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A23 closed by floods, November 2000

The Pylons
Built in 1928 to mark the northern most point of the newly created borough of Brighton where the main road from London entered the town. Road widening has since isolated the right hand pillar

M27 to Brighton - 1st March 1978

A protest about a possible 'further section' of the M27 at Brighton.

From the Times Archive.

Originally uploaded to Coppermine on Jul 21, 2008 by MSAJohnny

Dyke Road

Terminus Road (C) Simon Carey
The A2010 that runs down to the station having changed its name from Buckingham Place next to the Belle Vue pub. The road gives an idea of how much of the hillside was actually excavated in 1840 when the station was originally built.

St Martin's church. Lewes Road (C) Paul Gillett

Dyke Road, BN1 (2)
South of Seven Dials.

Seven Dials (1) A view of the new layout of the road junction where seven roads cross each other. The old mini roundabout, has now been replaced by a large lozenge shaped central reservation. A vast improvement of what was there before as the wide road space would encourage drivers to try and jump into any gaps they saw making the junction an accident black spot and particularly lethal for any cyclists who dared to cross. The long shape now requires cars to slow down to a crawl in single file. It also looks nicer. This view was taken between Goldsmid Road and Vernon Terrace on a misty morning and looks towards Chatham Place with Prestonville Road to its left and Buckingham Place to the right.

Seven Dials The road junction that gives the area its current name. As suggested the roundabout in the middle is the meeting point for seven roads; Dyke Road (A2010), Buckingham Place (A2010), Chatham Place (B2120), Vernon Terrace (B2122), Goldsmid Road (B2120) and Prestonville Road the only non main road. This view looks north east taking in Chatham Place to the right, Dyke Road to the left and Prestonville Road between the two. The building on the right is a former bank that is now currently a restaurant having briefly been an unsuccessful Burger King outlet. The white building to the left was also once a bank but is now an art gallery whilst a laundry occupies the space between Chatham Place and Prestonville Road. Not surprisingly at busy times the junction can become gridlocked.

The Southwick Hill Tunnel on the A27 Brighton Bypass.

The southwestern of two concrete units in balancing pond below A27 Brighton bypass, photo taken from the top of the northeastern unit.

The southwestern unit, as seen from the rim of the pond.

Each unit has a grill at its base.

There's a pipe leading into the back of the northeastern unit, and presumably one at the back of the southwestern (which was not accessible).

Presumably the pipes deliver runoff from the bypass.

The two units appear to be identical inside. Aside from the access ladder in the background, no idea what's going on here.

Two fences, in bad repair, spaced about 30cm apart, in a line downhill toward the balancing pond. There are fragments of pipe left in the surrounding undergrowth, so I presume there's a pipe (culverted watercourse) buried between the two fences.

This fence line appears to correspond to the narrow band of HE land denoted as "RedLine_v202011: HE Title outside RedLine: Confidence: low" shown at

https://www.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=6db7a2db20d04c79ab2abe7947f8cc06&extent=-19440.9818%2C6596728.4301%2C-18425.2054%2C6597264.0865%2C102100&showLayers=RL_AGOLService_View_3561%3BRL_AGOLService_View_7514%3BHE_SRN_Carto_399%3BWorld_Imagery_679

There were numerous fragments of pipe like this along the double fence line, presumably left over from construction of culverted watercourse lying underneath and between the fences.

This fence line appears to correspond to the narrow band of HE land denoted as "RedLine_v202011: HE Title outside RedLine: Confidence: low" shown at

https://www.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=6db7a2db20d04c79ab2abe7947f8cc06&extent=-19440.9818%2C6596728.4301%2C-18425.2054%2C6597264.0865%2C102100&showLayers=RL_AGOLService_View_3561%3BRL_AGOLService_View_7514%3BHE_SRN_Carto_399%3BWorld_Imagery_679

Google satellite image of balancing pond off A27 Brighton Bypass

Highways England RedLine title boundaries relating to balancing pond on A27 Brighton Bypass

Balancing Pond at TQ287087

Crossing over new bi-directional cycle lane on Brighton's Seafront during construction.

Vogue Gyratory, Brighton A one way system opened in 1984 joining up the junctions of Upper Lewes Road, Hollingdean Roand Bear Road with Lewes Road creating possibly the worst road junction in Brighton as a result. Adding to the traffic is a filling station, see 4717067, in the island and the car park of Sainsbury's. Often congested and occasionally gridlocked it isn't a pleasant junction to negotiate. There was talk of demolishing all buildings in the middle and reconstituting the junction but when work did occur all that has happened is clearer cycle lanes have been added, which given the route to the universities was probably needed as the old junction was dangerous for cyclists. Viewed from the car park at Sainsbury's and looking towards the Bear Inn. The fencing on the right marks the site of the Allen Arms an old pub that spent its last years changing its name with increasing regularity before finally being demolished to be replaced by student flats.

Cycle lane along Madeira Drive, Brighton

The old cycle lane on the pavement was installed in about 2004 as part of the NCN2, however in summer 2021 it was relocated onto the road by making the road one-way and removing some parking.

The one on the pavement was mostly 2.5m wide, and the new one is upto 4.3m wide, with the majority of it being over 3.5m wide.

King's Road promenade NCN 2 shares the narrow promenade at this pinch point which often leads to conflicts between pedestrians and cyclists, especially during the summer

 

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