swatchways wrote:I understand tractors still have to get about, but surely the speed differentials are the same (if not worse on that stretch of a14 (Bury St Ed's/Haughley way)) as on a motorway? Or is it the less frequent on/offs or rest stops that trigger the restrictions?
jont wrote:swatchways wrote:I understand tractors still have to get about, but surely the speed differentials are the same (if not worse on that stretch of a14 (Bury St Ed's/Haughley way)) as on a motorway? Or is it the less frequent on/offs or rest stops that trigger the restrictions?
I suspect it's the lack of alternative road. If you look at something like the A1(M) upgrading in Yorkshire, one side of the old carriageway is generally kept as a renamed A-road for local (and non-M'way) traffic, running parallel to the motorway. With the A14 there isn't really a viable alternative for much of it.
Never mind tractors, I've seen cyclists on the A14. I know they have the /right/ to be there, but I wish they'd have a sense of responsibility and keep off it!
Hansard, 1934 recording Lieut.-Colonel MOORE-BRABAZON MP wrote:...It is true that 7,000 people are killed in motor accidents, but it is not always going on like that. People are getting used to the new conditions. The fact that the road is practically the great railway of the country, instead of being the playground of the young, has to be realised. No doubt many of the older Members of the House will recollect the numbers of chicken's that we killed in the early days. We used to come back with the radiator stuffed with feathers. It was the same with dogs. Dogs get out of the way of motor cars nowadays, and you never kill one. There is education even in the lower animals....
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