Avoid Red Road Lightwater

[SVTRick]

As the title says
Avoid using Red Road there is a survey being carried out at top end near Mault Way.
Its causing chaos, very slow / stationary almost back to Gordons roundabout.

wkers - that's just what you need on your way home,

Don't think of driving round as the rozzers are there too

[AlexRS2782]

I got caught in one of those in Aldershot about a month or so back & all I was doing was going to get petrol from Tesco - quick trip to get some Super Unleaded turned into 45 minutes of sitting in a queue & answering mind numbing questions on how I used the roads in the area

Wonder if it's a survey related to overall traffic use etc, of that road? Hadn't that been hinted at after planning permission went through for the Deepcut Barracks / housing, etc, with regards to possible future changes, etc?

Either way seems mad to do it during evening rush hour, but then I guess biggest traffic flow at that time of day to get data.

[silverfoxcc]

AIUI
whilst it iscompulsory to stop when ordered at one of these roadblocks.You do not have to answer any questions. Best answer is

'I dont live around here' apologise and drive off.

[Landshark]

There is loads planned over tge next couple of months regarding future road planning and traffic movements. Tge ones I've been involved in previously don't tend to cause to much problems in terms of traffic delays, it seems this one is though.

As mentioned, you do have to stop, but don't have to answer the questions, although normally it's five or six cars in one go pulled in, all in a line and you have to wait for the ones in front to go first! The questions take a couple of minutes to answer. It's all organised by the council (or TFL if nearer London).

[edc]

Landshark said:

There is loads planned over tge next couple of months regarding future road planning and traffic movements. Tge ones I've been involved in previously don't tend to cause to much problems in terms of traffic delays, it seems this one is though.

As mentioned, you do have to stop, but don't have to answer the questions, although normally it's five or six cars in one go pulled in, all in a line and you have to wait for the ones in front to go first! The questions take a couple of minutes to answer. It's all organised by the council (or TFL if nearer London).

You must be joking. A couple of weeks ago they did this at 7.30 onwards on the entry slip road northbound Farnborough to the M3. If I ever stopped there for any reason I'm sure I would be lambasted. That must have been the silliest place to do it. You then get the lorries going from a standing start using only 25% of the slip joining at 20 mph as that bit is also on an incline.

[Landshark]

edc said:

You must be joking. A couple of weeks ago they did this at 7.30 onwards on the entry slip road northbound Farnborough to the M3. If I ever stopped there for any reason I'm sure I would be lambasted. That must have been the silliest place to do it. You then get the lorries going from a standing start using only 25% of the slip joining at 20 mph as that bit is also on an incline.

Yeah, that was Hampshire believe, did think to myself that was an odd place to do it????

[krisdelta]

I suspect the survey is related to the recent approval of the Borough's "strategic plan" around housing in the area, e.g. they have to acommodate x number of additional houses within a few years. Residents have rightly shown concern about the local infrastructure including roads / parking / railway if 1300 additional houses are built in Deepcut. There is a traffic counting device at the southern end of Deepcut which has appeared in the last few days too.

ETA: http://prbdevelopment.gva.co.uk/

Edited by krisdelta on Wednesday 25th September 16:55

[PK42]

We started going down the red road last night from Gordon school roundabout and almost immediately it started queing. Pulled a handbrake turn (oh ok I just turned into a track at the side - handbraking would have been more fun tho!) and went on the M3.

Edited by PK42 on Wednesday 25th September 21:12

[Jagmanv12]

krisdelta said:

I suspect the survey is related to the recent approval of the Borough's "strategic plan" around housing in the area, e.g. they have to acommodate x number of additional houses within a few years. Residents have rightly shown concern about the local infrastructure including roads / parking / railway if 1300 additional houses are built in Deepcut. There is a traffic counting device at the southern end of Deepcut which has appeared in the last few days too.

ETA: http://prbdevelopment.gva.co.uk/

Edited by krisdelta on Wednesday 25th September 16:55

If the survey is connected with extra housing and therefore extra traffic then the info collectors should be told that the infrastructure needs to be improved so the traffic flows properly. So roads should be properly surfaced, obstructions such as speed humps, narrowing gateways, etc should be removed.

In my area which already has long queues at junctions, roundabouts, etc during the rush hours some farmland is now being developed with hundreds of properties. Have the authorities done anything about improving the roads to cope with the increased traffic? Of course not.

[krisdelta]

Jagmanv12 said:

Have the authorities done anything about improving the roads to cope with the increased traffic? Of course not.

And this is where it gets interesting, the local authority who own and must deliver the strategic plan for housing, don't manage the roads - that's done by the county council.

Now, of course as open minded public servants, they've of course engaged the responsible party, explained their development plans and assigned appropriate spend to ensure the infrastructure can cope.

Well at least that is what one might expect to happen, except it hasn't. The message received from the local council is "it's not our problem" in broad summary.