> JNugent wrote:

>> Brimstone wrote:

>>> JNugent wrote:

>>>> Brimstone wrote:
>>>>

>>>>> JNugent wrote:

>>>>>> Weymouth Relief Road
>>>>>> In brief: A 3.75-mile road north of Weymouth in Dorset which
>>>>>> ...is obviously very much needed.

>>>>> Why?

>>>> Have you ever encountered the term "Relief Road" before?

>>> Yes, and I'm familar with the Weymouth situation having lived there.
>>>
>>> So, I repeat, why do you think the Weymouth Relief Road "is
>>> obviously very much needed"?

>> As I understand it, the proposal is for a relatively short stretch of
>> new road bypassing the existing A354 and part of A353 from north of
>> Weymouth to the dock area. The relieved stretches run past many
>> hundreds of homes, and right through the centre of the town.
>>
>> You're probably right - who ever heard of a scheme to relieve
>> residential roads and town centres of heavy traffic? What *is* the
>> point? Surely all those residents WANT the "buzz" of traffic past
>> their homes all day and night? Surely they must relish the gridlock
>> around the A354 / A353 junction?
>>
>> Why would anyone want to do anything to change that? It's madness, I
>> tell you!

> You quite obviously don't know Weymouth.

> Such a road was under discussion when I lived there in 1994. If it was
> "obviously very much needed" don't you think it would have had greater loacl
> support and been built, or at least well under way, by now??