[Talk-GB] Made-up motorway junction names

[Philip Barnes]

On Mon, 2023-01-02 at 15:26 +0000, SK53 wrote:
> I've been passing through that junction as a driver for 40 years.
> Never once have I heard it called the "Heath Interchange", similarly,
> for the "Whetstone Interchange" and "Kirkby Muxloe Interchange"
> neither of which are intuitive names (if I wanted to clarify which
> junction to someone I'd use something like Leicester Forest or
> Aylestone for the former, and A46/Fosse Way for the latter).
> Trigpoint will know better what it is known as locally. 
> 
Neither are locally refered to by those names. Kirby Muxloe just sounds
like somebody looked for a nearby name on the map. To me, as a local,
calling J21 Whetstone just seems ridiculous, its not even close. 

There does seem to be a problem with naming thing, an unnamed road
appears in editors as a warning giving the impression they should be
named even though, outside settlements, a lot do not have names.

Phil (trigpoint)