The author asserts that these decisions will have a negative impact, but one may disagree with that assertion -- and as it turns out, I think they're wrong. Ev

The author asserts that these decisions will have a negative impact, but one may disagree with that assertion -- and as it turns out, I think they're wrong. Even the cases of B roads inheriting the number of the A roads they replaced makes as much (if not more) sense as a motorway inheriting that number. Knowing that a road used to be the main road before the bypass was built is useful information! Around East Lothian, where I'm based, old alignments of the A1 are still A roads: the A199 and A198.