"Neil Williams" wrote in message
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On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 23:19:21 +0000, Clive Page
wrote:

They need to lengthen the slip roads on service stations as well. The
worst are the oldest ones, which often have a give way right before
the slip road so you can't start accelerating until you're on it, and
most are far too short and often have tarmac in very poor condition.
Most need, IMO, to be twice as long as they currently are.

The worst example of a short slip road is at a Little Chef service station
on the A1 somewhere on the northbound side near Doncaster. I stopped once
there for a pee and it took me about 10 minutes to join the A1 because the
slip road is so short that there isn't sufficient space to accelerate to 70
within the normal gap between cars. And that's with a reasonably powerful
car. How lorries ever manage to rejoin the A1 safely is a mystery to me.