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Hollycombe Steam Trains - Dawn Hoskins (2nd Jun 2010 - 16:00:56) I have helped out two lots of lost tourists this week. One in Station Road shops and the other in the layby outside the Anchor. They had been trying to follow the brown tourist signs for Hollycombe but found it impossible. Does anyone know why it is not signposted in the village?

Re: Hollycombe Steam Trains - sam (4th Jun 2010 - 01:42:27) I believe there is a signpost adjacent to station road, and one in the square? Signposts cost money though, and there are obviously locals happy to point tourists in the right direction so signs left, right and center are probably a waste of money when Hollycombe is afterall a charity.

Re: Hollycombe Steam Trains - dawn (5th Jun 2010 - 13:26:35) Yes, it is a charity, but - it is one on the only attractions actively directing people through our village. IMO to show them how to get off the A3 and then leave them stranded in the square isn't a very good impression. I realize things cost money, of course I do, and am only too happy to rescue stranded tourists when the need arises, but this is a good opportunity to get 'newbies' to call in at our shops etc - especially if they are directed down Station Road. If this is a transport (highways) issue I will ask for it to be put on the agenda at the next Parish Meeting. Although - I think the issue of sign posting to Station Road has been rumbling on for years without anything productive resulting - so very unlikely to see anything being done! Maybe the Steam place can make their own signs?

Re: Hollycombe Steam Trains - Eneida (5th Jun 2010 - 16:08:54) Where is Hollycombe? If a tourist asked me I wouldn't have the slightest idea!! [editor - down the Midhurst Road - see Google Map]

Re: Hollycombe Steam Trains - Sue D (6th Jun 2010 - 23:07:16) There is a large brown tourist sign for Hollycombe outside Lloyds Bank and another at the mini roundabout by Kelway Law directing people along the Midhurst Road. Plenty of signage I would have thought for 'stranded' tourists!

Re: Hollycombe Steam Trains - liz (7th Jun 2010 - 11:00:09) .. And yet another sign on one of the new roundabouts near Sainsburys.

Re: Hollycombe Steam Trains - sw (7th Jun 2010 - 11:44:54) Perhaps the problem is not the signposts, but the route they are sending them?. Our busy road systems, junctions and roundabouts just dont give people (visitors) time to look at signposts, when negotiating this weaving route. Your eyes are concentrating on other road users and pedestrians that at times seem to be coming from all directions and stepping off pavements 'willy nilly'. Perhaps Dawns suggestion of directing them down the old A3 to Station Road and then onto the Midhurst road would make much more sense? Keeps additional traffic away from busier and less direct (with roundabouts) routes?

Re: Hollycombe Steam Trains - liz (7th Jun 2010 - 13:34:36) You would need just as many signposts on the alternative route for those people who can't cope with driving and reading traffic signs at the same time! On a less flippant note all these signs can be seen well before you have to negotiate the roundabouts.

Re: Hollycombe Steam Trains - sw (7th Jun 2010 - 17:33:50) Hi Liz Must be easier to direct them from the square down the portsmouth road, left into station road, right onto to Midhurst road rather than first roundabout - first exit, second roundabout, second exit, third roundabout third exit fourth roundabout second exit to get to the same place? Must say when the original signs were up, There was only one roundabout then - the road has changed quite a bit, perhaps its time to change the route? People are always complaining about traffic, just seems a fairly simple solution to two problems?

Re: Hollycombe Steam Trains - liz (8th Jun 2010 - 08:43:59) Personally I would have thought it safer and quicker to negotiate the roundabouts than drive down Station Road when it is even mildly busy with the right turn at the end next with poor visibility next to the railway bridge. (Which is presumably why the other route has been chosen.)

Re: Hollycombe Steam Trains - P Weyland (8th Jun 2010 - 15:38:18) You'd think in todays age of satnav, Multimap and Google Earth no-one would get lost. Ever.

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