all the trees in the landscaping seem to have about 20-30 years growth on them so this is obviously a vision into the mid century - and hardly any traffic - its got to be good!
For those interest in following the progress, each month I fly a drone over various points of interest to see how things are progressing and hopefully dissuade anyone from trespassing onto the sites out of curiosity , if your interested you can find them on my channel.
This is what Cambridgeshire wanted. A new upgraded A14 to avoid Huntingdon that the A14 links from Felixstowe to the Midlands, A1(M) & M1 and M6 near Rugby. Are there plans to do upgrades to the A47 from Great Yarmouth to Acle, Acle-Postwick, Costteey-Kings Lynn, Kings-Lynn-Wisbech-Peterborough and Peterborough-Winsford (A1 junction). To upgrade parts of the A47 single carriageway to a fully operational dual carriageway main road that East Anglia (Norfolk, and Cambridgeshire) wants. Including adding new segregated junctions with slip roads or large roundabouts to replace the accident prone intercross-section junctions.
However, taking the whole thing in overview, despite moaning over the details, it does look like a fairly decent, straightforward, and long overdue remedy to what is currently a trio of very crappy junctions along the mainline of what's supposed to be a trunk route between East Anglia and the Midlands. So bravo for actually getting it done. Unless of course funding gets whipped away at the last moment, as is so often the case.
To answer Matt H's query, it's not a motorway because it doesn't have any hard shoulder. Since not having a hard shoulder is one of the main reasons for serious congestion arising from accidents / breakdowns on the existing two carriageway A14 you might wonder, after all this expenditure, not to mention delays, road closures over a four year period whether the whole exercise was worthwhile. I couldn't possibly comment.
So for all intents and purposes this is the M14 now? Grade separated, 3 lanes, large radius turns. Whats stops this being a motorway and having blue signs up? Surely that would help drivers out a great deal?
No practical alternatives provided for non-motorway traffic (pedestrians, cyclists, mopeds, learner drivers including cars/trucks/buses/125cc bikes that are otherwise fast enough for motorways but legally prohibited, farm vehicles, all the traction engines going to the Stanford Steam Rally, etc), so it has to technically remain available as a right of way for them, regardless of bad an idea that actually is in reality. Thus, all-purpose road, not motorway. If there was enough money to provide a 2-lane service road alongside, or even just a single track road with passing places (or make two of them, each 1-way, flanking the A14) and a shared-use pedestrian and cycle path beside it - or the improvement works did a three stage process of building a whole new 3-lane carriageway off to one side (whilst keeping the current road open), then widening the nearer of the existing carriageways (closing that, but running traffic on the new one and the other old one), then finally running motorway-class traffic along the widened carriageways (including "backwards" vs the original flow, on the old side) and keeping the unwidened one as an unclassified 2-lane road - and either shoulders were provided as part of the works, or you turned the entire thing ATM with refuges, then you could quite happily redesignate it as a motorway. Much like how the A74 was turned into the M6 / M74 from the Cumberland Gap northwards; there's a general-purpose road running alongside the motorway for much of its length, which is essentially one of the old dual carriageways (and in places, probably the original single carriageway from before it even being dualled), and that serves both local traffic and any longer-distance travellers who aren't motorway legal. Buuuuut little of that has been done along the A14 - not even for the few miles immediately east of Catthorpe where it transitions directly to/from the M6 and M1, and the only non-motorway alternative routes serving the villages that used to be accessible from the original nightmare of a junction (which now get the noise and pollution, but none of the mobility benefits) are quite circuitous yomps through the back lanes. So an all-purpose A-road it must remain, unless/until that situation is remedied.
@@markpenrice6253 The A1307 runs parallel as a local access road. Plus learners are allowed on motorways now and if you're a pedestrian or cyclist going down the A14 then you're an idiot.
It will never make up for all the closures and delays we have to put up with now especially when you are a shift worker I have had 5 years of closures and diversions and speed restrictions totally fed up with it
Are you planning on providing meaningful signage on the A14 westbound? Currently Felixstowe is signposted from as far as the Catthorpe interchange -- its whole length -- but going west, it just says "The Midlands" and when you pass the A6 Market Harborough turning, the only destination given is "M1 (N), M6" and you only see signs for Birmingham once you join the M6 -- consider that Birmingham is signposted on the M40 from as far south as Denham and on the southbound M6 from Preston. As it leads directly into the M6, the A14 should be signposted for Birmingham at least from Kettering, perhaps all the way to Felixstowe or at least Ipswich (where the A12 to London diverges). The A14/M1/M6 interchange isn't a destination in itself, and now that it's free-flowing, it's even less noticeable. Let's have the places this road goes on the signs, not a mere junction.
