Will new junction cope with increased traffic?
On 04/10/2014 At 1:42 am
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THAME Town Council is not happy with the new layout of the junction at Wenman Road with Thame Park Road, fearing that the existing road network will not be able to cope with the extra traffic generated from the new housing development coming soon close by.
The junction at Wenman Road and Thame Park Road, Thame
Though the council has said that it will continue to support the proposals for the site, known as Site C in the Neighbourhood Plan, it has asked the developer who will be building new houses in the fields close by, Taylor Wimpey, for ‘further clarification’ on how the roads around the area would be able to cope with the increased traffic movement.
The council’s recommendation to approve the proposed development and amendments, with its additional comments, will now be sent to South Oxfordshire District Council for its Planning Committee’s decision.
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This new junction layout doomed from the start, it’s a very dangerous junction to use, one crash happened on it not long after it was opened (probably because it wasn’t well signposted about the change). To add insult to injury whilst these works were carried out the two pretty big pot holes leading to the junction were left untouched….
A very dangerous junction now, the other day there was a telephone engineers large van parked on the left completely blocking what little vision you have to turn right I was also puzzled for a few seconds as to who had priority at the junction, needs sorting quickly as I believe there has already been an accident recently.
I emailed Thame Town Council regarding this dangerous road layout in June this year which was forwarded to OCC highways ( haven’t heard from them) It is not down to Taylor Wimpey to rectify this dangerous road junction.
With or without the new homes due to be built, the road layout is just the most ill thought out design I have seen in a long time. It’s an accident waiting to happen and I cannot believe someone was stupid enough to sign off on the plans in the first place. It shouldn’t be down to Taylor Wimpey to show how they will improve it.
It’s down to the moron who originally thought it was a good idea to fix the problem. When the work began we all assumed that finally someone was using their brain and thinking ahead to the new home and putting a small roundabout there.
The new layout is dreadful if you are coming from Wenman Rd to turn right you can not see far enough round to the left to see if any traffic is coming, I had a couple of near misses , It will become a nightmare and death trap with all those new flats there , Sort it out quickly !
Only now is the council worrying about traffic from Site C?! It was obvious from the moment that Site C appeared in the draft Neighbourhood Plan that traffic to and from it would be an issue for the town. It would have been better to allocate these houses to a site nearer the town centre and with better links to the road network such as Site F on the Oxford rd. Site C is not a very sustainable site to develop.