Expenditure on the A1(M) Yorkshire

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Wed 27 Oct 2004 02:43
Expenditure on the A1(M) Yorkshire - Rob C
I've been commuting from Northallerton to Leeds on this road for a year now and currently a lot of work is taking place including the Wetherby by-pass.

All well and good but there are a heck of a lot of matrix signs now erected, with induction loops in the tarmac, but also now columns are being installed for cameras as well. Traffic flow monitoring cameras I hope, but I question why this is all necessary.

It's never that busy, not even on bank holidays. It slows down a bit around Wetherby on a Friday night, but that will be taken care of when the new section opens.

I just don't see the point of all this expenditure on a road that already works and flows very well.

Does anyone know of anything?
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Wed 27 Oct 2004 09:07
Expenditure on the A1(M) Yorkshire - L'escargot
The A1 not busy? Traffic flows very well? I commuted on the two lane stretch of the A1 from Doncaster to where it crosses the M62 from 1989 to 2002, and the traffic was horrendous. On occasions, at peak times, the traffic would come to a standstill (in both directions) purely because the volume of traffic.
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Wed 27 Oct 2004 10:18
Expenditure on the A1(M) Yorkshire - Rob C
That's a different bit to the section from Leeds M1/A64 up to Dishforth though.

There's a new section being built where you describe as well.
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Wed 27 Oct 2004 12:29
Expenditure on the A1(M) Yorkshire - Robin
And there's going to be more expenditure in the coming years when they make the part near Northallerton into a motorway. I havbe not found any plans for the route yet. A farmer I was talking to recently said that previous plans had the route on the east side of the southbound carriageway near the Little Bistro but swings over to the other side near Leeming - does anyone know where it is likely to go and when it is likely to start.
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Wed 27 Oct 2004 13:24
Expenditure on the A1(M) Yorkshire - SteveH42
Surely it would make more sense to turn the single-carriageway bits further north in to dual as a priority, then worry about easing traffic flow further south. This northern section of the A1 is quite a death trap at times.

As for widening, surely the Western Bypass is also more than due? Although how it can be widened in places will be a tricky one - should have been built 3-lane to start with.
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