What does the term "coastal highway" conjure up in your mind?
Something like this perhaps?
That is what I would term a coastal highway, a highway that runs along the coast.
The A158 certainly does not meet my expectations of the name. It does not run along the coast and it most certainly is not a highway.
Apparently the county council has a plan that the signs will be installed near Newark to highlight the route to our coast with further signs appearing along the route. I would contend that it is easy enough to find that route without a name being given to it to highlight it.
What a let-down it would be for a first time visitor that had been led to believe that the A158 from Lincoln to Skegness was some kind of highway, some kind of quick route to the coast. What a disappointment! It is not going to draw people to our coast!
I love the idea of the A158 being turned into a highway that would allow for a swift journey along the 41 miles from our county city to Skegness but I know that is not going to happen. The A158 needs major investment to rid it of the bottle-necks that have been known about for decades, namely Horncastle and Wragby, which would make the trip to the coast quicker and much more pleasant. That would go some way to encouraging more people to come to our coast. A cheap option of a few signs giving it a name, a somewhat misleading name at that, is definitely not what is needed.
For further thoughts on the road infrastructure in this area please see http://steveodare.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/a52a158-they-are-our-arteries-east.html
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