Tag Archives: 1980s
Wareham Bypass Stage 2 and Norden Improvement, 1988
1983 Structure Plan
Schemes that happened (highlighted) and schemes that didn’t happen, plus the usual afterthought about public transport. Back then, of course, there was no need to pay lip service to “active travel” in such documents. And it’s delightfully concise and matter-of-fact, really, compared with today’s equivalents which are all aspiration and no intention.
Pedestrians at bay
Well this one amused me. Council build big new urban road, take no account of pedestrians in designing it. But pedestrians want to continue walking to where they want to go, so do. Arms race of anti-pedestrian defences ensues.
It must be from somewhere around 1988-90ish.
Tunnel vision: a Corfe Castle Bypass, 1984
From 1984, a consultation on alternative options for a Corfe Castle Bypass. Five routes that would create catastrophic destruction to this chocolate box village (two of them blocking the subsequent extension of the heritage railway which is such an important part of the village’s tourism economy today) and/or drive massive scars through the chalk hills, leading to the obvious choice for local consultees: a prohibitively expensive tunnel. Which will be why a bypass on this dead-end road to Swanage always remained on the shelf.
Highways and byways in Dorset 