[Talk-GB] Made-up motorway junction names

[Ed Loach]

Mark wrote:

> On the contrary, I'd say that the police and highways
professionals
> are
> precisely the kind of sources that are most valuable when it comes
> to
> colloquial names of things.

You’d think that the highways professionals who put temporary speed
limit notices in newspapers would at least get the name correct.
This one was mentioned in a local paper yesterday:

"An order is in place to temporarily introduce a 40mph speed
restriction in that length of A133 Clacton Road, Elmstead in the
District of Tendring, from its junction with Carpenters Lane to its
junction with Elmstead Road a distance of approximately 715m in both
directions.

The speed restriction is scheduled to commence on January, 2 for 547
days."

But the section of A133 between Carpenters Lane and Elmstead Road is
called Colchester Road (there are houses on the section with postal
addresses that confirm it)
https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/51.8809/0.9695
I see Google Maps has it wrong - perhaps they used that to look up
the name.

Ed