A16 road

UK road routebox
road= A16
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direction= South-North
start= Stamford
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end= Grimsby
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junctions= The A16 road is a principal road of Lincolnshire in the east of England, connecting the port of Grimsby and Stamford, where it meets the A1 and the A43 the latter, in turn, giving a through route to Oxford and the south west of England. Its length is 85 miles.

From north to south its route is:
*Grimsby
*Utterby
*Louth (now bypassed)
*Burwell
*Walmsgate
*Dalby
*Partney (now bypassed)
*Spilsby
*East Keal
*Keal Cotes
*Stickford
*Stickney
*Sibsey
*Hilldyke
*Boston
*Wyberton
*Kirton (now bypassed)
*Surfleet
*Pinchbeck (now bypassed)
*Spalding (now bypassed)
*Deeping St Nicholas
*Market Deeping (now bypassed)
*Tallington
*Uffington
*Stamford

Although it has 'primary route' designation for its entire length virtually none of the A16 is dual carriageway and there are speed restrictions on much of it.

The one-mile (1.6 km) £1.2m Ludborough Bypass opened in November 1992. The one-mile (1.6 km) Fotherby Bypass opened in 2004. The three-mile (5 km) £6.6m Louth Bypass opened in August 1991. The one-mile (1.6 km) Partney Bypass opened in August 2005. From West Keal to Boston, the road is very flat. The one-mile (1.6 km) £1m Stickford Bypass opened in October 1992. The £1.4m Boston Inner Relief Road opened in early 1978. There are demands for Boston to be bypassed. The six-mile (10 km) £11.5m Boston-Algarkirk Diversion opened in October 1991. The eleven-mile (18 km) £23m Spalding-Sutterton Improvement (the Spalding Bypass) opened in August 1995. The four-mile (6 km) £7m Market Deeping Bypass (also part of the A15) opened in July 1998.

External links

* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lincolnshire/4139792.stm Partney Bypass opens.]
* [http://www.bostonbypass.org.uk Boston Bypass Pressure Group.]
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lincolnshire/4463509.stm Lincolnshire Police drop off member of public by the A16 who then dies from hypothermia walking home.]
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lincolnshire/3725710.stm Park and Ride site at Stickney.]