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2.5 Engineering Standards
The A2 was originally constructed as a three lane dual carriageway in the mid 1960's. In the subsequent decades various improvements have been made, including the addition of hardshoulders. The standard of the existing carriageway and junctions is generally in accordance with current highway design standards contained in the Design Manual for Roads and Bridges (DMRB). However, there are features such as restricted stopping sight distance (SSD), narrow lanes and sub-standard slip road arrangements which, in some locations, are considered to be departures from current standards. Most of these departures would be retained within the proposed scheme and are described in Section 5.1.1.
