21 January 2012
This week a new road enters the Motorway Database, and it's an unusual one in some respects. Most high-quality roads (of the sort that get pages in the Motorway Database) go somewhere, and connect to other important roads at both ends. The exceptions are roads that head for coastal towns, or that strike out into an excessively urban area from a big conurbation.
This week's new entry — the A41 between Watford and Aylesbury — is in the densely-populated south east of England, travelling out from the M25 to some big towns in Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire, in the gap between the M1 and M40. Its far end isn't far at all from the M40 at Oxford, the M1 at Milton Keynes or the next bit of dual carriageway at Bicester, but it connects to none of those, and just stops. The road onward through Aylesbury is so dire that, as a high speed expressway, it's effectively a dead end.
Since it was detrunked nine years ago, it's now undoubtedly a local road. But a jolly good one. So please make the A41 very welcome, and no jokes about it not being long enough, if you don't mind. I think it gets a bit sensitive.
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