Towns that desperately need a bypass - your nominations

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Aylesbury

Reading

I know it's got the M4, but this it regularly closed due to accidents and then we get grid-lock. An alternative would be brilliant but as likely as an ice cube in hell

In the village category - Saltford. It's a village between Bristol and Bath. The A4 runs through it and as soon as there's an accident or roadworks it's totally stuff
In the city category- Bristol. Its Avon Ring Road only goes a third of the way around the city.

Hertford.

Worcester Park. It has been known for it to take a bus an hour or so to just get up the high street there in rush hour. Other times aren't much better. No idea where you could build it though.

Llandeilo

Long Stratton in Norfolk...
They've been waiting since I was a child and I'm nearly 53!

Worthing

Indeed @8thplace. Another vote for Llandeilo.

Ashbourne.

Aberdeen

Port Talbot. Through the hill maybe??

@Elderflower14

Long Stratton in Norfolk... They've been waiting since I was a child and I'm nearly 53!

Seconded.

Maidstone.
Has a vast and stunning collection of mediaeval buildings but you wouldn't know it as the 60s planners thought better.

It regularly gets gridlocked due the bloody M20 due to Operation Stack/Brock or whatever name they think of plus endless ongoing works.

Chideock

Woodstock. We stayed there a few weeks ago and could not believe the amount of traffic or the speed that people drive through the town, especially at night.

I agree with Aylesbury and Maidstone

Woodstock? It’s about 2 mins off the A44!

The trouble is, this is how bypasses go:

1. Bad traffic
2. Build a bypass
3. Build retail parks on the town side of the bypass
4. People drive on the bypass to go to the retail parks
5. Build houses in spare land town-side, right up to the bypass.
6. All those new people drive
7. Build houses on the non-town side of the bypass
8. Bypass now gridlocked
9. Sat nav always tells you to drive through the town/city as quicker

10. Town traffic now worse than before the bypass.

Chichester is an example of this.

Reading!! The town centre is an absolute nightmare, we desperately need a bypass. I think the IDR is the worst bit of urban planning ever seen.

Melton Mowbray- allegedly it’s coming……

Another vote for Long Stratton.

Marlborough- huge lorries thundering down narrow streets on the way from m4 / Swindon to Salisbury

Elgin and Nairn

I'm with you @OldTinHat - Worthing all day long!

Telford. I mean, it's already got several bypasses, including the M54, but it needs a really good one so no-one has to fucking look at it at all.