We tried the new A30 and there's one big problem with the layout
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- That's it. After four years, a global pandemic, a scorching summer and far too much rain, closures, a six-month delay and lengthy diversions, the A30 is finally open. The 8.7 mile former bottle neck between Carland Cross and Chiverton Cross is no more.
Instead, a brand new £330m dual-carriageway has replaced it, its tarmac all shiny and clean. National Highways and its contractor Costain said ancillary work will continue for the next six months to finish off access roads, slip roads, junctions, bridges and tunnels, signage as well as a few more miles of Cornish hedges and all the planting that still needs to be done, but all in all, you can drive from Carlisle to Camborne at 70mph before the road drops back to one lane for the last 15 miles or so to Penzance.
Local residents and holidaymakers have already been driving on parts of the A30 as various trunks have opened in the last two years. But it was always single-lane and lined with traffic cones. Until yesterday (Monday, June 24), you didn't travel along the A30 between Carland Cross and Chivvy. You crawled along at top speeds of 30mph. At times it was so slow you could have walked faster.
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So what’s the “big problem with the layout”?
Or was that just clickbait?
They don't like the fact it may encourage visitors. They prefer it without outsiders, same attitude here in Wales.
We drove down a new road, guess what? It’s a Road 😳
You said people were speeding yet you were sat in the overtaking lane most of the time so how fast were you going or was this incorrect information and people were mostly doing 70 or less?
The only person bombing it down the road was the cam car.
Great new road. The laybys are super safe, the lines are painted in a special way that makes noise when your tyre touches them and the tarmac is super smooth. Can't fault it. Just wish it continued all the way to Penzance 😊
No problem with the layout, the actual road is awful to drive on though, extremely bumpy in places, the old road is much smoother. Expecting it to close again in the Spring to repair it
I agree, I drive a truck and it bounces all over the place because it's so bumpy...really bad for a brand new road.
@@alloy2047 I thought the same when driving along the eastbound carriageway - I was driving a car. I even wondered if it would need repairing before the end of the holiday season?
This is what the A303 should be upgraded to fully dual carriageway from M3 Basingstoke to Honiton. And the A47 in Norfolk from Great Yarmouth to King’s Lynn and King’s Lynn-Peterborough and Winsford.
Been on it twice over the weekend..vast improvement.of coarse it will get busier during the summer. All roads do.unless there's a smash or breakdown it should flow ok..
So it’s 70 mph from Carlisle to Camborne is it? Pity M5 is shut down with major delays on an almost daily basis. Great length of the M1 is 50 mph for installation additional emergency refuges ( what chance breaking down next to one with no hard shoulder). Major roadworks on M42 for HS2?
Last friday it took us 12.5 hours to travel by coach from St Mawes to Wakefield. 7 hours to get to Bridgewater after travelling 10
Miles in 4 hours between Taunton Dean and Sedgemoor services. Could have flown to Denver quicker!
So what was the problem with the layout?
Yeah, whats the problem?
I’ve been learning about non-motorway special roads for the past few days, One of the unusual characteristics of all non-motorway Special Roads is that they must have their Speed Limits defined within their Statutory Instruments and signposted explicitly, as the National Speed Limit only applies to all-purpose roads and motorways.
I have a well-organised mind, allowing me to focus on the essential. I am disappointed that the signs that display the users who/that are not allowed on this tempting stretch of tarmac only forbid horse-carts that are loaded with hay and bicycles that have no-one riding them. A team of cycling horses pulling a sled loaded with inebriated hedgehogs would be allowed? Who ordered the signs?
So what do the cornish have going for them to get their dual carriageway gaps filled in when the A30 still has 5 two-way stretches between Honiton by-pass and Boscombe Down? In fact this is the first Election I remember when they havn't promised to dual it to Ilchester but then used the druids objection and areas of outstanding beauty as an excuse to shuffle it off to interminable enquiries. Stonehenge has tailbacks all year round.
I suspect that you mean the A303? The A30 turns off towards Yarcombe several miles east of Honiton, the main road becomes the A303 at that point, and remains so until it joins the M3 near Basingstoke. Although the OLD A30 does rejoin at Popham, a couple of miles before the M3 junction
@@paulgoff5068 Yup, you are right although there are about 5 miles of the A30 East of Honiton that carry the traffic of both that is unlikely to ever be dualed because of the terrain
And the point of this video was what?
i just finished up on this project back in April. Working as quality assurance works inspector on all of the structures.
What is this clickbait!? Theres no "big problem" highlighted here? No need to clickbait guys.
I'm gonna like all the tourists on this just to annoy the people who were born locally. I live locally and I love tourists. Without tourists you would have far higher unemployment
typical a trip that is now cut from 45 minutes in summer to 10 minutes now and there still bleddy moaning.
Dreadfully bad title. There's no 'big problem' addressed.
Ah yes, the national obsession of playing bottleneck shuffle and increasing the number of vehicles on the roads.
Welcome to Reach Media, everyone. Anything that's just [placename] Live is this same clickbait crap.