Bryn666 wrote: ↑Wed Sep 15, 2021 22:38Looking at GSV that has all the hallmarks of 1990s mentality - development not managed properly by the council planning team defaulting to DB32 cul-de-sacs facing away from the boulevard, and also... were they building an urban boulevard or a bypass? It's got no motive, it's just bland crap planning that serves nobody.M19 wrote: ↑Wed Sep 15, 2021 22:26 The A43 Moulton Bypass was designed with a 40mph speed limit as the expectation was that this stretch of new dual carriageway would have development frontage with tree planted verges to create a boulevard. Hence the character of the route would make 40mph self enforcing.
The engineers however have ruined the design. There are no verges. Housing areas are fenced off, the central median is tarmac and there are no verges. The heightened degree of segregation between development and the road that you would normally expect for faster dual carriageways makes the 40mph limit feel like a joke and most i.e. a good 90% will drive it at 50mph, if not faster. This is what happens when engineers dismiss place making efforts and stick rigidly to DMRB in a context where Manual for Streets ought to be applied.
The aim is for the A43 to be dualled between Northampton and Kettering. Going by the current thinking it will rely on a linear expansion of development along the whole corridor to achieve it. A line of suburbia to fund a road upgrade.
What happened to improving road corridors without expecting developers to pay for it? The current thinking only results in fudged development routes are overwhelmed with traffic from day one, rather than routes that simply need to be improved to do the job of making traffic move smoothly, unhindered by millions of crap junctions.