He speaks very fast, doesn't he?

It's 300 metres long.

The Call of the Wendigo wrote:

It's 300 metres long.

Does it have a service station?

I've been on that Baillieston roundabout, when I came back to Scotland the eastern way and had to go across on the M8 to get to Glasgow.

https://pathetic.org.uk/current/a8m_glasgow/

I tried out the A65/A660 traverse yesterday - it was a big mistake, I had to wait for ages at the traffic lights at Ilkley. That place needs a bypass baht delay.

Fangirl Three wrote:

I tried out the A65/A660 traverse yesterday - it was a big mistake, I had to wait for ages at the traffic lights at Ilkley. That place needs a bypass baht delay.

Looking at the map, is that the Settle/Skipton route? I've never thought of that as a traverse from one side of the country to the other, between the M6 and the M1/A1.

It looks like you might have gone through Otley - I was there just a few weeks ago - it has a 20p shop! It's also where the legendary Tittybottle Park is.

Did you go around the outer ring road of Leeds or past Harewood House on the.... A659? I was on that road just last week!

EDIT: Funny that Otley has got a bypass but the nearby bigger and better-known Ilkley hasn't. Perhaps Ilkley doesn't have the room what with it being tightly squished in between hills.

Butterfield wrote:

Fangirl Three wrote:

I tried out the A65/A660 traverse yesterday - it was a big mistake, I had to wait for ages at the traffic lights at Ilkley. That place needs a bypass baht delay.

Looking at the map, is that the Settle/Skipton route? I've never thought of that as a traverse from one side of the country to the other, between the M6 and the M1/A1.

I'm creative at finding traverses. I've got my eye on one that exploits the new A555 dual carriageway past Manchester airport to get onto the A6/A623/A619 route through Chesterfield.

There's also a Sedbergh-Leyburn one on the A684, which from the map looks pretty, but way too much hard work to be useful.

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It looks like you might have gone through Otley

Indeed I did!

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Did you go around the outer ring road of Leeds or past Harewood House on the.... A659? I was on that road just last week!

I went through Bramhope on the A660 and then round aforesaid outer ring road. Our paths must have crossed at some point.

Fangirl Three wrote:

I went through Bramhope on the A660 and then round aforesaid outer ring road. Our paths must have crossed at some point.

According to my calculations, our paths should have crossed on this roundabout on the outskirts of Leeds - me going from north to south, you from east to west/west to east, whichever way you were travelling.

I've had my little Fiat for 8 years now.

Butterfield wrote:

Fangirl Three wrote:

I went through Bramhope on the A660 and then round aforesaid outer ring road. Our paths must have crossed at some point.

According to my calculations, our paths should have crossed on this roundabout on the outskirts of Leeds - me going from north to south, you from east to west/west to east, whichever way you were travelling.

I was going west to east. So that roundabout became a temporary spiritual centre of the NHOTW!

I was hoping it would have a name but it just seems to be called the 'A61/A6120 roundabout'.

Sadly I'm unlikely to revisit it - if I ever take the A65 again I'll go the Harrogate way after Skipton.

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I've had my little Fiat for 8 years now.

Happy cariversary.

Fangirl Three wrote:

if I ever take the A65 again I'll go the Harrogate way after Skipton.

Going that way you'd go directly past the top secret Menwith Hill and its giant golf ball satellite dish thingys.

Street View from 2008 - trees now shield inquisitive passing eyes!










https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Menwith_Hill

Oh, I don't fancy it now. Apparently if you stop outside, the police come out and threaten to arrest you if you don't leave.

I'll stick to the A66 in future. I only took the A65 because I wanted to stop at a McDonalds, and it was before 11 when I went past the Carlisle one, so I stayed on the M6 for the Killingworth Lake one. (I contemplated hanging on till I got to the one at the Leeming Bar rest stop, but it would have been 1.30 by then).

Anyway, I wish I hadn't now, because my garlic bites were stodgy, the fries were lukewarm and lacked crispness, and they'd run out of napkins.

Isn't it just a field covered in massive puffballs?

Fangirl Three wrote:

(I contemplated hanging on till I got to the one at the Leeming Bar rest stop, but it would have been 1.30 by then).

I can't be done with services that are a mile off the motorway and round loads of roundabouts. Especially when you have to go in the total opposite direction of travel to get to it! I'm all for the old fashioned ones with direct slip roads and a footbridge linking the two sides.

EDIT: The only exception to this is if I've got to get petrol then I'll happily wander a handful of miles off the motoway in search of cheaper fuel.

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I can't be done with services that are a mile off the motorway and round loads of roundabouts.

I concur. I never stop at Ferrybridge services for that reason, despite the tempting signs that say 'With access to all routes'.

I do however often get petrol at the Exelby truck stop, which is at the same junction as Leeming Bar but in the other direction, and only about 500 metres away.

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EDIT: The only exception to this is if I've got to get petrol then I'll happily wander a handful of miles off the motoway in search of cheaper fuel

Now in theory I agree with that too. And my strip maps are marked with all petrol stations close enough from the main road. But in practice I usually choose a service area, because the toilets are better. A lot of petrol stations have toilets now, but some of them are not very well maintained

Spoiler alert - I thought the white van was going to make it with just a scare for the driver, but no, straight into the field gate opposite.

The local bricklayer must be making a fortune.