Where is a3 road

On the right is the northbound A3, with signs telling traffic the second Chalton Lane exit is coming up. The junction in the middle of the picture has since been closed and replaced with a flyover further ahead.

The vehicles on the far right are using the newer southbound A3, which takes a much smoother alignment which northbound eventually copied. Looking north at the A31 from the Hogs Back, in Work is taking place on the chalk embankment. Looking south at the junction of the A3 and the A in Send in , with a pre-Worboys road sign.

A three-lane "suicide lane" section appears to be coming to an end. This is , and realignment works have been taking place. The sign advertises Notre Dame School. Another view of the Little White Lion. The sign on the right says, "Are all your lights working? Check often". Looking west out of Cobham again, with a Ministry of Transport sign explaining the roadworks on Pains Hill.

Traffic appears to be giving way to the roadworks. This photo marks the end of phase one. Looking north along the Kingston Bypass in Meeten's Motor Mecca is in the distance.

The road has a concrete carriageway and a narrow local access path. A number of old road signs approaching Shannon Corner: speed limit, traffic signals ahead and a pre-Worboys direction sign, with Decca in the distance. In the distance, another sign warns that the road beyond here is single carriageway.

The layout of the Bushey Road junction with the A3 in Here the dual carriageway comes to an end. Since then most of the road has been upgraded to dual carriageway. The section at Hindhead was the last trunk section of single carriageway outside TfL control, until replaced by the Hindhead Tunnel in London Bridge is one of the oldest crossings in Britain. The current incaration was finished in It first opened in 50AD. Wisley Interchange is the A3 interchange with the M It is a roundabout junction and it was built in early s.

The Hindhead Bypass and Tunnel provide full grade-separation of all the roads between Thursley and the Hampshire border. The old route from Hindhead Crossroads to Bramshott Chase has been renumbered as the A , while the northern section has been removed and is now a cycle path. In December , it was proposed that the A3 could be upgraded to an expressway as part of the proposals to introduce a new type of road network.

The proposal includes different expressway types with an aspiration that the highest quality expressways will be given motorway designation and an Ax M number. A3 Location Map geo. Main Article: A3 route. Main Article: A3 history. Main Article: London Bridge. Main Article: Wisley Interchange. Main Article: Hindhead Tunnel. Navigation menu Personal tools Log in. Namespaces Page Discussion Discover. Views Read View source View history. Although, its only the hard shoulder that's 12 inches too narrow stopping it being a motorway.

As someone who grew up just yards from the London end of the A3, I have a certain fondness for this road. The A3 M always fascinated me as a youth. I think - from memory, in the seventies - that the junction numbers were letters. Can't be sure, but I was given an old AA book in the Seventies and remember poring wistfully over the motorway maps before I could drive in the genesis of my fascination with roads. I'd just like to point out that the junctions weren't actually "numbered" with letters - it was just the AA's way of telling junctions apart on motorways where there were no numbers!

The A3 M is my favourite motorway as its easy to use, modern great bridges take Portsdown hill for example and the lanes are wide. It is not pathetic. The A3 has just been done up in Waterlooville and people should be able to tell between a 'A' road and a motorway.

It was going to join the M27 but the section between the A3 and the M27 was not wide enough to be classed as a motorway so its part of the A27 instead.

The builders probably forgot to modify the sign. The motorway is really spectacular at night with all those catseyes! So it's not pathetic, short but not pathetic. I have to agree with the other contributors here. There's nothing really wrong or pathetic with this motorway at all. It has a proper hard shoulder the whole way, relatively good surface and provides a useful by-pass to the A3 corridor through Cosham and Waterlooville.

The only weaknesses are the restricted access to junctions 1 and 4, as well as the lack of free flowing link to the western part of the A27 traffic has to turn off at junction five and go through a series of roundabouts.

I'm sure when I was younger the A3 M had no numbered junctions at all, I think they only came along in the mid 90s. That might explain why the traffic is high. The superstore and housing estate are to the right hand side of the Jct 4 off-slip - the the left lie several more housing estates within the Portsmouth City boundary.

The comments about the southbound exit onto the A27 being listed as M27 are a bit mean-spirited. The A3's viability as a South Coast-M25 route has long been blighted by the infamous 'Devil's Punchbowl' section around Hindhead, where the otherwise unbroken dual carriageway is squeezed through a lethal single track carousel around a mountainside that brings everyone and everything grinding to an unceremonious halt.

The long-standing plans to construct a dual carriageway tunnel under the Devil's Punchbowl should finally commence in according to the Highways Agency. When that dualled link is completed, the A3 corridor will provide a high-speed alternative to the M3 and the A3 M 's current pathetic status may be called into question! I confirm that work clearing the portal entrances has indeed started on the A3 bypass under Hindhead [March ] - completion of the tunnel itself is due to be open to traffic by I use the A3 M every day and find it an adequate motorway.