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!
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Stalbridge Traffic Management Consultation, 2000
By 2000, the new realism was beginning to sink in and the bypasses were on the shelf. Instead, it’s all tinkering with the S106 contributions. This one went ahead, but some of the pavement buildouts were quietly rolled back a few years later, as far as I know without consultation.
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.