21-08-2021, 10:49 PM
Thanks Joe
When I was a boy and when running the Seven as everyday transport from all four main centres in the 60s, many of our main roads were much as your photo. Trucks were very restricted by licemsing in favour of rail. So quite satisfying to drive at the then still common 45 mph or so, but there was a lot of dangerous overtaking with crowding in and oncoming vehicles. The road toll was much greater than today with half the population and far less car use. For such roads now generally have to hunt out routes which go nowhere significant. We do not have the huge selection of alternative routes between centres and villages as in much of UK. And roadside trees extensively removed. For many main roads and not just motorways the countryside has now been extensively reshaped which makes for boring travel with little feel for the natural contours.
When I was a boy and when running the Seven as everyday transport from all four main centres in the 60s, many of our main roads were much as your photo. Trucks were very restricted by licemsing in favour of rail. So quite satisfying to drive at the then still common 45 mph or so, but there was a lot of dangerous overtaking with crowding in and oncoming vehicles. The road toll was much greater than today with half the population and far less car use. For such roads now generally have to hunt out routes which go nowhere significant. We do not have the huge selection of alternative routes between centres and villages as in much of UK. And roadside trees extensively removed. For many main roads and not just motorways the countryside has now been extensively reshaped which makes for boring travel with little feel for the natural contours.