Iv driven so many times on the Old A30 and I didn’t even realise until watching this video. The people I feel sorry for with the development of the now New A30 is the cafes and pubs and restaurants and fuel stations which my god they must of suffered financially because it. I was only from 11 months in feb 1998 to 2 years 11 months in feb 2000 when all was completed. Why wasn’t I born in 1990 haha 😂. Honestly such a time capsule video of Devon’s major roads. I must drive the full length of the Old A30 after seeing this. Luke, 26 from Devon, just too many years too young to actually remember ye olde A30.
I have been lucky enough to drive this route before during and after the new A30 had been completed so this brings back a few memories thanks for posting
As I recall, the pressure was on to complete this stretch of road in time for the total eclipse on 11 August 1999, which was going to be visible only from Cornwall; the authorities expected a flood of traffic trying to get through to see it. (In the event, of course, it was a cloudy day.)
Thats right...Swampy tried to stop the new road...a lot of it is unrecognisable at the Exeter end now...the old A30 is used to feed the many new roads in Cranbrook now....
I remember this in the early 90s , busy and slow as hell . Last time i travelled it i was 16 on a 50cc motorcycle in 1995 . Its hard to imagine now that honiton to exeter takes about 12 minutes . I cant beleive all the businesses that are gone . This the problem with getting a bypass. It bypasses the local economy
My computer found difficulty in running this film, so considerable time is needed to see it right thru. The 'menu' is a helpful tool. From Honiton to Long Range, one sees the work of the generations: Iron bridge, but the railway of 1860; Waterloo Bridge, the work of the turnpike trusts of the 1780s; the haul up to Long Range on what was once a Roman causeway built perhaps in Jesus' time. And now, all along, the 20th century's adaptations for the motor car. What next?
Iv driven so many times on the Old A30 and I didn’t even realise until watching this video. The people I feel sorry for with the development of the now New A30 is the cafes and pubs and restaurants and fuel stations which my god they must of suffered financially because it. I was only from 11 months in feb 1998 to 2 years 11 months in feb 2000 when all was completed. Why wasn’t I born in 1990 haha 😂. Honestly such a time capsule video of Devon’s major roads. I must drive the full length of the Old A30 after seeing this. Luke, 26 from Devon, just too many years too young to actually remember ye olde A30.
I have been lucky enough to drive this route before during and after the new A30 had been completed so this brings back a few memories thanks for posting
As I recall, the pressure was on to complete this stretch of road in time for the total eclipse on 11 August 1999, which was going to be visible only from Cornwall; the authorities expected a flood of traffic trying to get through to see it. (In the event, of course, it was a cloudy day.)
I used to take the A30 in the 1970s and 1980s aaah the golden days of my youth
Thats right...Swampy tried to stop the new road...a lot of it is unrecognisable at the Exeter end now...the old A30 is used to feed the many new roads in Cranbrook now....
Anyone remember the Fairmile inn and the Rockbeare Straight with the speed traps and 40 mile per hour speed limit....Bob...Paignton....
I remember this in the early 90s , busy and slow as hell . Last time i travelled it i was 16 on a 50cc motorcycle in 1995 .
Its hard to imagine now that honiton to exeter takes about 12 minutes .
I cant beleive all the businesses that are gone . This the problem with getting a bypass. It bypasses the local economy
Interesting film...this became a ghost road in late 1999...
My computer found difficulty in running this film, so considerable time is needed to see it right thru. The 'menu' is a helpful tool. From Honiton to Long Range, one sees the work of the generations: Iron bridge, but the railway of 1860; Waterloo Bridge, the work of the turnpike trusts of the 1780s; the haul up to Long Range on what was once a Roman causeway built perhaps in Jesus' time. And now, all along, the 20th century's adaptations for the motor car. What next?