| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Closing Weltje Road/Rivercourt Road access | |
| Posted by: | Michael Robinson | |
| Date/Time: | 24/03/23 18:02:00 |
| Frances, It isn't 500 vehicles at peak hour turning into Weltje. Apologies if I said that. Total peak hour traffic for Weltje plus Rivercourt is about 500. The morning peak hour traffic of vehicles turning into Weltje is ~200 and evening peak hour ~300 vehicles. In comparison, a road like Netheravon that doesn't have access to the A4 has peak hour traffic of about 20 vehicles turning into it. Of the vehicles turning into Weltje Rd, the ratio is ~60% westbound turning left and ~40% eastbound turning right. Closing access at Weltje Rd will mean some of the westbound vehicles will access the A4 at the gyratory. Some will continue on to Chiswick Lane but they certainly won't continue on past Chiswick Lane to Dukes Ave or SCR. That would mean at least a 2km journey to get to the same place they could get to by turning left at Chiswick Lane. Of the eastbound vehicles turning right into Weltje, this represents about 240 vehicles during the evening peak. I think it is highly unlikely vehicles are driving the length of the A315 past SCR, Dukes and Chiswick Lane just to turn into Weltje for the eastbound A4. Anyway, so what if these vehicles turn into SCR, or Duke Ave or Chiswick Lane or even continue on to the gyratory? This volume of traffic really isn't significant compared to the existing traffic using these junctions. The general approach of traffic engineering is to look at the peak and the rest can look after itself. There won't be a big engineering study into the possible impact of a few hundred vehicles during the peak. This really is a tiny amount of traffic compared to the other roads in the area. Other things will be far more important for LBHF to assess. For example, access for council bin/recycling lorries - is there room for them to turnaround, would there need to be parking removed, would they need to reverse out? |