Matthew Smith I like the new Catthorpe interchange layout. Shame that you can’t access Swinford village except getting off the next junction on the M6 (Junction 2). Then use the back roads to get to Swinford and other neighbouring villages. Plus it’s where the 3 counties-Northamptonshire, Leicestershire and Warwickshire meet.
So, correct me if I'm wrong but all A1307 (old A14 route) traffic from Huntingdon, St Ives, Fenstanton etc all needs to come off at Swavesey even if most of this traffic just want to access the A14 eastbound or the M11. Why the hell didn't you put in a dedicated onslip from A1307 to the A14 eastbound? You do realise all those housebuilding projects between Godmanchester and Fenstanton will now add to an already busy junction at Swavesey. Already witnessing long delays getting out of Swavesey because - of course everyone has to give way to A1307 traffic that's now having to use the roundabouts.
A14 is just an extension of the M6 and sucks up most of the traffic going to East of England, East of London or the continent. This should have been built decades ago. To be honest though, this should have been a 4 lane motorway like the A1(M) just north of here.
the tree planting intiative was obviously given to the lowest tender, 4-5 guys turn up in a tatty transit , poke a hole and push the twig in , no filling back in, AND THEN spray weedkiller all around most have died and the ones which havent are suffocated by the plastic sleeve. none of them are going to grow on a new motorway slope because the water just runs off , (through what is i imagine a very gravelly substrate,) so now we have miles of plastic pipe sticking up, and when the travellers return to cut the grass they dont even pick up the old ones, or any litter .. which are blowing around...i would just rather see grass than plastic everywhere .
Appreciate the video and the improvements. However, I can't help feel that the road needs 4 lanes along the full length. It merges 2 major routes: A1-M11 traffic with A14 traffic. Both routes require AT LEAST 2 lanes each, so why not 4 lanes when they merge? Will preparation be made for easy further widening in future, if necessary? A radical idea, I know!
Can you join the Ermine Street Junction (going to Godmanchester) from Cambridge? It appears they are service roads only. You can heading towards Cambridge. Seems pointless.
Both slip roads on the east side of A1198 are service roads. So you won't be able join A14 EB from A1198 to go to Cambridge. You won't be able to leave A14 WB to get onto A1198.
I noticed this also, bit annoying since I live near Godmanchester so I will have to keep using the old section from Swavesey (The A1307 as it will become), but at least it should be mostly deserted and very few trucks
I emailed Highways England. They said it is a Smart Motorway 'Ready' project, meaning that they could easily make it a smart motorway with variable speed limits if 'Expressway' legislation passes through parliament.
A-roads that are dual carriageway is 60-70mph. A-roads that are single carriageway are 50-60mph. Motorways are 60-70mph. B-roads are 40-50mph and local roads are 20mph, 30mph, 40mph and 50mph (which varies) including at villages, towns and cities in the UK.
At 8m 02secs would it be clearer to indicate that you can still join Huntingdon Road (heading into Cambridge) off the A14, in between the M11 and the A14? If that's the case? The video implies (at 8m 06secs) that there is no access to the A1307 Huntingdon Road off the A14, as the video only shows the A1307 from Dry Drayton. Also, does this mean that there is no direct route leaving Cambridge on Huntingdon Road onto the A14? The video implies that you would have to take the A1307 to Dry Drayton, and then the local access road to Bar Hill.
I think you can join the A14 from the Huntingdon road by turning right at the second round about - there looks to be a slip road which joins the A14-A14 Freeflow link
5:21 Look at the road on the left, that's what I was talking about where you have to take the Old A14 to get to Cambridge, so the Old A14 will still be used. So emgrgency vehicles can take the emergency sliproad while others have to go further to get to the Old A14 to get back onto A14/M11 towards Cambridge.
