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Factfile - Images - Exit List

The Leeds to Scarborough road remains a trunk route to this day, but since the 1970s it has been sorely neglected. Back then it was endowed with fast dualled sections (the reason this page exists) from Leeds to York, the York bypass, then the Malton bypass. Plans to finish the job by filling in the gaps all the way to Scarborough were last seen vanishing into a Whitehall shredder in mid 1997.

It's not that the route doesn't need the extra capacity - most of the time it's busy, but through the summer it's a guaranteed 40mph crawl from the York bypass to the A1039 roundabout at Staxton where traffic starts dispersing along the coast. Scarborough's local paper has a very militant campaign running to get the route upgraded, but at present the only thing on the drawing board is a bypass for the town of Rillington, east of Malton, to be built as a single carriageway. Studies have been carried out and recommendations made in long-term transport plans but there's no formal plan to do the job yet.

The result of this is that the Malton bypass is a four-mile frenzy of overtaking. In heavy traffic this usually means additional delays as the two busy lanes try to narrow into one again, meaning the last mile of the bypass is usually a traffic jam. Heading westbound, there's a further (lower standard) section of dual carriageway before York - but it's wasted, as almost nobody dares overtake after the fiasco at Malton.

Factfile

Start	Bramham (A1)
Finish	Malton
Passes	York
Length	35 miles
Terminates	None
Spurs	None
Meets	None

Images

Views of the A64 from on and off the road. If you have a photo to contribute, contact me.

Exit List

All the junctions and destinations along the route.

Westbound								Eastbound
The SOUTH Doncaster Manchester A1(M)		A1(M)		WEST A64		A1		N/A
Leeds (N) A64
The NORTH Wetherby A1
4 miles, 2 lanes								2 miles, 2 lanes
						A659		Tadcaster A659
Sherburn-in-Elmet Towton A162		A162				A162
2 miles, 2 lanes
Tadcaster Boston Spa A659						A659
2 miles, 2 lanes								6 miles, 2 lanes
Bilbrough Appleton Roebuck Bolton Percy								Bilbrough Appleton Roebuck Bolton Percy
1 mile, 2 lanes								1 mile, 2 lanes
Askham Richard								Askham Richard
1 mile, 2 lanes								1 mile, 2 lanes
Outer Ring Road Thirsk (A19) Poppleton Acomb Copmanthorpe A1237						A1237		Outer Ring Road Thirsk (A19) Poppleton Acomb Copmanthorpe A1237
1 mile, 2 lanes								1 mile, 2 lanes
York City Centre Racecourse A1036						A1036		York City Centre Racecourse A1036
2 miles, 2 lanes
Ouse								Ouse
								2 miles, 2 lanes
Selby Doncaster Hull Shopping Outlet A19		A19				A19		Selby Doncaster Hull Shopping Outlet A19
3 miles, 2 lanes								3 miles, 2 lanes
Hull A1079 Bridlington Stamford Bridge A166		A1079 A166				A1079		Hull A1079 Bridlington Stamford Bridge A166
2 miles, 2 lanes								2 miles, 2 lanes
Ring Road York (N) Haxby Thirsk (A19) A1237				A64		A1237		Ring Road York (N) Haxby A1237
Road is below standard for 12 miles
N/A		B1248		A64				Malton Norton B1248
3 miles, 2 lanes								3 miles, 2 lanes
Pickering Whitby A169		B1257				A169		Pickering Whitby A169
1 mile, 2 lanes								1 mile, 2 lanes
Malton Norton B1248		B1248		A64 EAST				N/A