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Old January 7th 13, 10:00 AM
Robin9 Robin9 is offline
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Originally Posted by Basil Jet[_3_] View Post
On 2013\01\06 11:31, Robin9 wrote:
Barry Salter;135293 Wrote:
On 05/01/2013 11:20, tim..... wrote:
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Try the section through Ealing and the junction with the A1, they are
the pits
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Henlys Corner (the aforementioned junction with the A1) is pretty
reasonable since they completed the remodelling work...at least at the
times I usually pass through.

My experience of Henly's Corner is that during the peak periods the new
layout has not made any improvement. Exactly the same with the Palmers
Green/New Southgate scheme.


Those schemes were not for cars but for pedestrians and cycles. If your
experience is as a car user, you were never intended to see any
improvement. I'd say they have made things worse, because I used to use
the right turn from Natal Road to Bowes Road as part of a route which
avoided the entire jam, and this is no longer allowed.
With one proviso, I could not have put it better myself. The proviso:
the Palmers Green/New Southgate scheme was for the benefit of buses . . .
oh and of course, this being a TfL scheme, for the benefit of two suppliers of
traffic lights.

By the way, I too used to make that right turn out of Natal Road. I now turn
right at the bottom of Warwick Road.