Monday, November 30, 2009

Where you at the Newbury Bypass protest camps?

As part of the Newbury Bypass documentary a film maker is researching, he has created
a draft map of the proposed route circa 1996. He needs help with several things;

- Are there any locations missing from the list?

- Is the list of locations in the correct
order and position?

- Are there any locations listed that actually didn't
exist ;-)

You'll find some of the locations don't have a 'tree' marker on the
map, as I'm not sure about position/order yet...
http://www.kinokast.net/newbury/newbury_map96.html
Email jamielowe@kinokast.net

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Cloud Services · 420 weeks ago

Much of Newbury's town centre traffic is commercial vehicles from the south (Hampshire) connecting to the A34 and the M4. For reasons unknown, no connection to the A34 from the A339 was made south of Newbury, with all traffic directed directly through the middle of this now-strangled town. Newbury has no "bypass" if you approach from the south-east. It has one major road crossing the barriers of the railway tracks and river/canal. One minor accident and the whole thing grinds to a halt, with no alternative route. There needs to be a connection to the A339 from Newtown to the the A34 south of Newbury to relieve this pressure. Then there are the roundabouts that aren't. Roundabouts with signals are just poorly executed junctions. Newbury reminds me of the old Yogi Berra joke "Nobody goes there any more - it's too crowded."

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