CUMBRIAN A-roads can be notoriously slow - with only a few dual carriageways, the fell passes often needing work and a large influx of tourists in the summer.
New data published by the Department for Transport reveals exactly how slow your local A-road is. The 'average speed, delay and reliability of travel times' data set shows how long it takes for drivers to travel.
This is the average speed of A-roads in Cumbria in 2023 (flow-weighted), ranked slowest to fastest:
- A69: 15.4mph
- A5094: 18.6mph
- A5271: 19.7mph
- A5074: 20.2mph
- A5075: 21.9mph
- A597: 22.4mph
- A5284: 22.7mph
- A593: 23.4mph
- A7: 25.3mph
- A5087: 26.5mph
- A684: 29.0mph
- A592: 30.2mph
- A65: 30.7mph
- A596: 31.7mph
- A6: 31.8mph
- A5093: 32.3mph
- A590: 32.5mph
- A686: 32.6mph
- A594: 32.7mph
- 5084: 33.0mph
- A5086: 33.1mph
- A5091: 33.5mph
- A6070: 34.2mph
- A5092: 34.8mph
- A595: 35.6mph
- A683: 35.7mph
- A689: 35.9mph
- A6071: 36.8mph
- A591: 38.1mph
- A685: 39.1mph
The total average speed of Cumbrian roads is 30.8mph, which is well above the English average of 23mph.
The data set also calculates average delay on local A roads. In England it was 47.9 seconds per vehicle per mile (spvpm) in 2023. There are four roads in Cumbria that were below the average:
- A5074: 56.8 spvpm
- A5094: 61.9 spvpm
- A69: 84.2 spvpm
- A5271: 54.7spvpm
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