Motoring Oddities EP5 - The Longest Straight Road in the UK - Lincolnshire

#lincolnshire #roads #travel
If you're looking for an arrow straight road to test those high speed vehicles.. the A15 would have been perfect, if it wasn't for the speed cameras.

Today, not only are we exploring the straightest road the UK has to offer, we're doing so in style with a Ford Mustang! I might have taken a little inspiration from a Top Gear episode of yester year..

Special thanks to the Red Arrows display team for their brief appearances.

[royfearn]

ANY sausage is fine, provided it's English, local and made by a master butcher.

[SirReginaldBlomfield]

DO NOT overtake on this road. There used to be an ambulance at caenby corner cafe all day and sometimes a hearse for scooping up impatient boy racer teenagers possessing a shiny new licence. 😁

[steve]

It's the straightest of roads in the flattest of counties, but that's not to say it's a flat road. There's plenty of hills and dips on it that can easily hide an oncoming artic and someone doing an overtake at the wrong moment. That's pretty much the reason for the cameras and speed traps, and it's happened a lot of times. Might be worth adding a bit to the video about this roads terrible safety record. I don't want to come across as boring, I'm a complete petrolhead myself (cars and bikes), but this isn't a road for testing a high speed vehicle.

[ChrisSidwellSmith]

I'd argue that the Fosse Way at 200+ miles and almost straight is a contender. It has been broken up with the odd bypass and traffic calming scheme but it is a spectacular straight road. I used to take it from Leicester to Cirencester when working there on a site.

[PiousMoltar]

"It's home to cities such as Lincoln", you should have stopped there, I'm pretty sure it's their only city, Scunthorpe and Grantham are towns aren't they?

Now let's take a moment to laugh at Suffolk with its zero cities. They should make Bury St Edmunds a city, just because I know that will piss off Ipswich. And it's always good to piss off Ipswich.

[paulroper]

I drive along this section of A15 quite often and it's a absolute pig of a road to drive. Although it's straight it's also very undulating making it difficult to overtake slower traffic. Also don't worry about the speed cameras driving along this section of road during the day. If you get above 40 mph you're do well because the amount of lorries and tractors that use this road has to be seen. Not a good road to test your high speed vehicle on believe me!

[thetessellater]

Surely, this is the Roman road Ermine Street; but no mention of that? (I live near Watling Street, pretty straight too)

[alandavies]

We used to have a charity motorcycle run known as the Route 66 run, going from New York in Lincolnshire, to California (Yarmouth) in Norfolk. A pleasant summer run.

[Ingens_Scherz]

Ermine Street. Direct to retirement for any long-serving legionary from Londinium to Lindum Colonia as the corvus fugit.
Dulcis.

[martinjones]

The Fosse Way from Moreton in the Marsh up to the point where it hits Watling Street is 40 miles dead straight with just one minor diversion at Brinklow.

[davidbrown]

Lincolnshire sausages are by far the best. My sister moved to Bigglewade early in her marriage but always came back to Lincolonshire to get her sausages.

[elelegidosf]

Padding the video is entirely acceptable for this subject. It's a road that is long and straight with nothing to see on it. There's not much more you could say about it.

[BostonUnitedFM]

There's another straight road in Lincolnshire, between the villages of Frithville and Revesby Bridge, north-west of Boston. That's known as the 7-mile straight (although seems to be closer to 6).
P.S. Boston lost it's title of the fattest town

[streaky]

A15 forms part of Ermine Street which runs all the way from London (somewhere outside Liverpool Street train station) all the way to York - it was the M1 of it's day.

[potaz]

Lol... " Wish You Were Here" theme music at the end 😂😂.
Looking forward to a motorways abroad section 👌

[nickp]

Speed cameras aren't a problem. Given that you can never do more than 40mph due to all the HGVs.

[stanstevens]

As a resident of Boston (one of the slimmer ones I might add), I can share that one of the town's claims to fame is that the Pilgrim Fathers left from near here, or there abouts, to head off to America. So yes, Boston is famous for a group of people who were desperate to leave!

[MummaBear]

Whoooo. I bet the red arrows weren't cheap 😂

[razzle]

“…hosted over 70 airfields. SEVENTY! In ONE county! No wonder we won”. 😅😉✌️

[DonDon-dfie]

I took my first Aston here and got pulled over for being too excessive with my speed and they were more interested in the car, just got a warning but they still wanted me to floor it off so they could hear the exhaust.