Brain Dead Wokingham road planners

Brain Dead Wokingham road planners

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silverfoxcc

Original Poster:

7,833 posts

152 months

Tuesday 12th June 2018
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The A329 from Reading to Wokingham with numerus side roads and Ped Xcrossings is a 40 mph limit

I used the zillion pound years in the building relief road from Lower Earley Way to Sindlesham last night and F**K me senseless this SC road with bugger all roads off of it is a 30 yes THIRTY limit

WTFFFFFFFF?


but more importantly WHY? does a councillor live there?

MDifficult

2,175 posts

192 months

Friday 15th June 2018
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I don't know for certain, but I suspect it's because they're going to build a metric 'stload' of houses along it over the next few years.

Leonard Stanley

3,850 posts

111 months

Friday 15th June 2018
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Homes populated with gormless couples called Dean and Kirstie, whose weekend consists of shuffling around the Oracle and having it large in Yates’s (unforgivable apostrophe usage intentional).

MDifficult

2,175 posts

192 months

Friday 15th June 2018
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Leonard Stanley said:
Homes populated with gormless couples called Dean and Kirstie, whose weekend consists of shuffling around the Oracle and having it large in Yates’s (unforgivable apostrophe usage intentional).
laugh

I can't comment on that. But I'll put a fiver on the houses being very close together, with gardens overlooked by at least two other houses, one tiny driveway space and a garage just about big enough for a pushbike.

Challo

10,838 posts

162 months

Saturday 16th June 2018
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MDifficult said:
Leonard Stanley said:
Homes populated with gormless couples called Dean and Kirstie, whose weekend consists of shuffling around the Oracle and having it large in Yates’s (unforgivable apostrophe usage intentional).
laugh

I can't comment on that. But I'll put a fiver on the houses being very close together, with gardens overlooked by at least two other houses, one tiny driveway space and a garage just about big enough for a pushbike.
Aren’t they the houses being built in the area that always floods?

silverfoxcc

Original Poster:

7,833 posts

152 months

Saturday 16th June 2018
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The way they are packing them in there wont be any space for floodwater

Matthen

1,341 posts

158 months

Tuesday 19th June 2018
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Very true; It'll push all the flooding down the river to the old houses on Loddon Bridge/Colmansmoor road.



I wouldn't cover a house in that area if I was an insurer.

Mr Pointy

11,849 posts

166 months

Tuesday 19th June 2018
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The houses are already there & being sold. The road (or more precisely the junctions) were only opened because the developers insisted on it, even though the full road system isn't finished & WDC insisted that this road would not be opened until the partner section was ready. It's already causing mayhem with the local traffic.

silverfoxcc

Original Poster:

7,833 posts

152 months

Tuesday 19th June 2018
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Lets face it.Having been stuck in the traffic that gridlocks both ways on the A329. This road does 3/5th of F all to solve that problem

NOW if someone with a brain cell looked at the traffic problem they would have seen that there is a perfectly good route from the KIng St? end alongside the Motorway to the junction south of Sainsburys where there is already a TL system. Thus the a329 traffic could turn lrft there and pootle along this missing bit of road ,onto the new stretch and hey ho onto Lower early way or even right to get onto to A329(M) thus making the Winnersh ccrossroads a bit more bearable

Or am i second guessing someone who actually knows about road management instead of working there?

ChrisC-Berks

93 posts

82 months

Tuesday 19th June 2018
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I honestly thought that this new bit of road would do something to help the traffic on the Lower Early way but it's actually got worse. I guessed that with the additional traffic lights it would force a bit of a better flow but I was wrong!

It is actually quicker to take a detour around the houses and re-join the lower early way a few at the moat house roundabout than sit in the traffic.

One blessing is that people are seemingly too thick or stuck in their ways to realise that both lanes of the traffic lights go straight on so you can queue jump here quite easily.

Mafffew

2,149 posts

118 months

Tuesday 19th June 2018
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ChrisC-Berks said:
I honestly thought that this new bit of road would do something to help the traffic on the Lower Early way but it's actually got worse. I guessed that with the additional traffic lights it would force a bit of a better flow but I was wrong!

It is actually quicker to take a detour around the houses and re-join the lower early way a few at the moat house roundabout than sit in the traffic.

One blessing is that people are seemingly too thick or stuck in their ways to realise that both lanes of the traffic lights go straight on so you can queue jump here quite easily.
Problem with that is you always get the numpties who don't know how merging works, think you're pushing in etc.

What I've found interesting is going the opposite way, heading towards Earley, most drivers seem to stick to the right. So you end up undertaking a load of numpties instead!

I think there is something wrong with the residents around here rolleyes

ChrisC-Berks

93 posts

82 months

Tuesday 19th June 2018
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Right hand lane through showcase then left hand lane through the new lights. Easy peasy.

By this point the car has warmed up and can make some noise to let people know I'm there.

I made some kids in a people carrier laugh when I pulled away this evening with a small bit of noise.

Winky151

1,270 posts

148 months

Tuesday 26th June 2018
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Challo said:
Aren’t they the houses being built in the area that always floods?
Not that I'm aware of. Only the road has been put there, all the housing will be at the Sainsburys end of the road & they've allowed for flooding with tunnels under the road to allow the water through.