Red Option
One way traffic in The Square, east to west
- Single lane layout for traffic moving from High St direction towards West St and North St. Traffic from North St would go south via West St and Croft Way.
- This would increase space for pedestrians and allow for two additional trees, defining The Square as a pleasant green focus to the town centre.
- A delivery and pick-up bay would be marked by planters or bollards.
- A bus shelter could be installed, reinforcing the pedestrian character of the space.
Note: This phase of consultation has now ended. You can still read the comments that people made, but you will not be able to add further comments. The sub-group will now consider all the feed-back and produce draft final proposals for consultation in March.
- What do you like about the Red Option?
- What do you dislike about the Red Option?
- Are there any changes you would make to the Red Option?
The one way system causing more traffic along west street
I agree. Better to have West Street one way and leave the Square two way.
This is a terrible option and would cause major problems with large and long vehicles
I like the fact that it is one way through the square, this should both provide parking for the shops and keep traffic by avoiding the chaos which the parked cars on the double yellow lines currently cause.
I think that having 2 way traffic through the bottle neck between London house and the white heart all diverted from north street will cause huge traffic problems while people que to pass each other
I would also make west street one way, continuing along from the square to west road. This would avoid creating a busy 2 way bottle neck between London house and the white heart and also make west street traffic flow better.
Does not resolve the traffic issues in West Street.
This option would make West Street much busier because it forces all of the cars coming from North Street to go down West Street leave town. I can foresee massive problems at the bottleneck beside London House. It really makes more sense to have he main traffic flow going through the Square and High Street
The new trees in the square
The ‘West Street would have more pressure with traffic and the turning into North street even tighter
It doesn’t solve the bottleneck issues in West St.
The one way traffic system would increase the issues on west street and increase traffic through northbrook road as an alternative route
Who on earth thought of the pavement build outs? Have you seen the size and congestion of some of the traffic? Terrible idea.
The stuff of nightmares! How on earth will traffic get in and out of West Street from North St with causing monumental queues? Has anyone thought about fire appliance responses? What about a delivery LGV exiting from the High St – is the two way traffic in West St (which is bad even on a good day) suddenly disappear to let an LGV/bus get through? If they do, they will still have to contend with trying to turn left onto Croft way.
Whilst a nice idea, West sStreet is not up to the job – It is funnelling additional traffic down a small bottleneck – it would be a nightmare!
This would only work in conjunction with making West Street one-way as well, but has the issue that all traffic is then diverted down the already too narrow West Street, increasing issues for pedestrians.
This fails to deal with the traffic need to leave Wivey and forces vehicles into the very narrow West Street, increasing issues for pedestrians there.
Traffic turning right from North Street To West Street with the enhanced pavement !!
A disaster for the large vehicles from the filter station, tractors and the fire engine to name three commercial categories… and why make a bottleneck at the top of Town Hill
I think the increased traffic in West Street due to the one way system would cause more congestion
Traffic will just speed up on the one-way section which is where most people/children are crossing the road.
It doesn’t help with deliveries blocking the road, nor parking.
there isn’t room for two-way traffic down past the butchers.
Encouraging traffic down Golden Hill – not good.
Delivery bay still blocking flow and making road crossing unsafe.
pedestrian road crossing required between co-op and Pharmacy
Reduced ie one way traffic would be good although none would be better. More trees = better.
As per the rest of the options this is still seeming to be all about traffic and not actually about making the square a place for people, a destination, a venue, somewhere beautiful to be , to eat , drink and shop.
A bit of as halfway house. It might cause more problems than it solves. Like the trees, but dont see it reducing traffic volumes
Surely this would impact traffic going to golden hill, etc?
One way through the Square, but 2 way down West Street seems odd. The buses and delivery drivers constantly get stuck due to poor parking there, which snarls up the Square.
Make a full one-way loop around West Street to increase parking. Add off road parking / delivery bays on the Square.
This is a very poor option. The knock on impact to Silver Street and Golden Hill might be severe. All traffic from the north of Wivey will have to travel west down West Street so it would make more sense to also make West Street one way.
But a big concern would be access by Fire Engines, the bus and other large vehicles
Narrower one way lane should stop all parking in the square
Think the raised platform area would slow traffic. Also more these to enhance ambieance.