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Travelling to Gatwick from London, tomorrow (11/6/09)
On Jun 10, 10:41*pm, Roland Perry wrote: In message , at 19:18:39 on Wed, 10 Jun 2009, neverwas remarked: Starting from there, the M11 and Dartford crossing seem somewhat bizarre. I suggested it on the principle that the sooner he's on a major dual carriageway headed out of London the better. That's a logical enough rationale - however as soon as one is south of the Blackwall Tunnel one is on a dual carriageway headed out of London, whether that be the A2 or A20 - and these roads are a world away from the A24 that trudges due south through south London! And going south through the Dartford tunnel is arguably heading out of London - though then again, so is going north! However I wouldn't say either direction was heading into London - though of course that's just what some traffic will be doing. The Blackwall Tunnel is where I'd imagine the greatest potential for getting held up is - but the predominant flow in the morning is south to north. Also, ever since the tidal flow system was stopped in 2007 as a result of safety concerns the southbound carriageway has regained its lost lane - the tidal flow worked by making the southbound (eastern) bore two way, so northbound traffic got three lanes and southbound traffic only got one. There was no equivalent system in the evening peak. This obviously means less capacity for northbound traffic compared to before, but it eased things for southbound traffic. Incidentally Boris made an election pledge to reverse this decision and re-instate the tidal flow, but not much has been heard about it in more recent times, I think essentially because the Met Police aren't having it. The real world is of course a little more complicated than the world according to Boris's blusterings. Anyway Tom Barry summarised the situation a year ago like this: http://www.boriswatch.co.uk/2008/06/...olitan-police/ It's interesting to note that 'motorists friend' Boris cancelled the Thames Gateway bridge (or at least shelved it - such plans are never cancelled forever!), whilst car hater Ken was a big proponent of it - said bridge would have provided an element of relief for the Blackwall Tunnel. To be fair, the Thames Gateway bridge story is rather more complicated than that and so can't really be summarised nice and neatly in a sentence or two - in fact it's on my list of utl threads to initiate when I get a mo! |
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Travelling to Gatwick from London, tomorrow (11/6/09)
On Jun 11, 1:26*am, Mizter T wrote: On Jun 10, 10:41*pm, Roland Perry wrote: In message , at 19:18:39 on Wed, 10 Jun 2009, neverwas remarked: Starting from there, the M11 and Dartford crossing seem somewhat bizarre. I suggested it on the principle that the sooner he's on a major dual carriageway headed out of London the better. That's a logical enough rationale - however as soon as one is south of the Blackwall Tunnel one is on a dual carriageway headed out of London, whether that be the A2 or A20 - and these roads are a world away from the A24 that trudges due south through south London! [snip] Argh - I meant the *A23*. Damn road numbers! |
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