Newbury Gridlock Options

[JeffG]

Seeing as this is an important issue which affects many of us I thought I would separate this out from the market thread where this started to be discussed.

This afternoon it took me the best part of an hour to get from the lower Andover Road area to Shaw. Tomorrow morning I have to pick someone up from a road off the A4 a short distance West of the Starting Gate.

I am currently thinking the quickest way would be to drive up the Andover Road to the Wash Water bypass interchange, then along the bypass to the A4 interchange. Any better suggestions?

It would be really useful if someone who travels South to North on a regular basis could keep us up to date with the current situation.

This is a total planning disaster: since all northbound traffic is funnelled into a single lane, it doesn't take a mathematical genius with an in-depth knowledge of Kirchoff's Law to work out that the Robin Hood lights should be adjusted to be green for twice as long northbound as all other routes.

Or maybe Mr/Ms Plod should be encouraged out of their ivory tower to actually do something to direct the traffic, as used to happen in days gone by.