A303: Driving the entire length Honiton to Basingstoke
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- Опубліковано 10 вер 2024
- Embark on a timelapse journey from 8 miles east of Honiton where the A30 joins the A303, for the 94 mile drive to the M3 at Basingstoke.
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Nice video 😀 very scenic road
Thanks, I travel between Essex & Devon regularly and I must admit it's my preferred route.
Happy travels keep up the good work
It was half of my trip home from visiting family in Exeter, I'm just editing the second half of the journey.
@rods-stuff I enjoy watching these trips especially when I can't get out during chemotherapy. It makes me feel like I am out and about
Stop at 4:30, the village of Winterbourne Stoke. After travelling down the M3 and a long dual carriageway section of the A303, traffic from London to the SW comes thundering through the middle of this small village. A few people who don't live anywhere near Wiltshire manipulated the courts to delay this village's long awaited by-pass until the new Government ran out of money to build it.
Thanks for the info, I didn't know anything about the plans of village being bypassed, I guess that explains the speed camera just past the bottom of the dip facing the SW.
@@rods-stuff Winterbourne Stoke would have been by-passed as part of the canceled Stonehenge tunnel scheme.
The Ilminster bypass is a disgrace of a road. For maybe two metres of widening the whole road could have been dual carriageway and saved dozens of lives.
You're not wrong, who knows what was going through the planners minds when they came up with it. It's just stupid to alternate the two lane sections the way they have.
@@rods-stuff The alternating lanes were only introduced in around 2002 as a short term safety improvement. Before that, there was just a single broken white line down the centre of the road and you'd get vehicles from both sides barrelling down the centre line, occasionally with fatal consequences.
Upgrading this section of the A303 was high on the Highway Authority's list of road projects for their next planning period and money has already been spent on the initial plans. Sadly this is now most unlikely to happen after the new Government has scrapped most new road projects. So much money is wasted in the UK planning transport projects that never get built.