About 6 years ago I remember that a road called the "Bexley Bypass" was marked with dotted lines on a street atlas. On all of the recent ones (of the same and other make) no longer show this.

It was proposed to go from the A2 somewhere between Bean and Bexleyheath, to the North Cray Road, and Maybe the A20.

The Google Satalite image below shows the roundabout where it joined on the map (It currently serves no purpose, and I don't think that the access road to the left exists anymore.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=bexley&ll=51.435691,0.147792&spn=0.001127,0.00339&t=k

There are quite a few houses between the A2, and a few would need to be smashed away for the bypass, unless it was proposed to be built over them like a flyover.

But that is a very small and un-important reason for this major road to be left un-built. At the present time, traffic has to use the very small village of Bexley to access the A20, and towns around it, or use the M25, which is also very busy and some are BANNED from using the M25 (IE. L Drivers, Horse & Pony riders, slow moving tractors.ect).

Is there any information about this proposal?, and what are your views on it?

No doubt it was canceled eiether by TfL or Bexley Counctl however it is needed. It needed badly Bexley is way, way too busy. for just a small place, it is a nightmare at rush hour. A very bad nightmare .

Living in the area until 1982, I vaguely remember the North Cray Road being dualled and straightened in the early 1970's as the first part of a link between the (then) A20 at Ruxley Corner and the A2 at the Black Prince Interchange.
My parents & grandparents told me how narrow and windy North Cray Road had been beforehand, and how the road was transformed out of all recognition; to this day it has never carried the traffic it was planned for, and has been seen as overprovision. I remember the roundabout that occurred in the middle of nowhere for no apparent reason - other than to mark the end of "Phase 1" where the road reverts to its narrow windy condition.
With the coming of the parallel M25 Swanley to Dartford section in 1977 only a few miles away, the need for the improved A223 route diminished considerably, but the plan for the Bexley Bypass lived on for some time afterwards.

The Bexley Bypass has been marked in London Street Plans until very recently and I think this has been more of a case of A to Z optimism (which is evident in many of their national road atlases and street plans) rather than a serious near-to-construction project.

Map Extract showing Bexley Bypass proposal.

Tony

This interested me as I have a friend who lives near there, and I found the following sources of info.

The Bexley Council Unitary Development Plan contains some info about the Bexley Bypass. If you click Proposals Map at the top of the screen you can scroll around and locate the planned route of the bypass. Really hard to read the map (great for the general public, so accessible), but provides the detail...

The council seems to support it but it appears at the bottom of most of their priority lists (see here for an example).

Another site mentions that the Bexley Bypass would pass "under or over Vicarage Road without interchange", which does rule out the roundabout junction there that Tony (Brenley Corner)'s A-Z map scan shows. A bored tunnel or cut and cover, I wonder?

Reviving an ancient thread, but I came across the following Hansard link and thought this would be the best place to put it on the record.

http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/comm ... oad-sidcup

The discussion has some interesting information on the thinking behind the upgrade to the North Cray Road and also discussion around the future impact of the "South Orbital".