How much would it cost to reroute the A15 back thru Scampton
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(Sorry for "thru" - it's a title length limit thing)
Now that RAF Scampton is shut, it should be possible to make the A15 "straight again" through it. There wouldn't really be much point in this other than making the A15 very straight, but that is in its own way its own reward.
How much would doing that cost roughly?
Can we make the Germans or the Scots pay?
Now that RAF Scampton is shut, it should be possible to make the A15 "straight again" through it. There wouldn't really be much point in this other than making the A15 very straight, but that is in its own way its own reward.
How much would doing that cost roughly?
Can we make the Germans or the Scots pay?
It'll probably be made a roundabout for access to the development intended for Scampton:
https://www.west-lindsey.gov.uk/council-news/2023/...
https://www.west-lindsey.gov.uk/council-news/2023/...
coppice said:
The kink around Scampton is one of the few things keeping me awake between the M180 and Lincoln. As an aside I attended an RAF family day display there a few years ago but it looks very sad now.
Off topic but if you think that looks sad, don't look for videos of JHQ Rheindahlen as it is now. 
Saleen836 said:
Around 13 years ago according to the Highways Agency it was approx £30m per mile of motorway, so most likely double that now so will give you an idea of cost to build/reroute an A road
Ok so it's about a mile, but less than half the size of a motorway, so let's call it £30m.That's about £1 per tax payer.
I'd gladly pay an extra £1 in tax this year to make the A15 straight again. A fiver even.
Somewhatfoolish said:
Ok so it's about a mile, but less than half the size of a motorway, so let's call it £30m.
That's about £1 per tax payer.
I'd gladly pay an extra £1 in tax this year to make the A15 straight again. A fiver even.
The A15 is bad enough as it is (for accidents), it doesn't need straightening.That's about £1 per tax payer.
I'd gladly pay an extra £1 in tax this year to make the A15 straight again. A fiver even.
Drumroll said:
Somewhatfoolish said:
Ok so it's about a mile, but less than half the size of a motorway, so let's call it £30m.
That's about £1 per tax payer.
I'd gladly pay an extra £1 in tax this year to make the A15 straight again. A fiver even.
The A15 is bad enough as it is (for accidents), it doesn't need straightening.That's about £1 per tax payer.
I'd gladly pay an extra £1 in tax this year to make the A15 straight again. A fiver even.
But surely you can see there is some beauty in a really unusually straight piece of road?
Of course outside of the UK they're ten a penny. But we don't really have them here. Sort this (and a coupe of roundabouts) out and it could be >20 miles of straightness.
There is an alternative as well - super-elevation. Could keep the bend around Scrampton but bank the road to such a degree such that a car driving at 60mph would do the curve by itself.
God that would be beautiful.
Somewhatfoolish said:
But surely you can see there is some beauty in a really unusually straight piece of road?
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Can't think of anything more boring than a long straight road..
Give me a road in the dales when you can't drive much faster than 30MPH because of the blind bends narrowness of the road. That's a driving road.
Drumroll said:
Somewhatfoolish said:
But surely you can see there is some beauty in a really unusually straight piece of road?
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Can't think of anything more boring than a long straight road..
Give me a road in the dales when you can't drive much faster than 30MPH because of the blind bends narrowness of the road. That's a driving road.
A bit like steam paddle ships are objectively rubbish, but it's great that the SS Waverly exists.
Somewhatfoolish said:
Drumroll said:
Somewhatfoolish said:
Ok so it's about a mile, but less than half the size of a motorway, so let's call it £30m.
That's about £1 per tax payer.
I'd gladly pay an extra £1 in tax this year to make the A15 straight again. A fiver even.
The A15 is bad enough as it is (for accidents), it doesn't need straightening.That's about £1 per tax payer.
I'd gladly pay an extra £1 in tax this year to make the A15 straight again. A fiver even.
But surely you can see there is some beauty in a really unusually straight piece of road?
Of course outside of the UK they're ten a penny. But we don't really have them here. Sort this (and a coupe of roundabouts) out and it could be >20 miles of straightness.
There is an alternative as well - super-elevation. Could keep the bend around Scrampton but bank the road to such a degree such that a car driving at 60mph would do the curve by itself.
God that would be beautiful.
More likely to get a mile with yet another lane around the western edge of the M25
donkmeister said:
Fun though that might be, and whilst the A15 is an historic old road (it's the old Gt N. road/Ermine Street, no?) I expect that some aesthetic improvements to the A15 wouldn't be deemed as much a priority as sorting out some of the snarl-ups on the more major routes.
More likely to get a mile with yet another lane around the western edge of the M25
Ermine Street, yes. Great North Road, no (that's to the west via Newark and Doncaster).More likely to get a mile with yet another lane around the western edge of the M25
There's also an Old North Road and in some places an Old Great North Road plus the A1; all heading vaguely south - north though Lincolnshire and/or Nottinghamshire.
ETA: I omitted the Old London Road...
Edited by Riley Blue on Monday 22 July 08:56
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