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Subject Topic: driving to cornwall - A30 bottleneck
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PersonSceptical Camper
19/7/2015 at 9:42am
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Until a couple of years ago I drove from Warwickshire to west Cornwall several times every summer. More recently, I've done the journey once a year in August.

In my experience, once the school holidays have started there will be substantial daytime congestion on the two single carriageway sections of the A30 in Cornwall - between Temple and Cardinham (east of Bodmin); and between Carland Cross and Chiverton Cross.

Before you leave, check online for congestion, incidents, and roadworks:

http://www.theaa.com/traffic-news/index.jsp

http://www.trafficengland.com/index.aspx

http://www.bbc.co.uk/travel/cornwall/incidents/road

http://www.highways.gov.uk/traffic-information/traffic-information-services/traffic-cameras/


Personmitchells fam
19/7/2015 at 9:48am
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Thanks alpiner, i had no idea about the new services, we are only going as far down as perranporth so drive should be a little shorter xx

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Personmitchells fam
19/7/2015 at 9:51am
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Thanks sceptical camper they will come in really handy, we use the waze app on my phone whilst were travelling but have never really checked before we set off xx

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have just come back from a week in Cornwall and travelled on the A30 to just before Newquay, travelling on a Saturday both days.
Firstly, the new services on the A30 (between Newquay and Bodmin) are very good and have in / out spaces for camping trailers with no reversing needed.
Please note that they have started making the single lane bottleneck into a dual carriageway, the bit near Jamaica Inn and the lakes, the works will be for 2 years. This means that a large section either side is coned down to 1 lane and the traffic is worse. We hit it going down at about 10am and there was about 1 mile of traffic, slow moving. There looked to be a good 2 miles queuing the other way leaving Cornwall. We came home late on Sat and arrived at the bottleneck at about 8pm and sailed through without anything at all.


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We drive down overnight from Northumberland. We leave between 10 and 11pm. Hubby drives and we have three planned stops on the way down every couple of hours so he can get out and have stretch, a cuppa/snack or wee break. DS and I sleep most of the way. DH has about 6-8 hours before we head off in the afternoon/evening. We are usually at Newquay MacDonalds for breakfast at 7am. We tow so are not going faster than 60mph and to be honest dont want to rush. We have never had an issue on the A30 as we hit around 5:30am ish. We drive back overnight too.....it avoids 8 hours of "are we there yet?" Lol

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Personmitchells fam
21/7/2015 at 9:38pm
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Well we'll definately drive home late then and sounds like setting off at 1ish will be the best idea, from doncaster its about 6 hr drive without traffic so unless we're unlucky fingers crossed we're passed the bottleneck. Iv tried looking but cant find any overnight closures as yet so hopefully its not just my searches that are wrong! Xx

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Took friends of mine 7 hours to return to Somerset yesterday mainly because of the delays at Temple, 140 miles !

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25/7/2015 at 10:03pm
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We have travelled back today from Newquay and the a30 has roadworks by Jamaica inn and lauceston. Going down last Saturday we sat for 45mins coming back today was about 20, but the traffic going down was really bad xx


Personmitchells fam
26/7/2015 at 10:28am
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Oh no! What time did you set off?
Amycowley1, would you advice getting off the a30 at launceston and going on a39 or was the traffic before that point?
Also what was the bottleneck/roadworks like? Xx

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PersonAmycowley1
26/7/2015 at 7:44pm
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Hi we stayed on it as we have a big car and trailer tent and our friends had a caravan so wasn't sure on other routes was just following sat nav. They are altering the carriageway so it's down to one lane both sides. We sat from just before the Jamaica in. Turning if you know that I'm not really familiar with the area, till just after lauceston. Hope that helps


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Personmitchells fam
30/7/2015 at 12:45pm
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Thanks amy, yes it does, iv had a look on the map and the turning for the a39 is before jamaica inn, just after launceston so hopefully there will only be a little traffic xx

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Personcarol benham
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Drove back from Cornwall yesterday and it won't be the A30 where the hold up will be it was most of the M5 southbound! That said northbound was at a standstill from Exeter too with a slow crawl into Bristol (this was before the motorway was closed).

We were coming back from North Cornwall on the A30 with a slight hold up in Camelford (no more that 20 minutes).

There are roadworks on the A39 for road widening by Jamaica inn which will also slow things down.

That said we usually travel on a Sunday when it's a lot quieter - Midlands to North Cornwall last Sunday 4 hours door to door with a half hour break leaving at 8:00 ( I needed the extra coffee to keep me going so we were late setting off)


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If you are not towing,going west bound come off the A30 at temple,Sign says no A30 traffic,the road is open just keep on going,You are on the old road and waving to the traffic on the A30.Friend of mine use`s this road 3 times a week.

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PersonSceptical Camper
02/8/2015 at 11:26am
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Quote: Originally posted by carol benham on 02/8/2015
... We were coming back from North Cornwall on the A30 with a slight hold up in Camelford ...

Camelford is on the A39.

Quote: Originally posted by carol benham on 02/8/2015
...There are roadworks on the A39 for road widening by Jamaica inn which will also slow things down.


Jamaica Inn is on the A30.


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It took us 9 hours (towing a trailer) to cover 325 miles yesterday.

The main bottleneck is the single carriageway bit of the A30 and the roadworks to make it dual carriageway - which should be complete next summer.

On the way down there was congestion on the M5 near Bristol so we elected to go through the city. It was no quicker, but more interesting than stop-start on the M5.

On the way back there was an accident southbound near Michaelwood Services on the M5 which may explain the delays Carol experienced. At one point they closed northbound too for the air ambulance to land.

No matter how bad the traffic, there are people having a worse journey. Stay safe out there.


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We got stuck in a bit of traffic, after the road works (en route to Penzance) if felt as if the traffic was backing up because of the amount of roundabouts. Also lots of dual carriage ways that merge into single lanes causing issues.

On the way home, we left at 11am from St Just and it took over 5 hours to get to Exeter - carnage!!! Next time we will travel over night for sure.

All the stop start traffic on way down caused engine to overheat and car went into limp home mode, so we had 7 hours of travelling at half power on way home, so good job it was slow moving ;-)


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