Talk:A50 road

message: I have removed the following text: "It now serves the enormous Tesco shop at Longton. This has the largest floor area of any shop in the United Kingdom."
Not only is this information, in my view, irrelevant to an article about a road (do we list every significant retail space served by roads?), it is also unreferenced and ambiguous.  The comment could have intended to say that the store had the largest footprint of any retail store in the UK, but having visited this store and numerous others around the country, I find this suspicious.  If it was referring to total floor space, then the claim is even weaker as there are numerous stores built over several levels, which when combined would be much larger.  If anyone seriously objects, feel free to revert the article, and explain why I got it wrong!ColourSarge (talk) 17:24, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tescos 

message: At the end of the article it says, "The old A50 used to be the main route to London from Leicester, before it was replaced in the 19th century by what is now the A6." This seems very unlikley to me. I think the A6 is a much more ancient route. I have got Arthur Cossons book on Leicestershire Turnpikes. Would it be appropriate for this page to have a bit of a summary on the building of the Turnpike that largely became the A50? (I have not looked at many of the road pages, so would welcome guidance). RobinLeicester (talk) 20:16, 10 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  History 

message: I have removed the following content from the article, as being far too detailed. I am leaving it here for reference:
:Detailed Alsager - Hanley routing: It meets the A34 at crossroads and becomes Liverpool Road East. It enters the borough of Newcastle under Lyme at Kidsgrove, where it goes under the Macclesfield Canal, known as the Red Bull Aqueduct. It goes under the West Coast Main Line and becomes Liverpool Road. It meets the B5371 and passes the town hall. It becomes Kidsgrove Bank, then enters the City of Stoke on Trent and becomes Kidsgrove Road, and passes through Goldenhill and Sandyford, becoming High Street. It meets the A527 Reginald Mitchell Way at a roundabout, then enters Tunstall. It passes through the town centre and meets the A5271 at a roundabout, the A5271 (for Great Chell) leaves to the left. There are two more roundabouts, onw being with the A5271 to the right. It becomes Scotia Road, and passes the Dimensions leisure centre on the left. In Burslem, it meets the B5051 at crossroads in the town square, then is crosses by the B5050, and becomes Waterloo Road, heading down a hill towards Hanley. There are crossroads with the A53, and it becomes Vale Place. It meets the A5096 at a busy roundabout, and becomes the Potteries Way, which is the Hanley inner ring-road. There is a GSJ with the B5047, and a junction with the A5008 to the left, which multiplexes with the A50. There is another roundabout with Botteslow Street', near the town centre, and another roundabout, where the A5008 continues as Potteries Way, and the A50 leaves to the left down a hill.
-- PeterEastern (talk) 01:23, 4 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Detailed routing content

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