PU's A14/M11 thread got me thinking about other useful alternative routes. A few starters:-
M1/A50 instead of M6 to Stoke and beyond.
B430 through Middleton Stoney and Weston on the Green instead of M40 to link the A43/A34
County roads via Litchborough/Canons Ashby/Moreton Pinckney/Thorpe Mandeville to M40/J11 instead ogf the A43 between the A5 and M40. This was the pre 1990 route of the B4525 from Northampton to Banbury and is still through signed in places.
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Thanks - I've used the first two of those when Trafficmaster warns me off the motorways in question.
There's also:
Old A33 instead of M3 between Basingstoke and Winchester
From South and West to Cambridge, Bury St Eds and anywhere up the A11 - M25 / A1 / A505 instead of M25 / M11. Best way now they've at last bypassed Baldock, and it seems that the mania for digging up the M11 near the Stansted turnoff is insatiable and chronic. It also avoids a bit of M25, which can only be a good thing.
M1 / A1 / A68 instead of M6 /A74 etc from the South to Edinburgh - a bit slower though not as much as you'd think, and much more scenic.
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