Tag Archives: Weymouth Relief Road
Weymouth Relief Road: Non-technical Summary, 1994
The zombie Weymouth Relief Road at least provides a nice illustration of how council comms developed over the decades, from the spartan monochrome typo-filled typewriter texts of the 1970s and 80s, through the gaudy desktop published factsheets of the 1990s and more cleverly designed leaflets of the 2000s to today’s website.
Improved road links for Weymouth & Portland: route options (1991)
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).
Highways and byways in Dorset 