M275 declassification

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A72
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Re: M275 declassification

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Bryn666 wrote: Thu Jan 06, 2022 23:31Architects are increasingly trying their hands at traffic engineering with predictable results
A bit like this prat:https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/ ... LdUpas1uLA
The 7-Zone Challenge
A roads: 71/71
B roads: 181/181
Total: 252/252

Completed: 04/11/20.
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Peter350 wrote: Fri Jan 07, 2022 21:06 Is there anything stopping developers from building in between the slip roads of existing GSJs? Because if not, why couldn’t they just leave the junction alone and build their tin sheds in between the slip roads as illustrated below?

The railway triangle about a mile to the east manages to fit in an industrial estate with a bridge over the eastern side to access it, so this is proof that such an arrangement could work.

Orange - access roads
Brown - areas for residential development
I think that land would be better purposed for mitigation solutions. Drainage tanks, Tree planting etc rather than putting people between slip roads. It will only be a matter of time before people would start trying to walk across them & imagine the noise!
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Re: M275 declassification

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I consider this to be a retrograde step. The M275 was built to provide a fast link between Portsmouth city centre and the M27 and A27 and to relieve the A3, which even in the seventies, had become very congested.
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