05 Jun 2015, 7:33 am
#341
(05 Jun 2015, 6:51 am)JakeSavage At the moment the there's only a short 2-lane stacking area. This will be increased, I think back to cortina avenue (?).
I know what you mean now, usually after the traffic island on chester road/Cortina avenue theres 2 lanes of traffic flow to the roundabout at rush hour, but the problem is theres a high percentage of traffic wanting to go straight over the roundabout onto the Broadway, so the traffic in the right lane either tries to nip in on the exit or goes right around the roundabout until the broadway turn off or traffic nips up Nookside then pennywell road onto grindon mill roundabout. I remember in the late 80's and into the 90's with busways 800's and 300's on the 15 and 16 service, that the bus driver used to go on the right lane and take the bus on a merry go round right round the roundabout until its turn off instead of sitting in the traffic for ages. don't think the gas buses got the turning circle to get all the way round the roundabout from the town into springwell road.
