THE GEOGRAPHY OF MOTORWAY SERVICE STATIONS & DISTRIBUTION WAREHOUSES
There are 3 companies involved in running Motorway service stations.
If you have ever made a long journey on the UK motorway network you may have felt that urge for a Burger King, or perhaps been nagged from the back seat: "Daaad!" - perhaps it was you doing the nagging....
The companies all have websites of course...
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MOTO (took over from Granada...) |
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ROADCHEF |
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WELCOME BREAK |
Obviously, like any industry, thought has to go into the LOCATION or SITING of the service areas.
Where would be a good location for a service area ?
Are there any possible restrictions that you can think of ?
There are alternatives to stopping at a service station. One useful site is 5 MINUTES AWAY. This gives some alternative places to rest within 5 minutes of each motorway junction. Click the picture below to check it out....
DISTRIBUTION WAREHOUSES
A growing trend is for companies to have several large warehouses in key locations on the motorway network.
ARGOS is one such company.
WILKINSONs has a large warehouse on the A57, just off the A1
OTHER RESOURCES
M25
Using the BBC LONDON TRANSPORT page you could explore the extent to which congestion is affecting the M25 on a typical day. If you have a lesson first thing, the RUSH HOUR is probably still occurring..
Long on to THIS PAGE, and use the JAM CAMS to spot the queues and plot them on a blank outline map, then play the COMMUTER GAME.
Or check out the HIGHWAYS AGENCY site.