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That's exactly what I used to do and exactly what I wanted to create!
November 15, 2025 at 6:39 PM
That's exactly what I used to do and exactly what I wanted to create!
Incidentally - you may have seen it but a while ago I wrote a piece about carriageway letters and marker post numbering too… another clever system imperfectly maintained! www.roads.org.uk/blog/looking...
Looking out for number one
Markerposts are meant to start at one end of a road and count the kilometres to the other. But things are never that simple.
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November 13, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Incidentally - you may have seen it but a while ago I wrote a piece about carriageway letters and marker post numbering too… another clever system imperfectly maintained! www.roads.org.uk/blog/looking...
It’s incredibly clever!
November 13, 2025 at 8:59 AM
It’s incredibly clever!
Thanks for the link!
November 12, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Thanks for the link!
The maintenance cost doesn’t bear thinking about, nor does the potential effect on public transport funding in London in a world where all this had to be maintained.
November 10, 2025 at 11:08 AM
The maintenance cost doesn’t bear thinking about, nor does the potential effect on public transport funding in London in a world where all this had to be maintained.
Ah OK, not the same junction - but many of the same places. Would be amazing to find out how far it extended and how many signs there were.
November 10, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Ah OK, not the same junction - but many of the same places. Would be amazing to find out how far it extended and how many signs there were.
Amazing! From memory seems to be the same junction - certainly the same destinations.
November 10, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Amazing! From memory seems to be the same junction - certainly the same destinations.