Because they - and moreover, the A11 which (ignoring the more recent spur up to the A14) is the direct continuation of the M11 - don't go anywhere near each other? The western A14 was a wholly new-build route, much like the M1, and the southern part of the M6. There wasn't any other direct connection through the area at the time, i.e. it doesn't shadow or supercede any other existing road. Whereas the M11 follows largely alongside what was the A11 (now somewhat unnecessarily downgraded and disguised under a number of different designations) from where the current road ends at Great Chesterford down into the capital (or at least, terminating at the M25). The routing of the modern A14 is a bit of a nonsensical mess, and both the M6 diverges somewhat from the A6 south of Manchester (heading back towards it after Walsall, but not quite getting there and leaving that job to the A14 which literally steals some of the A6's old length around Kettering), and the M1 is never really more than distantly parallel to the A1 (but at least does still go in roughly the same direction)... but having the M11 suddenly divert a full ninety degrees from its north-northeast routing and its namesake A-road (whose brief confluence with the A14 is itself _to the northeast,_ whilst crossing over on its way to *Norwich* ... the A11 being the old London-to-Norwich road) to not only run a convenient short spur up the side of Cambridge to reach the A14 westbound, but then strike out on a path that curves even further away towards Rugby, Coventry and Birmingham, would be a magnitude less logical still. Though it would result in some troublesome junction renumbering, I figure it might work better to extend the M6 designation all the way down to Kettering (so it finally makes sense, particularly if the mainline were to be diverted via the toll road and the original route from M42 to M54 renumbered to something more meaningful) or even the A1 (which would make the existence of two A14s at Huntingdon less of a problem - one could simply become a sliproad... otherwise the northern arm would probably be best taking on the A141 moniker), and then have A14(M) from whichever of those points is chosen out at least as far as Cambridge, maybe even Newmarket (where the A11 departs northwards), after which it can remain A14 without any naming issues whatsoever, and rather less in the way of non motorway traffic causing an issue for long distance travellers to/from Ipswich, so long as a cycle path (maybe with an allowance for genuine mopeds so long as they give way to cycles and pedestrians) is run alongside it to provide proper segregation for the more vulnerable users.
OK, colour me slightly confused - why are you building in so many perfectly good - and _would_ have been very useful - sliproads, but then barring them off for "emergency use only"? Particularly I can see at least one entire junction that would be considered perfectly in-spec for a lot of common dualled A-roads (and indeed, similar ones are presumably retained on the old mainline) which is _entirely_ "emergency access". Plus another (A1098) which is a limited junction (you can only leave eastbound, or join westbound) even though the tarmac is going to be provided for the opposing manouevres, just in a weirdly snaking arrangement despite the surrounding landscaping suggesting entirely normal straight-ahead alignments, and it would make perfect sense to allow full access instead of crossing traffic having to go all the way up to the old road or find an alternative path through the back lanes. And is it really the case that if you want to go from the A14 west to A1 south (or A1 north to A14 east), you have to go up to the northwest-most junction, on the A1, and do a full U-turn around the roundabout to head back the way you just came? Even though the emergency slips would seem to offer various ways to avoid having to do that, via either back lanes or a direct link to an existing junction providing access to/from the southern A1 (in the latter case, the emergency slips that go down to the A1514, which otherwise look to be perfectly good connections for that purpose, if needlessly narrow and tight-radius given the space available). Is the idea that anyone wanting to do that will be forced off onto the A428 instead, even though that's only really useful if they're travelling long distance rather than to/from/between any local destinations? Those things together plus that otherwise vestigial looking "local access road" makes it look like trying to navigate your way to anywhere in the area from outside, using the A14 to get there, or indeed do anything other than travel direct east-west or interchange between the A14 and A1 north will be a confusing nightmare, especially if you don't have a satnav ... or have learned not to entirely trust it when weird-looking routes appear on the screen. For one thing, it looks like in order to get from the westbound carriageway down to Lolworth you now have to make a full 360 degree right turn, followed later by a 270, even though the old left in/left out, or even just the off-slip (as rejoining isn't _quite_ as bad, though still much more convoluted than before), could easily have been retained to link up with the new roadway (which in fairness does at least make access to/from the eastbound side easier). Incidentally, what's happening to the old road... how much is being retained, in what state, and with what designation? I expect anyone living along its length and that may have made use of it, or visitors to said areas from outside, might like to know. I presume it'll remain as-is, just renumbered, as a slightly lower standard (probably with a needlessly punitive 50 or even 40mph limit, given the usual way of things) access into/through Huntingdon and further up to the A1(M) (...which is another non-safety-related reason it may get slowed: to discourage anyone from cutting off the corner relative to the new route, by making it actually slower to go the old way). I tried to figure it out from the video, running in reverse, but found myself frustrated and instinctively trying to scroll/zoom the virtual map as the image gradually disappeared off the side... That said, good call on _partly_ getting rid of that hideous old semi-cloverleaf at Cambridge, even if some of it still remains... (the M11 north to A14 east loop... which, in isolation and thus without the weaving that currently results between those vehicles and traffic heading through the A14 west to A14 west "totso", probably won't be any kind of problem any more other than for inattentive drivers of anything with a high centre of gravity). And although the local access road is a bit of a mess, it does at least provide about as many improved routes as it does hampered ones, so it's a net neutral outcome. Or am I reading it all wrong, and what that's actually there for is to allow a future upgrade - stealth or in plain view - upgrading of the road to A14(M) or even M14, thanks to that (plus the old road) also being a convenient alternative route for non-motorway road users?
