The recently published
Environmental Impact Assessment - Scoping Report includes drawings for the revised junctions.
The good: The A2 junction has been redesigned as a high speed semi-directional T. No complaints whatsoever.
The bad: The new junction at the north end of the tunnel is a two-bridge roundabout, even though it only has three arms. I suspect the empty side is earmarked for development. No image required, you know what a two-bridge roundabout looks like.
The ugly: The A13 junction did look like this:
It has been redesigned as... this thing:
Comparing the new design to the old one you can see the following:
+ A13 east<>LTC south movements are now freeflow, with the left turn braided to remove weaving with the onslip from Orsett Cock roundabout.
- Instead of being freeflow, all the A1089 movements go through a roundabout, which also has the A1013 going through it, lengthening journey times on both roads, and in particular from London to the docks.
- It looks like you can't do the reverse movement, or A1089<>A13 east, at all! What were they thinking?
- Even worse, the A13wb>LTCnb movement has also been lost, defeating a major purpose of the entire scheme - relief of M25 J30 and the M25 and A13 adjacent to it.
- In general, it looks like the plan is to stuff missing movements through the new roundabout and Orsett Cock, new congestion blackspots in the making.
No. Just no.
