"Stuart" wrote in message
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RW wrote:

It is about time they did something about the A406. It is absolutely
ridiculous that such a strategic trunk road linking east/north/west
London
has so many bottlenecks, resulting in absurdly long journey times and
frayed
nerves.

Some sections are OK (up to 5 lanes each way with underpasses and slip
roads) but other sections have just one lane each way and traffic lights
at
busy junctions.

It is long overdue.

The frustrating thing is that most of the ground work has been done;
houses have been bought and demolished and in the case of the Bounds
Green - Green Lanes stretch there are already extra bridge 'arches' for
the extra lanes to go.

The main problem is Henlys Corner, especially westbound. To have 2 major
road merge in and out like that is just ridiculous. either side is dual
carriageway, surely even a basic 4 lane flyover would relieve things
immensely.



Even if all 3 of the schemes did go ahead (Bounds Green - Green Lanes,
Henlys Corner and Golders Green Road) there would still not be a grade
separated route from the A40 to the A406, there is an at grade signal
controlled junction at IKEA (Drury Way/Brentfield Road) and there have been
no plans to upgrade this.