They are demolishing the current A14 bridge over the railway station in Huntingdon. All traffic to continue using the A1M will need to follow the new road.
@@Groot-zc5rz Indeed the existing A14 will terminate at the A1198 junction this Monday the 9th December. It forms something of a dead end then for HGV's since they cannot pass though Godmanchester and travelling south on the A1198 doesn't take them anywhere useful at all, only back towards the A428 which they could have been on all along. Be interesting how that pans out. Living adjacent to the old A14 means i'm very much looking forward to the reduced traffic and noise!
Why does the A14 - which carries huge volumes of traffic, especially lorries, from Europe to the rest of the UK - get this drip feed improvement over decades, when other schemes seem to get more preferential treatment?
Difficult to properly visualise the changes planned. Would have been better to include a before and after 2D map as well. Of course, all this would be unnecessary if they would introduce a law whereby lorries and other vehicles, that cannot reach 70mph, are banned from overtaking on dual lane roads! So many of the traffic problems are actually caused by this nuisance.
The point is that, over 90 miles (Cambridge to the Midlands), truck "racing" is pointless; you'll get to the Midlands about 3-5 mins quicker... But if a car can get past a truck, he gets there about 13-15 mins quicker. Road haulage IS important, but it is selfish to block the outside lane and potentially impact over a hundred cars that are stuck behind you for a couple of miles (and possibly cause a shunt in the process), just because you think you must overtake another truck that is driving 2-3 mph hour slower than yourself... Because we are now considering "truck platooning", then that implies that we've already accepted that trucks can go at the speed of the slowest truck in the group...
The amount of times I overtake cars doing 40-50mph in a my lorry and then they speed up as soon as you start to overtake, I think you're blaming the wrong people
Huntingdon Town Centre old A14 Viaduct removal proposal is also worth a look th-cam.com/video/MY9XI6-KDX8/w-d-xo.html and assets.highwaysengland.co.uk/roads/road-projects/a14-cambridge-to-huntingdon-improvement/A14+What's+happening+in+Huntingdon+roll-ups+small.pdf
all the trees in the landscaping seem to have about 20-30 years growth on them so this is obviously a vision into the mid century - and hardly any traffic - its got to be good!
For those interest in following the progress, each month I fly a drone over various points of interest to see how things are progressing and hopefully dissuade anyone from trespassing onto the sites out of curiosity , if your interested you can find them on my channel.
Good in theory but have you at any point considered the AIR TRAFFIC at Bourn and Cambridge using this airspace?
@@SamBerryphotography At 400 feet?
This is what Cambridgeshire wanted. A new upgraded A14 to avoid Huntingdon that the A14 links from Felixstowe to the Midlands, A1(M) & M1 and M6 near Rugby.
Are there plans to do upgrades to the A47 from Great Yarmouth to Acle, Acle-Postwick, Costteey-Kings Lynn, Kings-Lynn-Wisbech-Peterborough and Peterborough-Winsford (A1 junction).
To upgrade parts of the A47 single carriageway to a fully operational dual carriageway main road that East Anglia (Norfolk, and Cambridgeshire) wants. Including adding new segregated junctions with slip roads or large roundabouts to replace the accident prone intercross-section junctions.
However, taking the whole thing in overview, despite moaning over the details, it does look like a fairly decent, straightforward, and long overdue remedy to what is currently a trio of very crappy junctions along the mainline of what's supposed to be a trunk route between East Anglia and the Midlands. So bravo for actually getting it done. Unless of course funding gets whipped away at the last moment, as is so often the case.
This is a really useful video - thank you!
To answer Matt H's query, it's not a motorway because it doesn't have any hard shoulder. Since not having a hard shoulder is one of the main reasons for serious congestion arising from accidents / breakdowns on the existing two carriageway A14 you might wonder, after all this expenditure, not to mention delays, road closures over a four year period whether the whole exercise was worthwhile. I couldn't possibly comment.
