A1 Western bypass widening

[Mark Hewitt]

As said above none of this will be of any use unless Whitemare Pool is given the same treatment. That is literally where motorway that has run for hundreds of miles slams into a roundabout.

[varga]

In the days when trunk road names were used, there used to be a Carlisle-Sunderland trunk road, most of which was the A69. Presumably technically there still is.

For a while the Gateshead Western bypass was also part of the A69.

The links currently under discussion here would help to create a Carlisle-Sunderland route.

But at present if you're trying to do Carlisle-Sunderland, as far as I know, the signage does not mention Sunderland at East Denton interchange or anywhere on the western bypass.

On the western bypass, the sign for the Bowes Incline junction mentions Sunderland right at the very end of the bypass approaching the start of motorway.