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Stubbington Bypass

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A slightly old story but... Minister backs plan for £25m relief road to ease traffic flow (but doesn't come forward with any funding)

Previously: County gives go-ahead to Stubbington by-pass

A better bypass for Stubbington has been planned for years, and looking in to alternatives to the A32 has been going on for nearly 45 years.

Presumably the new road can link up to Lee-on-the-Solent's anti-climax bypass to form a new route in to Gosport from M27 J9. In which case, we can get ready for a 40mph S2 with many traffic lights.
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I'm having trouble seeing an obvious route for this - where would it go? From the Lee bypass, I guess it continues on that line to run up the eastern boundary of the airfield. Then where?
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I wouldn't be surprised if the "bypass" was actually a series of road improvements that created a single route along Cherque Way, Broom Way, Newgate Lane (part of which, not this bit, is already pencilled in for dualling), and then a new road broadly following Tanners Lane and Oakcroft Lane.

The free route around Stubbington itself can easily be seen, but I don't know whether past plans have ever had anything drawn up.

LOTS airfield is owned by SEEDA which should make using it to cut the corner a little easier - indeed it'll probably be them who end up paying for the road.

What would be really nice was a new NSL road from the Titchfield Gyratory, across the M27 and bypassing Whiteley for fun.
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From the SABRE Wiki: Titchfield Gyratory :


The Titchfield Gyratory is a junction on the A27. It was previously little more than two one-way roads crossing a dual carriageway, but it has become a more formal affair now, particularly now one corner of the junction has traffic lights making it very nearly a signalised roundabout.

The junction is located towards the bottom of a steep hill, with westbound (downhill) traffic having to negotiate a series of bends shortly afterwards.

The reason for the junction is that this is the

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And we can put a bus bollard on the road avoiding Whitely!

I remember reading an article at work. I then mentally paraphrased it as "We got a guy in power and stuck him in an epic traffic jam and he had a nervous break down vowed to fix it"
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In similar-but-slightly-different news: funding has been secured for a new offline road to replace Newgate Lane.

Strange times to be living in Gosport. I'll believe it when I see it.
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Consultation begins next week: current plans online here

Seems to be a nice upgrade of Newgate Lane, along with possible ideas for a bypass, and unlikely options for further road upgrades.

Since A27 work is now being tied in to the same project, it sounds like long-overdue improvements to Station Roundabout are likely, but it's difficult to see what can be done at Gudge Heath Lane, which is the real bottleneck.
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After many years in the pipeline, work has finally begun on this well needed link. Hopefully this will transform access to Gosport and put an end to the seemingly endless queues on the A32.

https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/181776 ... nally-way/
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The best plans I could find are here: https://documents.hants.gov.uk/transpor ... boards.pdf

Not all that bad though there are too many fully signalised junctions.
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That's unusual. Normally it's little roundabouts at every junction, but I guess peak-time traffic levels are high enough that there may be a constant stream of traffic along one route that would effectively block the other road.
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That's not usually an issue on S2s. Also it wouldn't explain why three of the junctions handle merges with lights rather than... merges.
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jackal wrote: Wed Jan 22, 2020 18:47 The best plans I could find are here: https://documents.hants.gov.uk/transpor ... boards.pdf

Not all that bad though there are too many fully signalised junctions.
There’s another later discussion from 2016/18 about this project that contains a link to the full planning applications etc, in my last post here:

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=35875&p=1017456&hil ... n#p1017456

(In fact there’s a few more recent mentions of the Stubbington project, it’s all a bit spread around in a few more general discussions.)

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Went past the construction site for this today. All seems to be progressing well but I have one question. Once this road is complete, is the entire B3334/B3385 corridor from Titchfield Gyratory to Gosport likely to be upgraded to an A-road as a signed alternative to the A32 for traffic heading west?
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Does anyone know if there's any plans for changes within Stubbington once the bypass is complete, particularly in the centre bit with all the shops? Seems like a good opportunity for significant public realm improvements, getting rid of the big roundabout etc.
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End of 2021 update: traffic signals in and surfacing largely complete at the Titchfield Road end but traffic still using the old alignment right now. Traffic now running on the 'new' side of the widened section of Titchfield Road, the new cut-through road at the gyratory seems fully surfaced and roundabout on Gosport Road seems to be fully surfaced with the eastbound carriageway 'kinking' around it. I can believe the Spring 2022 completion estimate.
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Took the long way home this afternoon from Gosport via Peel Common roundabout, Stubbingon and Titchfield and as far as you can see from a passing car, it all looks very near completion. Everywhere I looked seemed to have the final surface in place. The first roundabout looked all but complete, although with single line TTL in use.

Signs still say open spring 22, has anyone heard a date?
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jnty wrote: Fri May 27, 2022 10:15 Apparently this opened today: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-hampshire-61591277
The official opening was yesterday as I went past but won’t be open till next week for traffic!
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NICK 647063 wrote: Fri May 27, 2022 11:09
jnty wrote: Fri May 27, 2022 10:15 Apparently this opened today: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-hampshire-61591277
The official opening was yesterday as I went past but won’t be open till next week for traffic!
Opened on Monday 30th. Classified as B3334 throughout, and named 'Daedalus Way'. Work will now commence on the old route through the centre of Stubbington, adding capacity for active travel at the two roundabouts. https://www.hants.gov.uk/transport/tran ... provements
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SteveM wrote: Wed Jun 01, 2022 08:26
NICK 647063 wrote: Fri May 27, 2022 11:09
jnty wrote: Fri May 27, 2022 10:15 Apparently this opened today: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-hampshire-61591277
The official opening was yesterday as I went past but won’t be open till next week for traffic!
Opened on Monday 30th. Classified as B3334 throughout, and named 'Daedalus Way'. Work will now commence on the old route through the centre of Stubbington, adding capacity for active travel at the two roundabouts. https://www.hants.gov.uk/transport/tran ... provements
A curious decision to largely avoid roundabouts on the road intended for motor traffic yet retain them on the route now intended for increased walking and cycling use...
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It's not an English road scheme without roundabouts doing silly things
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