A55

[Chris5156]

The Streetview car went along in October, showing the Aber to Tai'r Meibion works nearing completion. It seems somewhat overbuilt, looking like it's own little dual carriageway next to the existing one, with a bewildering number of fences. I don't really see why a private access needs to be physically separated from an NMU route when the number of motor vehicles will be tiny.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.23033 ... 384!8i8192

I suppose it is to keep the tractors and other motorised farm machinery off the A55

Yes, that's what the access road is for, but it doesn't explain why the NMU route is physically separated from the access road.

With what looks like double fences (or at least doubled-up rows of fence posts) between the two tracks and then at the outer perimeter - five lines of wooden fence poles, to segregate two tracks from the A55 and the surrounding farmland. It's a good time to be a fencing supplier in North Wales!

[Herned]

It's a field access for what seems to be a dairy farm, so fencing it off makes sense for both the farmer and the users of the path. Why a field acces route needs to be tarmacked and have a kerb is a different matter

[Bryn666]

It's a field access for what seems to be a dairy farm, so fencing it off makes sense for both the farmer and the users of the path. Why a field acces route needs to be tarmacked and have a kerb is a different matter

It's that pesky DMRB again and engineers terrified of straying from its over-specifying of everything.

[wrinkly]

After watching the most recently posted video of the A487 Dyfi bridge at Mach, I was presented with a choice of videos including this one of the works at Aber:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0kw3XaI9Ow

There's also a version with the commentary in Welsh.