Club Arnage

I know there's another thread open somewhere, but this is just to tell you that the new Rouen - Alencon section of the A 28 was opened today.
The Eccomoy - Tours section will open in December.

Please, somebody make my day, tell me it goes all the way to the Calais road

Sorry to ruin your day Lorry, but you still have to go through Rouen, or cross the Seine at the Pont de Brotonne south of Yvetot.

the road of death, the N138.

Whats the road over Pont De Brotonne like - is this to be a CA recommended route?

I hadn't realised there was a bridge between Tancarville and Rouen, I thought it was all National Park

Hopefully the new road will keep the trucks away from the N138?? It'll also make the trip home on Monday much easier!!

I like that information just above "Pass Rouen"

I think it's even funnier that it tells Steve it will only cost him 11.48 Euros in petrol!!!!!  (http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/24.gif)

The bridge is by a village called Caudebec
If the road through Rouen is clear then this route is slower, and longer, however if you are going to hit Rouen during the morning or evening rush hour it is worth considering. Some extra tolls are involved, can't remember how much but it's not huge, as the motorway to Yvetot is paege, and there is a toll on the bridge itself.
Road south, D490/D913 to Bourg-Achard, is a pleasant run down the side of the Foret de Brotonne, part of the National Park. From here you have an option of dropping down to Bourgtheroulde to pick up the N138, or hopefully access the new motorway fairly easily near Bourg-Achard.
N.B. This is not a fast route, but prehaps more relaxing than a traffic jam in Rouen.

fewer chances of map reading cockups

You'd think they could have got that right, wouldn't you? When our ministry built the first motorway it was intended as a by-pass round Preston.

If ever a place needed by-passing more than Preston...

 ???

I think the buggery bit  is when you hit that bit where you have to filter right, you're trapped in the left lane and have to cut across to the right - woooaaaaahhh! :o :o

Isn't it to the left?  or is that coming back - its a real pain with a caravan, and yes I know we get in the way, but only at Rouen

What are you saying about my lovely city Perdu ?

I wouldn't want to live anywhere else, thank you !


Hmm, Chris. I think I was saying that Rouen needed by-passing more than Preston. Wasn't I?

I do remember the excitement when I was a kid when travelling to Scotland in dad's Austin Ruby, year after year to see how much further the "New" motorway had spread towards the climb over Shap. (Travelling at an exciting 35mph to Bonny Scotland every year) Even when we had the A40 Devon or the A35 each year was an adventure.

And we used to stop at Preston for a cuppa before the By - pass was opened, I quite liked it in a young kid on holiday sort of way...


So to paraphrase my (rich) hero Michael Winner, "don't take on so, it's only a commercial"

 8)

I gave up trying to read a map and driving at the same time - also no longer let the wife look at the map and say things like 'You have to turn left somewhere up ahead', 'This road isn't on the map' and 'I think you should have turned left back there'.  Just keep a list of major towns along the route, follow any signs for the same and if in doubt keep straight on.  Crap advice?  Maybe, but it works for me.  I think the buggery bit  is when you hit that bit where you have to filter right, you're trapped in the left lane and have to cut across to the right - woooaaaaahhh! :o :o

I think if you cut to the left you cross the central reservation - I've never tried it myself, but .... :o :o :o

ok i am getting a bit confused now, not to hard i hear you say

where abouts do we pick the new road up? is it before Rouen or is it after the roundabout with all the plastic cows on it.

Andy

For those people wanting to come with their spouses

........, so you won't have to drive across Chateau du Loir and its memorious traffic jam.