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Traffic Flow following Portsmouth Road Closure - Jeanette Kirby (9th Dec 2014 - 10:25:57) Interested to hear your views about traffic movement across the Square following the closure of Portsmouth Road. Already had some comments that although the queues are longer along Midhurst Road the traffic across the Square seems to be flowing more easily. Any other views?

Re: Traffic Flow following Portsmouth Road Closure - Amy (9th Dec 2014 - 11:33:52) the traffic is even worse now it's shut. i wonder if that lady who crashed even gives two thoughts about how much trouble she's caused for so many people by what she's done?

Re: Traffic Flow following Portsmouth Road Closure - h (9th Dec 2014 - 11:56:21) The drivers who need the old porstmouth rd to petersfield are probably using the A3 instead why not ? Sometimes it is just habit that people follow a certain route?

Re: Traffic Flow following Portsmouth Road Closure - kayleigh (9th Dec 2014 - 13:54:20) i have found the flow of traffic is better in the evening about 6ish...but thats just my thoughts

Re: Traffic Flow following Portsmouth Road Closure - Woo (9th Dec 2014 - 14:52:22) It takes me a lot longer to get out of Longmoor Road in the evenings after work - unless anyone is crossing the zebra crossing the traffic seems to be just continuous - then you get a `numpty` who blocks the roundabout up!!

Re: Traffic Flow following Portsmouth Road Closure - gary (9th Dec 2014 - 17:05:18) living on portsmouth road is nice and quiet now but getting out in the morning into the square is tricky as people park all accross the road Remember you should not enter a roundabout if you exit is blocked and those turning into portsmouth road just remember cars still exit the road SLOW down had a couple near misses trying to exit portsmouth road speed limit still apply to a closed road so please no more driving down the middle of the road at silly speeds residents still use the road

Re: Traffic Flow following Portsmouth Road Closure - Charles (9th Dec 2014 - 18:47:36) Avoid Midhurst Road when Bohunt is opening or finishing. Look on the bright side me are just getting acclimatized for the Bohunt Manor and Chicken Farm development. Will be interest to know how Sainsburys are being effected this close to Xmas.

Re: Traffic Flow following Portsmouth Road Closure - Amy (9th Dec 2014 - 19:33:18) It's lovely living on portsmouth road now, i can have my window open and still hear my self think! Shame it wasn't this quiet in the summer aha!

Re: Traffic Flow following Portsmouth Road Closure - roo (9th Dec 2014 - 21:04:32) would the traffic using the diversion try not to get round as fast as the direct route, as the traffic using the diversion think its a race track please slow down before another road is closed by another accident

Re: Traffic Flow following Portsmouth Road Closure - H (10th Dec 2014 - 07:42:02) Newtown Road is now a high speed rat-run in the mornings. People coming up on the old A3 cannot be bothered to wait in the queue on Station Road to get out onto the Midhurst Road and are now speeding down here. It was bad enough with the Churchers 'school run mum's' and the commuters parking here all day, it's worse now. Newtown Road is an access only road not a rat- run/car park.

Re: Traffic Flow following Portsmouth Road Closure - A (11th Dec 2014 - 13:38:38) Its a nightmare

Re: Traffic Flow following Portsmouth Road Closure - M (11th Dec 2014 - 15:53:26) Sorry H, but does this excuse what this idiot has done..

Re: Traffic Flow following Portsmouth Road Closure - Simon Coyte (11th Dec 2014 - 16:06:03) Perhaps our County Councillor could get this expedited as I am sure that if the building is unsafe it will fall downwards not out wards and we could at least have half the road open with traffic lights. Come on Ferris work your Magic!

Re: Traffic Flow following Portsmouth Road Closure - Col (12th Dec 2014 - 22:44:24) One good thing is that some drivers have stopped doing over the 30mph speed limit down the Portsmouth Road since it's closure. However, I also have to say the traffic is horrendous in the village since the road closure. Surely the car crash down Portsmouth Road, and the closure of the 'old A3' just highlights how this village does not require any further over development! (I.e. housing) Can you imagine what the situation would be like with all of the proposed housing applications completed and if this was to happen again? The village will be absolute carnage!

Re: Traffic Flow following Portsmouth Road Closure - Darren (13th Dec 2014 - 12:19:19) With Portsmouth Road closed the roundabout in the Square at the junction of Haslemere Road has very little influence now as nearly all the traffic goes one way (into and out of Haslemere Road) therefore the flow through the village seems to be better (if still horrendous) at peak times. The real problem has moved to the roundabout at the junction of Haslemere and Midhurst Roads, and the resulting lengthy queues on these roads. From around 4.30 to 5.30pm I witness the queue on the Midhurst Road going back towards Station Road, and lets not forget the queue in Station Road, resulting in people using Newtown Road as a cut through even though it is a "No Vehicles" residents only street (just waiting for the Police to catch on and improve on their December ticket allocations). This is just a precursor to the likely queues on these Roads if the Chiltley Farm housing application for 100 houses is passed in January and joins the traffic from the 65 houses being built at Maple Park as we speak. All these residents trying to get to work and/or take their children to the Infants/Junior schools is likely to be more than the traffic being diverted off the Portsmouth Road. And remember the Portsmouth Road will then be open and the roundabout in the Square be operational, holding up traffic as normal, along with the likely increase in the zebra crossing use which stops all the traffic, where ever its going. You have been warned, as were BLPC when they voted "No Objection" to the Chiltley farm proposals.

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