M6 between J9 and the M54, though...
Why does it not tell you where the 2,700 speed cameras are!!!!!!!!!!
So for all intents and purposes this is the M14 now? Grade separated, 3 lanes, large radius turns. Whats stops this being a motorway and having blue signs up? Surely that would help drivers out a great deal?
Matt H it is becoming a motorway but the A14(M) the M14 is a proposed motorway in London part of Ringway 1.
There is no hard shoulder
It's technical.
No practical alternatives provided for non-motorway traffic (pedestrians, cyclists, mopeds, learner drivers including cars/trucks/buses/125cc bikes that are otherwise fast enough for motorways but legally prohibited, farm vehicles, all the traction engines going to the Stanford Steam Rally, etc), so it has to technically remain available as a right of way for them, regardless of bad an idea that actually is in reality. Thus, all-purpose road, not motorway.
If there was enough money to provide a 2-lane service road alongside, or even just a single track road with passing places (or make two of them, each 1-way, flanking the A14) and a shared-use pedestrian and cycle path beside it - or the improvement works did a three stage process of building a whole new 3-lane carriageway off to one side (whilst keeping the current road open), then widening the nearer of the existing carriageways (closing that, but running traffic on the new one and the other old one), then finally running motorway-class traffic along the widened carriageways (including "backwards" vs the original flow, on the old side) and keeping the unwidened one as an unclassified 2-lane road - and either shoulders were provided as part of the works, or you turned the entire thing ATM with refuges, then you could quite happily redesignate it as a motorway.
Much like how the A74 was turned into the M6 / M74 from the Cumberland Gap northwards; there's a general-purpose road running alongside the motorway for much of its length, which is essentially one of the old dual carriageways (and in places, probably the original single carriageway from before it even being dualled), and that serves both local traffic and any longer-distance travellers who aren't motorway legal.
Buuuuut little of that has been done along the A14 - not even for the few miles immediately east of Catthorpe where it transitions directly to/from the M6 and M1, and the only non-motorway alternative routes serving the villages that used to be accessible from the original nightmare of a junction (which now get the noise and pollution, but none of the mobility benefits) are quite circuitous yomps through the back lanes. So an all-purpose A-road it must remain, unless/until that situation is remedied.
@@markpenrice6253 The A1307 runs parallel as a local access road. Plus learners are allowed on motorways now and if you're a pedestrian or cyclist going down the A14 then you're an idiot.
I think it’s better to rename the A14 between Cambridge and Huntingdon to the M11 and the part between Cambridge and Felixstowe to the M14.
So true I'm work at cambrisge services and all the mail we receive says M11 not A14 ha
It will not happen. I think your mind is being delusional.
It will never make up for all the closures and delays we have to put up with now especially when you are a shift worker I have had 5 years of closures and diversions and speed restrictions totally fed up with it
TGSUPERCHARGED How about you suck it up and stop being a salty inbred.
Are you planning on providing meaningful signage on the A14 westbound? Currently Felixstowe is signposted from as far as the Catthorpe interchange -- its whole length -- but going west, it just says "The Midlands" and when you pass the A6 Market Harborough turning, the only destination given is "M1 (N), M6" and you only see signs for Birmingham once you join the M6 -- consider that Birmingham is signposted on the M40 from as far south as Denham and on the southbound M6 from Preston. As it leads directly into the M6, the A14 should be signposted for Birmingham at least from Kettering, perhaps all the way to Felixstowe or at least Ipswich (where the A12 to London diverges). The A14/M1/M6 interchange isn't a destination in itself, and now that it's free-flowing, it's even less noticeable. Let's have the places this road goes on the signs, not a mere junction.
Matthew Smith I like the new Catthorpe interchange layout. Shame that you can’t access Swinford village except getting off the next junction on the M6 (Junction 2). Then use the back roads to get to Swinford and other neighbouring villages. Plus it’s where the 3 counties-Northamptonshire, Leicestershire and Warwickshire meet.
A14 W AFTER J28
NEW ROAD LAYOUT
FROM MONDAY 9 DEC
A14 E AFTER J20
NEW ROAD LAYOUT
FROM MONDAY 9 DEC
So, correct me if I'm wrong but all A1307 (old A14 route) traffic from Huntingdon, St Ives, Fenstanton etc all needs to come off at Swavesey even if most of this traffic just want to access the A14 eastbound or the M11. Why the hell didn't you put in a dedicated onslip from A1307 to the A14 eastbound?
