by trashbat » Wed Feb 04, 2015 11:55 pm
Not sure I agree with that - as far as the average experience of driving them goes, I agree there are plenty of motorway-esque A roads in the UK. What I know of the A3 is an example. However if you wanted to actually turn [the non-motorway bit of] it into one, you'd have to spend a huge amount of money bringing it up to design standard, totally replacing junctions with graded ones, etc. That in itself would mean simply getting rid of a lot of low density connections, firstly on cost and secondly because that's not what motorways cater for. Indirectly then, that is about access rights, but not a trivial case of a label.
Rob - IAM F1RST, Alfa Romeo 156 JTS