Having built the A354 Weymouth Town Centre Relief Road in the mid 1980s, and intending to extend it north as the Weymouth Relief Road, laurels couldn’t be rested on. Things turned south, as proposals were made to lay a similarly big road across the old Portland Railway through Rodwell — now instead the lovely, calm, green Rodwell rail trail walking and cycling path, thankfully!
From the many decades spent drawing and redrawing Weymouth relief roads. One of those killed off by the new realism, Weymouth’s hosting 2012 Olympic events meant that something like the Orange route eventually did get built (but scaled back to single carriageway and with slightly better attempts to make it an actual relief road rather than the typical 1980s pump more traffic in road).
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.
Highways and byways in Dorset 