At lunchtime, to be precise.
We're referring to the number of days since the Northern Link Road opened. Just in case someone’s unfamiliar with the road, it links the farmers’ mart just north of the town with Lôn Parcwr and on to the so-called Briec roundabout. Commissioned and paid for by the former Welsh Development Agency, the intention was to open land by Glasdir for residential development and the fields opposite for commercial purposes. And to drive traffic directly to Tesco. The WDA has achieved two of these three objectives.
Most people call it "the by-pass". It was never intended as such. While it avoids traffic having to use the residential Denbigh Road/Borthyn, rather than by-passing anything, it just delivers motorists to a different point in town. One reason why the WDA took care never to refer to it as a "by-pass" was because traders felt it would encourage people to skip town or shop at Tesco. Except, without the link road, cars would arrive at Tesco and still avoid the town centre by using Borthyn and Park Road.
Something's happened to the link road, this year. No, it hasn't been named (and we suggested some possible titles, in 2006). It has, however, become the A525. The Ordnance Survey has removed the A525 from Borthyn and instead put it along the "by-pass". Makes sense.
Except that the OS is a little previous, it seems. Signage on the "by-pass" itself and its approaches suggests that the A525 remains where it always used to be—along Borthyn. A telephone call to the Council put me through to the highways depot just off the "by-pass" and they confirmed that the "by-pass" actually remains as it always was. It is not the A525.
In an attempt to get a definitive answer, I turned to the final arbiter in such matters. Google. It was only a couple of months ago, earlier this year, that Google Local deigned to map the complete "by-pass" at all, and it still has no Street View of it. What Google does show is that Borthyn remains the A525. Proof positive, then, that the OS is wrong. For the time being?
We're referring to the number of days since the Northern Link Road opened. Just in case someone’s unfamiliar with the road, it links the farmers’ mart just north of the town with Lôn Parcwr and on to the so-called Briec roundabout. Commissioned and paid for by the former Welsh Development Agency, the intention was to open land by Glasdir for residential development and the fields opposite for commercial purposes. And to drive traffic directly to Tesco. The WDA has achieved two of these three objectives.
Most people call it "the by-pass". It was never intended as such. While it avoids traffic having to use the residential Denbigh Road/Borthyn, rather than by-passing anything, it just delivers motorists to a different point in town. One reason why the WDA took care never to refer to it as a "by-pass" was because traders felt it would encourage people to skip town or shop at Tesco. Except, without the link road, cars would arrive at Tesco and still avoid the town centre by using Borthyn and Park Road.
Something's happened to the link road, this year. No, it hasn't been named (and we suggested some possible titles, in 2006). It has, however, become the A525. The Ordnance Survey has removed the A525 from Borthyn and instead put it along the "by-pass". Makes sense.Except that the OS is a little previous, it seems. Signage on the "by-pass" itself and its approaches suggests that the A525 remains where it always used to be—along Borthyn. A telephone call to the Council put me through to the highways depot just off the "by-pass" and they confirmed that the "by-pass" actually remains as it always was. It is not the A525.
In an attempt to get a definitive answer, I turned to the final arbiter in such matters. Google. It was only a couple of months ago, earlier this year, that Google Local deigned to map the complete "by-pass" at all, and it still has no Street View of it. What Google does show is that Borthyn remains the A525. Proof positive, then, that the OS is wrong. For the time being?
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