Yesterday's woodland walk may have been away from the main road, but when I descended the last hill, the highway and its agents reasserted themselves.
A £10 million road improvement scheme, no less. Yes, ten million quid buys you a replacement roundabout nowadays. This one being constructed over the next year.
More lanes and one of those cut across the middle things, in this case featuring an inserted merging junction. A roundabout short cut, maybe?
I don't think there is a proper word for this complicated formation yet although I expect the commuters will soon come up with an improper one?
In fairness to the road builders, they have done a pretty good job along parts of the A30 where they thinned it down to a single track, added white safety markings and a space for cycles and in some areas an uninterrupted extra dual-use paving for pedestrians and cyclists.
It's all far more low key than the CS routes in the centre of London, but does start to provide clear and improved stretches for cycling.
The replaced dual carriage way sections were often illusory on these stretches in any case, with insufficient distances to make the apparently faster vehicles gain any real time advantage.
A case of 'catch them doing it right'.
