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Towns that desperately need a bypass - your nominations

182 replies

zafferana · 14/03/2022 11:31

Aylesbury

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zafferana · 15/03/2022 08:52

It's hideous isn't it @WhatisanODP? All those bloody mini roundabouts, traffic lights and then add in the chaos that is HS2 and I can feel steam coming out of my ears every time I have to drive through it!

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Mysterian · 15/03/2022 09:03

Reading may have the M4 but it's not a RING road. It's an east-west bypass. There needs to be something around the north to make an actual ring.

Emmab321 · 15/03/2022 09:05

Glossop ! Nightmare

SnowWhiteLobelia · 15/03/2022 09:06

Newport Isle of Wight. All roads lead to Newport and they have this insane multi roundabout system with traffic lights every 50 metres. I've been there during the Festival (mistake); summer holidays {mistake} and in winter (bad mistake).

BobbinThreadbare123 · 15/03/2022 09:09

Glossop. Weird bottleneck there now.
Ulverston. Got to squeeze through it to get up to Sellafield etc via the coast.

Sebastianthecoo · 15/03/2022 09:11

Aberdeen has had a bypass for about 3 years.

RuralDwelling · 15/03/2022 09:13

@queenrollo

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.
agreed! Boston is the only place locally where the supposed bypass (John Adams Way) goes through the town!
squashyhat · 15/03/2022 09:13

Worthing and Arundel? What is the A27 then?

LucyLoopyLu · 15/03/2022 09:17

I came here to say Glossop and very glad to see I'm not the first.
What a shambles it is.

GeorgiePorge · 15/03/2022 09:17

Hereford.
but also second Reading.

infact any town/city built on a river could do with several new bridges/ bypasses.

neither crossing the Severn in nearer would be great.
nother

GeorgiePorge · 15/03/2022 09:17

*another

Walesrecommendations · 15/03/2022 09:28

@squashyhat the A27 is total gridlock through Worthing. Its single carriageway and can't cope with the volume of traffic.

Walesrecommendations · 15/03/2022 09:31

@cakeorwine nope! Single from Lyons farm. We've moved away because of the traffic around Worthing, that and the A259. Add in any sort of roadworks or accident and its even worse.

Ruinedwalks · 15/03/2022 09:32

Dundee.

Nocaloriesinchocolate · 15/03/2022 09:36

Southwell. Very narrow streets, nasty right hand bends, cars parked on road as medieval builders didn’t think to provide car parking spaces,.

iwantcurry · 15/03/2022 09:49

@queenrollo

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.
We used to live on the opposite side of Boston to the hospital, and I was panicked about going into labour and getting stuck in traffic! Luckily it started in the middle of the night- drove straight through! They've removed the traffic lights from the roundabout into Boston, but I don't think it's made much difference!
bubblesbubbles11 · 15/03/2022 09:53

Second for Aylesbury.

Also - Hereford.

Abra1d1 · 15/03/2022 09:56

@Indoctro

Elgin and Nairn
Get rid of some of the traffic lights in Nairn and it would help.
Ariela · 15/03/2022 09:56

@BluerThanRobinsEggs

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.
Except there is no northern part to the ring. Needs a new bridge, the 3rd bridge around end of A329M over the Thames, up round the back of CPV and across to go over a new bridge to the west of Reading (bypassing Whitchurch toll bridge and Goring/Streatley) to link back to the M4 at J 12 (or between 12 & 13), and with a spur heading north to link up to the M40.

But south Oxfordshire will not have traffic in their county, nor vast acreages of their countryside (quite rightly, it is beautiful) turned over to housing so it won't happen in my lifetime.

Abra1d1 · 15/03/2022 09:59

There’s masses of housing going up in south Oxfordshire along with the rest of the county!

Movinghouseatlast · 15/03/2022 10:07

Epsom really needs a by pass, but there is nowhere to put it.

beguilingeyes · 15/03/2022 10:13

@Charlieandlola

Marlborough- huge lorries thundering down narrow streets on the way from m4 / Swindon to Salisbury
Completely off-topic but we were in Marlborough in Saturday and went to Tarte In A Bag. Oh my word. Amazing tarts and quiches.
emmathedilemma · 15/03/2022 10:16

Edinburgh needs a bypass to bypass the bypass!

sleaf · 15/03/2022 10:24

@Daenerys77

Westbury, Wiltshire (was supposed to get one back in the noughties, didn't happen)
Another vote for Westbury. So many HGVs and buses thundering through the town centre on an already busy road with some nasty blind corners.
pinkyredrose · 15/03/2022 10:26

Crawley. Not to divert the traffic or anything, it's just a shithole.