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Found this on the quote you happy site when looking for a quote.

"One of our A-roads is missing!
Article date: 26/08/2005 17:15:13
Britain's roads may come in for a fair bit of stick – pot holed, congested and badly signposted as they are – but at the very least they don’t generally disappear.

Or do they? The government this week has issued a public appeal for information on 21 missing A-roads that, ummm, have apparently gone missing.

A shamefaced Department for Transport (DfT) has been forced to confess that the location of 21 numbered A-roads is a complete mystery to them, the paperwork having apparently gone missing in an office renovation.

Whether the DfT has consulted an AA atlas is not known.

The DfT has found general clues about the routes of 17 of the roads. For example, it knows the A622 went from Bakewell to Hathersage, in Derbyshire's Peak District, but can't say which of today's routes between the towns it was.

Precise details about the A108, A122, A150, A175, A241, A263, A294, A333, A364, A398, A434, A440, A471, A492, A524, A564, A604, A613, A648 and A668 have also gone, and any motorists with information are urged to get in touch.

A Government officer said: "I've been unable to locate a record of the routes these numbers were allocated to." He suggested the details may be found in the National Archives at Kew, London, where millions of secret papers are stored.
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Someone please send them a map.

SABRE has full listings of all of these routes and I think has sent (or will be sending) a letter off to the DfT.

<checks calendar> Nope, not April 1st.

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Thats the text of the article -WASN'T TOO LONG THATS WHY I COPIED THE TEXT.

And here's the link - http://www.norwichunion.com/motor/motor ... =430016517

So we can't trust the Dft WITH OUR ROADS NOW??

Although attempts to contact the DfT about this by e-mail and telephone drew a blank as it proved impossible to find anyone who took responsibility for it

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Just read the last bit about Kew again - is that why - because these roads are "secret"

Haven't these people professed to having smething to do with road safety too??

Just to follow this up - found this bit

http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/news/59865 ... r_dft.html

he Bloke said -"I knew all along roughly which routes had once carried the mislaid numbers, but I wanted the Department for Transport to come clean that it was clueless."


Priceless.


Founnd it looking for what i thought i'd heard on the telly about the end of the road for DfT - ANYNEWS ON THAT?