You do realise all those housebuilding projects between Godmanchester and Fenstanton will now add to an already busy junction at Swavesey. Already witnessing long delays getting out of Swavesey because - of course everyone has to give way to A1307 traffic that's now having to use the roundabouts.
A14 is just an extension of the M6 and sucks up most of the traffic going to East of England, East of London or the continent. This should have been built decades ago. To be honest though, this should have been a 4 lane motorway like the A1(M) just north of here.
none ofurbizness the A14 between New Ellington Junction and Milton Interchange is becoming a motorway (A14(M)).
Grey and TES PC it’s not now, they withdrew the application so it won’t be a motorway, but rather a “special” A road
Opened December 9, 2019
Some narration and explanation would be really helpful.
the tree planting intiative was obviously given to the lowest tender, 4-5 guys turn up in a tatty transit , poke a hole and push the twig in , no filling back in, AND THEN spray weedkiller all around most have died and the ones which havent are suffocated by the plastic sleeve. none of them are going to grow on a new motorway slope because the water just runs off , (through what is i imagine a very gravelly substrate,) so now we have miles of plastic pipe sticking up, and when the travellers return to cut the grass they dont even pick up the old ones, or any litter .. which are blowing around...i would just rather see grass than plastic everywhere .
Appreciate the video and the improvements. However, I can't help feel that the road needs 4 lanes along the full length. It merges 2 major routes: A1-M11 traffic with A14 traffic. Both routes require AT LEAST 2 lanes each, so why not 4 lanes when they merge? Will preparation be made for easy further widening in future, if necessary? A radical idea, I know!
Can you join the Ermine Street Junction (going to Godmanchester) from Cambridge? It appears they are service roads only. You can heading towards Cambridge. Seems pointless.
Both slip roads on the east side of A1198 are service roads. So you won't be able join A14 EB from A1198 to go to Cambridge. You won't be able to leave A14 WB to get onto A1198.
I noticed this also, bit annoying since I live near Godmanchester so I will have to keep using the old section from Swavesey (The A1307 as it will become), but at least it should be mostly deserted and very few trucks
It doesn’t look like you can get from the A14 east bound onto the A1 south bound or north bound at Brampton hut.
You would turn off the A14 at the new Ellington interchange and use the existing Brampton Hut roundabout.
trickygoose2 I think you still can.
Will the new expressway/motorway have variable speed limit?
I emailed Highways England. They said it is a Smart Motorway 'Ready' project, meaning that they could easily make it a smart motorway with variable speed limits if 'Expressway' legislation passes through parliament.
A-roads that are dual carriageway is 60-70mph. A-roads that are single carriageway are 50-60mph. Motorways are 60-70mph. B-roads are 40-50mph and local roads are 20mph, 30mph, 40mph and 50mph (which varies) including at villages, towns and cities in the UK.
At 8m 02secs would it be clearer to indicate that you can still join Huntingdon Road (heading into Cambridge) off the A14, in between the M11 and the A14? If that's the case? The video implies (at 8m 06secs) that there is no access to the A1307 Huntingdon Road off the A14, as the video only shows the A1307 from Dry Drayton. Also, does this mean that there is no direct route leaving Cambridge on Huntingdon Road onto the A14? The video implies that you would have to take the A1307 to Dry Drayton, and then the local access road to Bar Hill.
I think you can join the A14 from the Huntingdon road by turning right at the second round about - there looks to be a slip road which joins the A14-A14 Freeflow link
You can still get on the A1307 from the A14 Eastbound but there in a new separate slip Road just after the A14 slip.
4:11 What if people need to get to Cambridge, but they could also use A1307 (Old A14) (Btw I'm in 2021 so the Bypass has already been built)
5:21 Look at the road on the left, that's what I was talking about where you have to take the Old A14 to get to Cambridge, so the Old A14 will still be used. So emgrgency vehicles can take the emergency sliproad while others have to go further to get to the Old A14 to get back onto A14/M11 towards Cambridge.
Why not extend the M11 to the M6.
Because they - and moreover, the A11 which (ignoring the more recent spur up to the A14) is the direct continuation of the M11 - don't go anywhere near each other? The western A14 was a wholly new-build route, much like the M1, and the southern part of the M6. There wasn't any other direct connection through the area at the time, i.e. it doesn't shadow or supercede any other existing road. Whereas the M11 follows largely alongside what was the A11 (now somewhat unnecessarily downgraded and disguised under a number of different designations) from where the current road ends at Great Chesterford down into the capital (or at least, terminating at the M25).
