A
flop or a masterpiece in road design?
So at
last after Highways England’s stop start announcements over the last year on
just when they would unveil their plans for the Worthing to Lancing section of
the A27, all was revealed Wednesday, 20 July.
To
say it was greeted with great applause would be a long way from the truth, not
because it was an anticlimax but more because it was confusing.
For
years its been known the traffic signals at three traffic hotspots are at best
unreliable and at worse cause the gridlock, so what have the designers of the
latest scheme done – oh yes decided to add 4 or is it 5 more sets of
signals.
The uncertainty on just what is on offer, is due to
the poor illustrations and write up of the option plan – yes there’s only one
option for the road, take it or leave it.
Then
there is the confusion over the removal of right turns off the A27 and down
Sompting Road. Welcome news for residents’ who live along that road, bad news
for HGV’s wanting to get to the Industrial areas off Dominion road etc.
Use
the A24 through Broadwater then Sompting Ave was the suggestion from the
hovering eh consultant being helpful, but couldn’t tell just how many HGV’s
that would be. Stand by the smog masks Cricketers’ Parade and the other shops.
We
could go on and on about the failings of the consultants’ who have designed
this master piece. But a final example.
There
are some 120 families as well as businesses that are on the south side of the
A27 between the Airport lights and the Manor roundabout. The plan is to remove
the roundabout that enables those folk – as well as those who use Grinstead
lane – to access the eastbound A27 carriageway.
To
get to that eastbound route drive westward from the removed roundabout for
about a mile to the new junction at Hill Barn, then up Halewick lane onto
Meadowview road then Manor road etc until you eventually get to a new junction
party built within Manor Park – nearly opposite from where you set off from 3
miles or so ago. Isn’t that Brilliant?
