A local website dedicated to sustainable transport in Whitchurch has shown strong support for this campaign, including some stunning new photos of cars and HGV's cutting the corner of the intersection:
( Photo below shamelessly lifted from http://liveablewhitchurch.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/tufton-a34-junction-dangers-in-spotlight.html )
Yesterday on a stunning late Autumn ride I took this photo of the road surface. It's a bit hard to make out, but you can see how the grit on the hatching area (laid the previous evening) has been swept clean by the tyres of vehicles cutting the corner. From the centre of the proper lane to where vehicle tyres have swept the grit away is over two meters - which give you an idea of just how far over vehicles are cutting the corner:
This blog will track local efforts to improve safety on the A34 sliproad heading north into the town of Whitchurch, Hampshire. In particular, to reduce vehicle speeds on the first right-hand corner of the sliproad, and to improve the layout where it intersects with a country lane called Nun's Walk. And that, in doing so, a major risk in cycling and driving from Whitchurch to Tufton and beyond will be greatly reduced.
Friday, 30 November 2012
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Pop up to Lynch Hill Park at London Road to see all the wooden bollards knocked over...again.
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