The routing of the modern A14 is a bit of a nonsensical mess, and both the M6 diverges somewhat from the A6 south of Manchester (heading back towards it after Walsall, but not quite getting there and leaving that job to the A14 which literally steals some of the A6's old length around Kettering), and the M1 is never really more than distantly parallel to the A1 (but at least does still go in roughly the same direction)... but having the M11 suddenly divert a full ninety degrees from its north-northeast routing and its namesake A-road (whose brief confluence with the A14 is itself _to the northeast,_ whilst crossing over on its way to *Norwich* ... the A11 being the old London-to-Norwich road) to not only run a convenient short spur up the side of Cambridge to reach the A14 westbound, but then strike out on a path that curves even further away towards Rugby, Coventry and Birmingham, would be a magnitude less logical still.
Though it would result in some troublesome junction renumbering, I figure it might work better to extend the M6 designation all the way down to Kettering (so it finally makes sense, particularly if the mainline were to be diverted via the toll road and the original route from M42 to M54 renumbered to something more meaningful) or even the A1 (which would make the existence of two A14s at Huntingdon less of a problem - one could simply become a sliproad... otherwise the northern arm would probably be best taking on the A141 moniker), and then have A14(M) from whichever of those points is chosen out at least as far as Cambridge, maybe even Newmarket (where the A11 departs northwards), after which it can remain A14 without any naming issues whatsoever, and rather less in the way of non motorway traffic causing an issue for long distance travellers to/from Ipswich, so long as a cycle path (maybe with an allowance for genuine mopeds so long as they give way to cycles and pedestrians) is run alongside it to provide proper segregation for the more vulnerable users.
Fucking idiot
Don’t think so. There were plans to extend the M11 to connect with the A15 and to Humber Bridge south of Hull. But yet again that’s just speculation.
YUSKHAN You sounds like a right Knob 🙄
The guided busway is barely visible even though it could still be a railway. But just look at this monstrosity.
Music could be better.Is this the road someone had an accident on back in August 2017 and we sat in our cars for 5 hours!wont be doing that again.
TGSUPERCHARGED Why so salty you knob
1:47 how do I access the services from the A14 westbound then?
At the previous junction you go onto the A1, and from there you can reach the services.
TGSUPERCHARGED is just a salty troll who has no respect for anyone. Yp a nasty s💩t troll.
OK, colour me slightly confused - why are you building in so many perfectly good - and _would_ have been very useful - sliproads, but then barring them off for "emergency use only"? Particularly I can see at least one entire junction that would be considered perfectly in-spec for a lot of common dualled A-roads (and indeed, similar ones are presumably retained on the old mainline) which is _entirely_ "emergency access". Plus another (A1098) which is a limited junction (you can only leave eastbound, or join westbound) even though the tarmac is going to be provided for the opposing manouevres, just in a weirdly snaking arrangement despite the surrounding landscaping suggesting entirely normal straight-ahead alignments, and it would make perfect sense to allow full access instead of crossing traffic having to go all the way up to the old road or find an alternative path through the back lanes.
And is it really the case that if you want to go from the A14 west to A1 south (or A1 north to A14 east), you have to go up to the northwest-most junction, on the A1, and do a full U-turn around the roundabout to head back the way you just came? Even though the emergency slips would seem to offer various ways to avoid having to do that, via either back lanes or a direct link to an existing junction providing access to/from the southern A1 (in the latter case, the emergency slips that go down to the A1514, which otherwise look to be perfectly good connections for that purpose, if needlessly narrow and tight-radius given the space available). Is the idea that anyone wanting to do that will be forced off onto the A428 instead, even though that's only really useful if they're travelling long distance rather than to/from/between any local destinations?
Those things together plus that otherwise vestigial looking "local access road" makes it look like trying to navigate your way to anywhere in the area from outside, using the A14 to get there, or indeed do anything other than travel direct east-west or interchange between the A14 and A1 north will be a confusing nightmare, especially if you don't have a satnav ... or have learned not to entirely trust it when weird-looking routes appear on the screen. For one thing, it looks like in order to get from the westbound carriageway down to Lolworth you now have to make a full 360 degree right turn, followed later by a 270, even though the old left in/left out, or even just the off-slip (as rejoining isn't _quite_ as bad, though still much more convoluted than before), could easily have been retained to link up with the new roadway (which in fairness does at least make access to/from the eastbound side easier).
