B3284
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From: | Truro (SW830448) | |||
To: | Perranporth (SW757542) | |||
Distance: | 9.4 miles (15.1 km) | |||
Meets: | A39, A30, A3075, B3285 | |||
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The B3284 connects Truro to Cornwall's north coast.
The road begins at a roundabout on the A39 Truro city centre bypass. It passes a couple of traffic signals and the Highcross multi-story car park, then, slightly to the east of Truro Cathedral and the main shopping streets, it climbs round a bend and reaches a mini roundabout. It passes under a railway bridge and continues to climb passing the City Inn and narrowing. Truro is Cornwall's only city, but it's still not a large area and the road quickly takes on a suburban feel.
The climb continues past a disused garage and the city is then left behind completely and a NSL sign appears. It's a pastoral scene after that, as the route makes the transition from south to north coasts. The rural traverse is interrupted at Shortlanesend, a village which sounds like someone forgot the spaces on the sign. It's a 30mph limit through the village. After that is a good straight section where rapid progress should be possible.
The road reaches the A30 at the Chybucca junction in the single carriageway section of that road between Carland Cross and Chiverton Cross. As of 2023, due to the dualling works between those two junctions, the former LILO junction plus a gap in the central reservation of a D1 arrangement for the A30 has been replaced with a traffic-signal. Turning left, the traveller would have taken a short multiplex along the A30 before turning right to continue. However as of 2023, this next section of road is closed because of the roadworks. When dualling of the A30 in this section is complete, the B3284 junction will be remodelled around two roundabouts either side of the new dualled route. Limited access will be given towards/from the new dualled carriageway but will otherwise be available to the old A30, being retained as a Local Access Route.
Picking up the road again from its junction with the A3075 its a similar story; a fairly straight B road that crosses the countryside. It drops down a hill into the large seaside village of Perranporth. The last couple of hundred yards are humped and then the road simply becomes the B3285 when that joins from the left at a TOTSO.