Gramaisc
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Are there size restrictions? All I can remember, or see on Street View, is a 7.5 ton weight limit on the canal bridge, plus the obvious assumption that you wouldn't go past those. I've never seen anybody flout that rule.
It's tight, but doable, for a car and a Transit-sized thing to pass on the farm bridge, or the bend at the stone bridge. I don't use it much these days, but a lot of the problem, other than cars getting a little wider, is down to people lacking awareness of where the offside of their vehicle actually is. I've had several instances of people mouthing off at the stone bridge corner, when they've been well over the centre-line and had more than four feet of tarmac beyond the offside of their car.
In the mid-70s, it was virtually single-lane between the farm and Tixall Road/Blackheath Lane. That was awkward for two cars, but it was widened to its current form around 1977ish. This, of course, generated a good bit more traffic and resulted in the standard Stafford response of traffic lights at the crossroads.
It's tight, but doable, for a car and a Transit-sized thing to pass on the farm bridge, or the bend at the stone bridge. I don't use it much these days, but a lot of the problem, other than cars getting a little wider, is down to people lacking awareness of where the offside of their vehicle actually is. I've had several instances of people mouthing off at the stone bridge corner, when they've been well over the centre-line and had more than four feet of tarmac beyond the offside of their car.
In the mid-70s, it was virtually single-lane between the farm and Tixall Road/Blackheath Lane. That was awkward for two cars, but it was widened to its current form around 1977ish. This, of course, generated a good bit more traffic and resulted in the standard Stafford response of traffic lights at the crossroads.