Incidentally, what's happening to the old road... how much is being retained, in what state, and with what designation? I expect anyone living along its length and that may have made use of it, or visitors to said areas from outside, might like to know. I presume it'll remain as-is, just renumbered, as a slightly lower standard (probably with a needlessly punitive 50 or even 40mph limit, given the usual way of things) access into/through Huntingdon and further up to the A1(M) (...which is another non-safety-related reason it may get slowed: to discourage anyone from cutting off the corner relative to the new route, by making it actually slower to go the old way). I tried to figure it out from the video, running in reverse, but found myself frustrated and instinctively trying to scroll/zoom the virtual map as the image gradually disappeared off the side...
That said, good call on _partly_ getting rid of that hideous old semi-cloverleaf at Cambridge, even if some of it still remains... (the M11 north to A14 east loop... which, in isolation and thus without the weaving that currently results between those vehicles and traffic heading through the A14 west to A14 west "totso", probably won't be any kind of problem any more other than for inattentive drivers of anything with a high centre of gravity). And although the local access road is a bit of a mess, it does at least provide about as many improved routes as it does hampered ones, so it's a net neutral outcome.
Or am I reading it all wrong, and what that's actually there for is to allow a future upgrade - stealth or in plain view - upgrading of the road to A14(M) or even M14, thanks to that (plus the old road) also being a convenient alternative route for non-motorway road users?
They are demolishing the current A14 bridge over the railway station in Huntingdon. All traffic to continue using the A1M will need to follow the new road.
@@Groot-zc5rz Indeed the existing A14 will terminate at the A1198 junction this Monday the 9th December. It forms something of a dead end then for HGV's since they cannot pass though Godmanchester and travelling south on the A1198 doesn't take them anywhere useful at all, only back towards the A428 which they could have been on all along. Be interesting how that pans out. Living adjacent to the old A14 means i'm very much looking forward to the reduced traffic and noise!
Why does the A14 - which carries huge volumes of traffic, especially lorries, from Europe to the rest of the UK - get this drip feed improvement over decades, when other schemes seem to get more preferential treatment?
Because no-one really cares about the truckers or whoever they hold up, and it doesn't go anywhere near London or Dover.
Bring on the cycle rout to bar hill
Difficult to properly visualise the changes planned. Would have been better to include a before and after 2D map as well. Of course, all this would be unnecessary if they would introduce a law whereby lorries and other vehicles, that cannot reach 70mph, are banned from overtaking on dual lane roads! So many of the traffic problems are actually caused by this nuisance.
Completly agree!!
Yeah because the cars are so much more important.
The point is that, over 90 miles (Cambridge to the Midlands), truck "racing" is pointless; you'll get to the Midlands about 3-5 mins quicker... But if a car can get past a truck, he gets there about 13-15 mins quicker. Road haulage IS important, but it is selfish to block the outside lane and potentially impact over a hundred cars that are stuck behind you for a couple of miles (and possibly cause a shunt in the process), just because you think you must overtake another truck that is driving 2-3 mph hour slower than yourself... Because we are now considering "truck platooning", then that implies that we've already accepted that trucks can go at the speed of the slowest truck in the group...
What on earth is wrong with 1 truck overtaking another truck by 0.00000000001mph and holding up the rest of the traffic for half an hour?
The amount of times I overtake cars doing 40-50mph in a my lorry and then they speed up as soon as you start to overtake, I think you're blaming the wrong people
About sodding time.
Huntingdon Town Centre old A14 Viaduct removal proposal is also worth a look th-cam.com/video/MY9XI6-KDX8/w-d-xo.html and assets.highwaysengland.co.uk/roads/road-projects/a14-cambridge-to-huntingdon-improvement/A14+What's+happening+in+Huntingdon+roll-ups+small.pdf
I think its better to increase the speed limit to 120mph to solve congestion issues..
120mph. Are you really dumb.
And how long before it is heavily littered and looking like a linear dustbin and no cleaning from the incompetent Highways England
We get the level of service we are prepared to pay for. Most people will not vote for tax increases.
And it's still fucked up...I dread going through the A14 Cambridge...
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NO BLOODY EXITS BETWEEN BARHILL AND BRAMPTON HUT....WHAT FKN CLOWNS DESIGNED THIS FKN NIGHTMARE???🤪
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