> JNugent wrote:

>> Brimstone wrote:

>>> 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??

>> You would have thought so, wouldn't you?
>>
>> But this isn't France or Germany. Sadly - and as you well know - this
>> country is full of examples of badly-needed bypasses and link roads
>> the necessity of which was established decades ago.
>>
>> 1994 - 2008 is actually quite quick for a British road improvement
>> scheme.

>
> You still haven't said why you think the Weymouth Relief Road "is obviously
> very much needed"?