Road classification system

Since the weekend, I have been thinking about inventing (or
re-instating, if there is one already in use?) some sort of new road
classification system. A roads, B road and Motorways are all very well
but they can encompass a wide range of road styles that are suitable
for people of different ability/confidence.

For example, there are B roads in Essex that might be unclassified in
Derbyshire, dual carriageways in Bedfordshire with nice tight turns
that a Staffordshire dual carriageway would have a hissy fit at. There
are loads of A- roads across the country, some of which are nice and
wide with slow, sweeping bends, with really good visibility, whereas
others are narrow, twisty and shall we say more 'challenging' for
newer riders.

What would be really good is some sort of agreement on classification,
ranging from "straight as a die and wide as my arse" to "narrow,
twisty, and unless oyu know it lik ethe back of your hand, could be
down to 30-40 in places" kind of roads. That way the description of a
route is less likely to be based on a subjective assessment by someone
who, for example, rides that way to work every day and thinks it's
easy or something.

Slightly more than my 2p there, but what do people think?

 

But surely that depends on arse size? I mean, lets face it, anything
less than the M6 is going to be unclassifiable by me.

You of the fairer folk of course, would rate a single track mountain
bike only route as "superhighway".

 

Isn't that, "Staying out of Cane's reach"?

Or is that more of a full-time occupation?


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Doesnotcompute wrote

We could name the roads after ukrmers. A sliding scale from ginge to his
hairdresser.

 

I think I need to do some work. You could be right.

 

you mean "Essex" - he'd never get this far North. ;o)

I have a full time occupation, unfortunately it doesn't seem to keep
me occupied full time.

 

There is, you just don't want one.

 

Ginge wrote

Are you surprised?

 

Heh heh - nah, Will would have the shock of his life if he caught me
in there! I was a domestic goddess for a year, FFS, it cant be
expected to last...

 

Glad it's not just me that thinks so!

 

"Bear"

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I was out running last night and my run takes me from Bedfordshire into
Cambridgeshire. Whiles running from my home [1] there are lots of
potholes and sunken road surfaces. In general the road is awful. I then
pass a sign stating Welcome to Cambridgeshire, all of a sudden the road
turns from a crumbling wreck to a smooth surface. About a mile later I
turn around and start my run home. the funniest part of the run is when
I pass the sign. Welcome to Bedfordshire A progressive county. They must
mean progressively worse.


[1] Bedfordshire

 

I find that Cambridgeshire's roads get worse the further north in the
county you get; theback roads around the fens are awful. South of
Cambridge they get better when it becomes essex.

 

Alan.T.Gower fascinated us all by saying...

I think they just misspelled 'regressive'

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*give Lozzo a knowing nod*.

 

Pip, I love you. Just the kind of thing that appeals. I could spend
hours on this site...

Takes me back to when we used to get my Dad and my uncle to compete n
road-awareness "which road starts at Leicester and ends in Derby" (for
an easy one, down to "I am on the A445, where might I have started and
where might i be going" They'd compete for hours.