... birmingham
Somewhat puzzlingly, it lists them in order of street name, rather than number. However, it does include the "Un-numbered Classified" roads that are Birmingham's Class III roads.
From this, I find that the following roads are numbered B4128, which I have reordered into logical sequence:
Coventry Road from High Street Deritend to Cattell Road
Cattell Road Whole Length
Bordesley Green Whole Length
Bordesley Green East Whole Length
Meadway Whole Length except for service roads.
So, if the list is accurate, then the sign is correct and all the mapping out there is wrong. However, this now means that B4128 peters out in the middle of nowhere, or to be more precise in Kitts Green at a junction with an "Un-numbered Classified" roads (Mackadown Lane) and two completely unclassified roads (its own extension, East Meadway, and Kitts Green Road). Signage at this junction does not mention the number anywhere.
So, who do we trust? Birmingham City Council, or the Ordnance Survey and other mapping sources including Google Maps and OSM?
I shall update the wiki with this information, it will be left to the reader to decide what the truth is.
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Re: B4128
Big and complex.
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Re: B4128
Harold Shand: "Nothing unusual," he says! Eric's been blown to smithereens, Colin's been carved up, and I've got a bomb in me casino, and you say nothing unusual ?"
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Possibly, but there's no particularly good reason not to extend it along Cooks Lane all the way to meet up with B4114.Jonathan B4027 wrote: ↑Fri Oct 22, 2021 08:16 It swaps to Solihull just before Cooks Lane? possibly why it just dies off?
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From the SABRE Wiki: B4114 :
The B4114 stepped up to the plate when two major roads needed renumbering. As the only continuous road from Birmingham to Leicester, it takes the route of the old A47 and A46 (before both were lost to the M6 and M69 respectively). Originally the road was only the short section east of Nuneaton as far as the A46 on Wolvey Heath.
The B4114 starts as a continuation of the A34 in central Birmingham, with a fully grade-separated junction at [[Lancaster
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From the SABRE Wiki: A453 :
The A453 is a road in two parts and several sections, ranging from urban to rural trunk.
The road starts at Perry Barr. The A34 being the recommended north-south route in the area, and the A4040 being the recommended east-west route in the area, and the "One-Stop" shopping centre being the most popular in the area, what hope have you got? Somewhere among this lot is the rather complex junction with the A453, which has slips onto the A34 and onto the A34/A4040
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AIUI, local (highway) authorities are under a statutory obligation to maintain their list of roads...Chris Bertram wrote: ↑Fri Oct 22, 2021 13:50 Incidentally, Birmingham's list of classified roads would have us believe that Bordesley Circus, where A45 meets B4128 and A4540 is itself part of A453! This is obvious nonsense - the next nearest bit of A453 is Aldridge Road where that diverges from A34 Walsall Road by Perry Barr station and the One Stop shopping centre, and there seems to be no evidence of it ever continuing south of there. But it does raise the question of how accurate the list is, and where the information is coming from.
So one would hope that they know the roads that they are responsible for...
From the SABRE Wiki: A453 :
The A453 is a road in two parts and several sections, ranging from urban to rural trunk.
The road starts at Perry Barr. The A34 being the recommended north-south route in the area, and the A4040 being the recommended east-west route in the area, and the "One-Stop" shopping centre being the most popular in the area, what hope have you got? Somewhere among this lot is the rather complex junction with the A453, which has slips onto the A34 and onto the A34/A4040