It may be a local myth but some of the older residents of my village (just off the A64) tell me that the Council and HMG looked at acquiring enough land to originally build the A1237 as a dual carriageway all the way round the north of York (including the bridges over the Ouse and ECML) but then...
No worries. Sometimes it is about the decision-making process of the big players rather than the edge-of-the-seat stuff. It is all shaping up nicely and I look forward to seeing you take events forward.
Just a quick note to say that I only discovered this recently and am really enjoying it. Don't think I've seen these ramifications from a POD before. I am looking forward to more!
Cheers!
I made a comment upthread about what Soviet reactions to Suez/Hungary might have been if Stalin had still been alive and one reply to my post was to point to those parts of his character as could be cautious. Absolutely agree with that.
It then got me thinking about how (probably inadvertently)...
I wonder how much more likely a nuclear conflict coming out of some balls-up related to Suez/Hungary might have been if somehow Stalin was still around in 56?
If Germany goes east not west when the war starts, and Britain is embroiled in issues around Irish Home Rule, then absent an attack on Belgium or a complete emasculation of France and German navy bases in Brest I think there is a bit of a watching brief. Perhaps a quasi-cold war? Interested in...