Conference terri::cars_uk

    
    On the same note....
    
    The Robin Hood Roundabout, A4 A34 junction, is undergoing major
    digging work.   
    
    Havoc is to be expected, especially during rush-hours.

    Can anyone tell me if the following roadworks are still ongoing:-
    
    a) on the M18 at the A1 Junction
    
    b) on the A1 between the M18 and Wetherby
    
    
    Cheers,
    
    John

	The Robin Hood roundabout improvements at Newbury have started.
	Queues are already bigger than they were and so far they've
	just put some cones and things up. It's expected to last 9 weeks!.

	Last week, half term, I was getting to Newbury site from Reading
	in 30 mins. This week with normal schools and RH congestion added
	it's taking over an hour.

	-John

There are numerous roadworks on the A1, but I assume you are particularly 
refering to the old roundabout at Leeds, south oF Wetherby?  This is now
just about finished and traffic flows a lot freer - until the next contraflow.

The A1/M18 was OK a few weeks ago when I drove through.

brian

    Re: .3 Robin Hood is no problem if you commute out of Newbury.  It's
    only those poor suckers commuting *in* that are affected.
    
    Jeff.

    
    Re: .3, .5
    
    The sooner a bypass/flyover is built the better for everyone...
    
    
    
    especially me as a commuter trying to get through Newbury :-)

    The North/South bypass isn't expected to be finished 'till 199bl**dy3!
    
    And even that won't solve the fact that the only East/West Route
    that is used by people trvelling to newbury to then go south is
    the A4.......What's needed is a route that would connect the pinchinton
    Lane roundabout with the A4 just east of Thatcham. Slough sounds
    a good place to put it to me.......

    Did you hear that work is soon to start on the "Basingstoke Road Relief
    Road" or whatever they call it? A flyover over the M4 just west of the
    existing roundabout and a new road into Reading round the back of
    DECpark. Sounds like an area to avoid for the next 18-24 months!
    
    Colin

Along with that work, have you heard that they are making the M4 four laned in
both directions all the way to Swindon and lighting all the way the junction 12?

Dave

    
    ...but there is nothing wrong with the M4 west of Junction 12...
    
    it's a perfectly good motorway with only three lanes (except on friday
    nights....) and I can't see how anyone can justify the expense for just
    friday nights !
    
    Apart from accidents, the volume of traffic is perfectly within
    tolerances, until of course you meet all those half asleep personages
    who drift onto the motorway at J12 <grrrrrrrrrr>  
    
    Now a couple of "A" road class lanes alongside the motorway for the
    junction hoppers would be a good idea...

I doubt if 4 lanes on the M4 would help. Most nights between J12 & J13 the 
left lane is almost empty and the other lanes nose to tail, but going at the 
same speed as the occasional truck in the left lane. One more lane would just
give the trucks two lanes to themselfs instead of one. The "overtaking" lane
would still be nose to tail.

Jc

     
    re -1, I agree, things would flow a lot better if people used all
    three lanes _properly_ , and werent so paranoid about the idea of 
    letting other cars move into their lane in front of them, so that they
    can overtake the lorries in the left lane.
    
    Elaine
    

    
    but just think....what would the CLOCs do with *2* middle lanes ???
    
    :-)

    No problem re .13 . They'd drive straight down the lane marker line
    
    Mike Day