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A joint statement from Devon and Cornwall Police and Devon County Council Highways just before 22:00 on Wednesday said: "We are aware of some motorists being stationary for long periods of time ...
National Highways says 90 minute delays have been reported on the road. ... Devon and Somerset Fire Service said crews were called to the westbound A30 near Whiddon Down at about 14:20 GMT on ...
At Whiddon Down the road previously had a roundabout, known as the Merrymeet junction, [4] but was replaced in December 2006 by a split-level junction allowing the A30 dual carriageway to run unimpeded by traffic from the A382, in what had been a major cause of traffic. [5] [6] The dual carriageway continues through Cornwall.
Atlantic Highway is the name given to a section of the A39, as it passes from the North Devon Link Road at Barnstaple in Devon until it reaches the A30 at Fraddon in Cornwall. [5] It is so called, as it is the main road (it was a trunk road until 2002) from mid-Cornwall to North Devon and follows the line of the Atlantic Ocean's coast.
Traffic and congestion is a regular problem along the A303, particularly near Stonehenge. Since the 1950s, the A303 has been criticised for being inadequate for the level of traffic along it. In 1959, it was reported that a typical queue for holiday traffic along the road could be as much as 15 miles (24 km). [ 36 ]
Devon Air Ambulance (DAA) experienced "another busy month" tackling 174 incidents in December, according to the charity's mission statistics. ... The charity said it attended 30 road traffic ...
A traffic camera is a video camera which observes vehicular traffic on a road. Typically, traffic cameras are put along major roads such as highways, freeways, expressways and arterial roads, and are connected by optical fibers buried alongside or under the road, with electricity provided either by mains power in urban areas, by solar panels or other alternative power sources which provide ...
The road mainly follows the route of the road built by the Newton Bushell Turnpike Trust, one of a number of turnpike trusts operating in Devon, who upgraded, built, and maintained a number of trunk roads, which were often poorly served by the parish councils who were responsible for road maintenance but often prioritised roads within the parish rather than those between parishes.