Towns that desperately need a bypass - your nominations

[zafferana]

Aylesbury

Rottingdean.

Arundel and Worthing have the A27, but it’s shit and in desperate need of updating and sorting out as they’re just bottle necks at the minute.

@HeddaGarbled

*1. Bad traffic

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

10. Town traffic now worse than before the bypass*

11. Everyone shops at new out of town retail parks
12. Town centre shops close

Exactly this.

Two cities planning by passes that I know of haven't been mentioned yet. Hereford and Shrewsbury. I don't think either are a good idea!

Another one for Melton Mowbray. Yes, they say it has been approved (it has taken years) and by the time the north and south bits of it are built I will be retired, very much older and won't even have a car any more.....

Tintwhistle/Glossop. I can’t imagine living there with all the Snake and Woodhead traffic thundering over to the M1.

Sandford, near Wareham

Edinburgh has one. It needs a better one.

Another vote for Maidstone!

@ThatPosterIsSoRight - Your post us so true. I've been saying this about by passes for years. I see it in many parts of the country that I've travelled to.

@Reluctantadult - Shrewsbury is a town not a city. It already has a bypass - it was built after the inner ring road became surrounded by buildings! The only bit not built is the NW relief road which is needed to stop all the traffic that currently travels through the town centre due to the long distance to go around the current bypass. If the Council go ahead with their current plan to transform the town centre and pedestrianise Smithfield Road then the relief road will definitely be needed. The A49/A5 bypass as it stands, already regularly comes to a standstill the minute there's an accident.

Leicester. I believe one is in the planning stages. That M1/M69 roundabout can't cope anymore.

Reading has the IDR which is a ring road, in theory, but never finished and then added to, badly. The M4 is the ring road.

Dewsbury

@MrsMoastyToasty

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.

I think Bristol needs flying cars. Most impossible city for traffic.

Harrogate.

Lovely town. But if you want to get from the A1 to the Dales, you have to go through Harrogate centre. Or Leeds to Ripon. Through the centre. Or just to to the other side of town.

Honestly surprised it hasn't got one. But it would probably affect house prices or someone's golf course. And it is a bit hilly as well.

Boston.
It's something that has been campaigned for, for years. Traffic in the town is a nightmare. One incident will back up the entire town within minutes.
I have to drive from one side to the other daily. If you do this journey at night it's 10 mins tops, during rush hour you can take 45 mins. If there's an accident you might as well kiss goodbye to the next two/three hours of your life.
We also have a lot of agricultural traffic moving through, and lots of HGV. But then the docks are in town, and there would be no alternative route for their traffic.

@sleaf

Petworth and Midhurst, West Sussex.

Yes! Petworth all day long. I curse every time I drive through, sucking in my breath in case it makes the car smaller. Graveyard for wing mirrors.

On the other hand, Farnham has a bypass and the traffic is still mental.

@TheDogsMother

Arundel. They've been debating it for c20 years.

At least the traffic doesn’t go through the town centre though.

@ThatPosterIsSoRight

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.

The local bypass is due to be finished this year, we’ve been waiting since 1972

Firstly the way they have done it is giving people the impression that its going to cause bigger traffic issues but just in a different place

But also the local village (the bypass is supposed to be helping) has a roundabout the has 4 entrances with two lanes each entrance…the council is taking this down to one lane for each entrance. At enormous cost

Its going to cause massive traffic jams….or at the very least the same jams will exist

Its all a bit disappointing really

Farnham needs to make it possible to turn right at the a31 junction by the station when you are coming from the Winchester direction, at the moment you have to go through town or Wrecclesham. Also Wrecclesham needs its own by-pass.

Newbury is another one whose problems haven't been solved by a by-pass, especially on race days.

Worthing, Worthing, a million times Worthing

Nairn in the Highlands

@8thplace

Llandeilo

I agree I think they’ve been taking about it for the last 20 years or so , but as long as Dripford is in charge no new roads will be built

@Walesrecommendations

Worthing, Worthing, a million times Worthing

Is it still not dualled yet?

I remember seeing houses that had been compulsorily purchased and boarded up to help sort out the A27.

@zafferana

I read the title and literally came to suggest Aylesbury and you beat me with the only word of your post 😂

It’s madness. Aylesbury is gridlocked every single day!

I thought Aberdeen got one?