On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 12:11:48 -0000, "Martin Underwood"
wrote:

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.

There are some turnings onto the A1 from minor roads with poor
visibility and no acceleration lane at all. I encountered one of
these on the way to the MoD vehicle auction at Witham Specialist
Vehicles. Even in a modern car it wasn't fun, and relied on a few
cars moving over to let you out onto what may as well be a motorway in
terms of the prevailing speeds.

Not fun.

Neil

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