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Plymouth.
An interesting place - it contains both vast swathes of deprived nastyness for which most people know it, but also contains some of the most fantastic scenery in any city due to the excellent natural harbour around which it's based. It's a mecca for tourists in the Summer, presumably the sort of people who can't be bothered to go somewhere decent for a holiday but thats besides the point.
The main trunk route into the city from Civilisation is pretty much a free flowing dual carriageway all the way into virtually the centre of town. Whilst most locals will bitch and moan about traffic the truth is a Plymothian doesn't really know what a traffic jam is, a 'hellish traffic jam' is one that means it takes 5-10 minutes longer to get into town.
The council, however, have decided this isn't good enough and have embarked on a many, many millions of pounds road building excercise. It's sold as some sort of massive improvement but in reality its not - they are simply converting one of the roads into town into a dedicated 'Public Transport Corridor' and as a result, are forced to upgrade the main route into town to take care of the traffic displaced from the new 'Public Transport Corridor'. The whole thing is a complete scam and will result in a net loss of road capacity into and out of the city via this route.
They have picked now to do this work, and it is going to take one year. The first phase is a 5 month - yes - 5 month closure of the main dual carriageway route into town. Instead, all traffic into town from the A38 (We dont have Motorways here, most janners think the A38 is a Motorway) is forced along a divisionary route. This route used to be two lanes of traffic outbound only (It's an odd layout but just take my word for it), but now....
I present the main route into and out of a city with a population of 270,000 people...
Just WHAT are they thinking?! Approaching peak tourist season as well.
All for a BUS ROUTE!
Needless to say its causing absolute choas. It took me 40 minutes to make a trip that would normally take 15 and that wasn't even rush hour...
They've also helped things along by needlessly coning off all the outside lanes of the various bits of dual carraigeway section we have left as a 'traffic calming' measure as well
An interesting place - it contains both vast swathes of deprived nastyness for which most people know it, but also contains some of the most fantastic scenery in any city due to the excellent natural harbour around which it's based. It's a mecca for tourists in the Summer, presumably the sort of people who can't be bothered to go somewhere decent for a holiday but thats besides the point.
The main trunk route into the city from Civilisation is pretty much a free flowing dual carriageway all the way into virtually the centre of town. Whilst most locals will bitch and moan about traffic the truth is a Plymothian doesn't really know what a traffic jam is, a 'hellish traffic jam' is one that means it takes 5-10 minutes longer to get into town.
The council, however, have decided this isn't good enough and have embarked on a many, many millions of pounds road building excercise. It's sold as some sort of massive improvement but in reality its not - they are simply converting one of the roads into town into a dedicated 'Public Transport Corridor' and as a result, are forced to upgrade the main route into town to take care of the traffic displaced from the new 'Public Transport Corridor'. The whole thing is a complete scam and will result in a net loss of road capacity into and out of the city via this route.
They have picked now to do this work, and it is going to take one year. The first phase is a 5 month - yes - 5 month closure of the main dual carriageway route into town. Instead, all traffic into town from the A38 (We dont have Motorways here, most janners think the A38 is a Motorway) is forced along a divisionary route. This route used to be two lanes of traffic outbound only (It's an odd layout but just take my word for it), but now....
I present the main route into and out of a city with a population of 270,000 people...
Just WHAT are they thinking?! Approaching peak tourist season as well.
All for a BUS ROUTE!
Needless to say its causing absolute choas. It took me 40 minutes to make a trip that would normally take 15 and that wasn't even rush hour...
They've also helped things along by needlessly coning off all the outside lanes of the various bits of dual carraigeway section we have left as a 'traffic calming' measure as well
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. But don't most people simply bypass Plymouth on their way somewhere nice?
