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Apologies that this isn't a subject about Leeds but I thought id get away with it putting it in the general chat section.

In the 80s and 90s when I used to go to Scarborough on the A64, at around about where you passed York there used to be some traffic lights with a junction to allow traffic coming down from the right onto the A64 so on occasion you had to stop when they were on red. I asked someone recently where these were situated exactly and my friend seems to think it is where the big Monks cross roundabout is now on the A64 but on that roundabout there is only a left turn and straight on (to carry on to scarborough) and I remember the reason for the original lights was for traffic to filter onto the A64 from the right, plus i thought the lights were before where that roundabout is now anyway.

Does anyone recall that set of lights on the A64 about 20yrs ago?

I think you are referring to Copmanthorpe which was this side of the old pre by-pass A64 turn off into York. Given it was national speed limit on a dual carriageway (70 mph) it must have had one of the longest amber/neutral periods. The only other comparison I can think of was the A62 in the vicinity of Brough into/out of Hull where again there was ( I think it has also gone) a traffic light controlled junction on what in all but name was urban motorway.

It was odd cos the traffic lights were just there on the A64. I remember on a few occasions having to stop to let traffic across. It was like a crossroads, what I remember anyway but felt it wasn't as far as where the Monks Cross roundabout is now and i dont think it was where the roundabout is cos at the otherside of that roundabout the A64 drops to a single lane. Ill google where you said at Copmanthorpe.

Several serious accidents at the Copmanthorpe lightc

The road was remodelled mid to late nineties from memory.

From memory the Copmanthorpe junction was a cross road but far from perpedicualr. If you take the A64 as east-west (and it my not have been at the junction, then the A64 was from quarter past to quarter to and the junction was pretty much 10 past to 20 to on a clock face. The 10 past (north side) had a pub in the small island in the tight corner defined by the junction.

tyke bhoy wrote:From memory the Copmanthorpe junction was a cross road but far from perpedicualr. If you take the A64 as east-west (and it my not have been at the junction, then the A64 was from quarter past to quarter to and the junction was pretty much 10 past to 20 to on a clock face. The 10 past (north side) had a pub in the small island in the tight corner defined by the junction.

Your right, it wasnt perpendicular so you know where I mean It was as you were travelling east towards Scarborough on the A64 if you were sat at the lights the traffic coming down from your right were coming at an angle.The traffic lights were a very tall set so you could see them from the distance. Are them roads that lead onto the A64 still there,disappeared or have been made into a flyover?
Ive done a pic, sorry im rubbish at drawing haha!!

I think this is what I was on about!!

I think this is the location. https://goo.gl/maps/6MzNTudkPgG2 The pub I recall to the south side is labelled Ainsty Ales and Top Lane has been redirected to then run parallel to the A64 before cutting under. The slip road opposite was the other leg of the crossroads although I don't actually recall that being the A64 exit for southwest York