Game: Name that road!

[Edwardoka]

Couple of clues, since it was the shadows that led me to work out the road orientation in @Aravis' screenshot.

1. The photo was taken at noon on the 12th August.
2. If I'd taken it 6 years, a day and an hour earlier it would have looked very different indeed.

 

[ColinJ]

I know it isn't my turn, but my next road will be so difficult that you will need a year or two of extra time for your searches. Work on it as a background task...

 

[roubaixtuesday]

Couple of clues, since it was the shadows that led me to work out the road orientation in @Aravis' screenshot.

1. The photo was taken at noon on the 12th August.
2. If I'd taken it 6 years, a day and an hour earlier it would have looked very different indeed.

That's a reference to the total eclipse 1999.

So we know the road is headed ~East, was taken in 2005 and has been modified in some way since.

We can conclude from this...

ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WHATEVER!!!!

 

[Edwardoka]

I know it isn't my turn, but my next road will be so difficult that you will need a year or two of extra time for your searches. Work on it as a background task...

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Cheeky git

Ok, here's the full image.

(The crisp packet was not mine.)

 

[roubaixtuesday]

You're a soft touch @Edwardoka , some people hold out for days before giving clues.

Do I get a consolation prize for the escape lane?

 

[Edwardoka]

We can conclude from this...

ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WHATEVER!!!!

An eastbound road with an escape lane in the 1999 path of totality isn't exactly nothing

You're a soft touch @Edwardoka , some people hold out for days before giving clues.

Do I get a consolation prize for the escape lane?

Yes of course, it was an excellent observation that severely narrows down the possibilities which is why I blurred the signs in the first place.

 

[classic33]

A9 Ballinluig

 

[roubaixtuesday]

path of totality

Aha!

Yes of course

What do I get, O most sagacious Doge?

 

[roubaixtuesday]

A390 heading east into Lostwithiel, Cornwall

 

[Edwardoka]

Aha!

Curses, tricked!

What do I get, O most sagacious Doge?

I have revoked your prize for tricking me into revealing the answer to my clue that you had already done 99% of the work on

 

[roubaixtuesday]

I'm wrong about Lostwithiel, of course. Posted in sudden excitement as the only listed escape lane in Cornwall heading east.

On streetview, it appears to be designed for Tonka toy trucks rather than actual ones - very odd!

 

[Edwardoka]

A9 Ballinluig

No, although you get 0.25 points as this trip did involve briefly riding on the A9.

A390 heading east into Lostwithiel, Cornwall

No, although you get 0.75 points as this trip did involve travelling through Lostwithiel.
And yeah, that is less an escape lane and more a "bisect your car on the crash barrier" lane.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

Et Voila!

Part of Devon was in the path of totality, incl Dartmouth

https://www.google.com/maps/@50.353...0SD1kXbc8IixQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!9m2!1b1!2i40

 

[Edwardoka]

Correct!

The photo I took was at the junction about 2/3rds of the way up - deceptively steep for a main road.
Devon is an evil place for fat cyclists.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

Devon is an evil place for fat cyclists.

Whilst Devon is not somewhere I've ever ridden a bike, I do not doubt your Dogesome's characterisation!

And the A9 to Lostwithiel tour sounds like a most excellent jaunt - I presume LEJOG?