On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 17:10:23 +0000 (UTC), "Terry Harper"
wrote:

I've often wondered why the MoT/DoT/DEFRA uses a system designed to confuse,
and why they don't adopt the US method of showing roads which share routes
on the signposts. Hence you could follow A34 all the way, rather than have
to know that you need to use the A43/M40/M42/M6 to pick it up again.

Or how about the European Route Numbering System? [1]

For example, the good old E15 which, in the UK, runs from Dover to Wick,
via the A20, M20, M25, A282 (Dartford Crossing), M25, A1(M), A1, [Repeat
A1(M) and A1 as necessary], A720, A8, A902, A90, M90, A9 and A99. A
distance of 738 miles!

Or the rather odd E32, which runs the 16 miles of A120 from Harwich to
Colchester.

HTH,

Barry

[1] Full List: http://www.elbruz.org/eroads/AGR_2.htm

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