A Layby question.

[Duncan macknight]

The A9 between Perth & Inverness has numbered laybys from 1 at Perth, to 202 at Cromarty Bridge.

Does any other road in the UK have a long distance numbering system like this ?

[Truvelo]

Although not as extensive as the A9 numbering in the early 2000's Herefordshire Council assigned names to most of the laybys on the A465. They were all named after animals. I took this photo in 2002. I have no idea if these signs are still there 22 years on.

[DavidBrown]

Not numbered, but all the lay-bys on the A361 NDLR between Barnstaple and Tiverton are named.

[Truvelo]

Not numbered, but all the lay-bys on the A361 NDLR between Barnstaple and Tiverton are named.

Like the Herefordshire ones, they contain a really sarky message about littering.

[KeithW]

As I recall on the A171 the only named layby is the Flask and that is because the Inn predates the road numbering having been built as a toll road in the 18th century.
https://www.google.com/maps/@54.3931504 ... &entry=ttu

It is only a layby as the road was straightened in the 20th century, there are lots of oxbows on that route - here for example.
https://www.google.com/maps/@54.3896049 ... &entry=ttu

[Owain]

Although not as extensive as the A9 numbering in the early 2000's Herefordshire Council assigned names to most of the laybys on the A465. They were all named after animals. I took this photo in 2002. I have no idea if these signs are still there 22 years on.

I drove the A465 from Abergavenny to Hereford for the first time ever last spring. I didn't see any animal-themed signage in laybys.

[Truvelo]

I drove the A465 from Abergavenny to Hereford for the first time ever last spring. I didn't see any animal-themed signage in laybys.

I've looked on GSV and it seems they've been replaced by generic "stop the drop" signs.

This one showed a parrot but is now replaced in the later view.

[Owain]

I drove the A465 from Abergavenny to Hereford for the first time ever last spring. I didn't see any animal-themed signage in laybys.

I've looked on GSV and it seems they've been replaced by generic "stop the drop" signs.

This one showed a parrot by is now replaced in the later view.

You might've thought that in Herefordshire they would've gone for things like Hereford cattle or cider apples, but no - elephants and parrots.

[wallmeerkat]

I drove the A465 from Abergavenny to Hereford for the first time ever last spring. I didn't see any animal-themed signage in laybys.

I've looked on GSV and it seems they've been replaced by generic "stop the drop" signs.

This one showed a parrot by is now replaced in the later view.

You might've thought that in Herefordshire they would've gone for things like Hereford cattle or cider apples, but no - elephants and parrots.

I often wonder who the audience is? They appeal to kids but kids are likely to follow their parents - if they tell them not to litter they won't litter, if they don't care the kid won't care. The stereotypical "white van man" having a takeaway lunch isn't going to be swayed by a picture of an elephant or parrot.