rockershovel's Blog

The A1 doesn't get any better. Yesterday added insult to injury by imposing road closures on BOTH carriageways after 8pm in the Colsterworth / Grantham area. This of course combined with rail strikes.... 

 

Being headed Southbound from Nottingham about 7:30 meant I ended up trapped between them, with the usual aimless sprinkling of diversion signs essentially contradicting each other. 

 

Cut off at Grantham (having been diverted back Northbound, heading towards the N bound closure) onto the A52, A15 between Sleaford and Bourne and S bound to Peterborough. I thought of going via Manthorpe but further closure signs in Grantham dictated otherwise.

 

The particularly frustrating thing is that I could have either stayed on the A52 from Nottingham, or taken the M1 S bound to J19 then A14, without ever joining the A1. 

So many diversions signs up that you don’t know which one to take 

A14 has had a long delay on the S Bound carriageway, just by the A142 (Newmarket) intersection. It's clear that this section has no effective drainage, one and sometimes two lanes are flooded for about 100m gor several days now. 

 

That's a basic design error. There is an obvious fish-belly in the alignment - in a cutting, too. 

 

Ho hum.