Midhenhall roundabout traffic lights
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Yuxi said:
What a crock of s
t, north bound on the A11 Friday evening, 3 mile queue for the roundabout every Friday since they have been switched on, journey is no quicker than before the dual carriageway was opened
Yup, fortunately I'm usually going the other way.t, north bound on the A11 Friday evening, 3 mile queue for the roundabout every Friday since they have been switched on, journey is no quicker than before the dual carriageway was openedTraffic lights on roundabouts piss me right off, but this implementation seems exceptionally bad - traffic being held on the roundabout blocks the A11 east bound traffic. I can't see any easy solution (except turn them off). Really the entire thing needs yellow boxing, but then we'll be back to what it was before.
Bowing to the locals was stupid, and its caused utter chaos. Fixing it would mean a proper flyover for the through route. Sadly, that'd cost money.
It certainly is a bizarre layout!
I suppose the idea being to make it easier to get on the roundabout from Mildehall and the A1065 southbound. However, it's turned into a bit of a nightmare. There are no lights to join it from the A1065 side, only half way over, which only blocks up the whole lot!
They need lights there which are synchronised with the ones in the middle.
I suppose the idea being to make it easier to get on the roundabout from Mildehall and the A1065 southbound. However, it's turned into a bit of a nightmare. There are no lights to join it from the A1065 side, only half way over, which only blocks up the whole lot!
They need lights there which are synchronised with the ones in the middle.
I used to live in Brandon and used to travel to Cambridge every day for work, and that roundabout has been a bottleneck for years. The same chaos happened when they put the lights in at Elveden.
A mate in work lives in Beck Row and we were chatting about it, and both of us predicted huge queues there. It needs flyovers or tunnels, lights will never be the answer.
A mate in work lives in Beck Row and we were chatting about it, and both of us predicted huge queues there. It needs flyovers or tunnels, lights will never be the answer.
eccles said:
I used to live in Brandon and used to travel to Cambridge every day for work, and that roundabout has been a bottleneck for years. The same chaos happened when they put the lights in at Elveden.
A mate in work lives in Beck Row and we were chatting about it, and both of us predicted huge queues there. It needs flyovers or tunnels, lights will never be the answer.
It needs a lot round there, and previous, travel entering the roundabout from Mildenhall could end up queuing for a long time especially if a doodler was in front of them so it's helped the people from Mildenhall, as for the the A11 traffic North and Southband they have small memories(or are too young to remember) how bad that roundabout was prior to the dualling to Thetford. The first place that needs sorting is the complete fA mate in work lives in Beck Row and we were chatting about it, and both of us predicted huge queues there. It needs flyovers or tunnels, lights will never be the answer.
k up from traffic crossing the road from Tuddenham, this is is very dangerous and have been numerous fatalities over the years, next the junction at the bottom of Chalk Hill which is a accident blackspot with traffic risking their lives to get across or join this fast stretch of road also coming off this junction from the A11 you run the risk of being shunted up the arse as you have to take it so slow because it's too sharp for a fast stretch of road which is crazy as the old part of road is still there which would of made a good slip road rather than the death trap they have in place.Raygun said:
eccles said:
I used to live in Brandon and used to travel to Cambridge every day for work, and that roundabout has been a bottleneck for years. The same chaos happened when they put the lights in at Elveden.
A mate in work lives in Beck Row and we were chatting about it, and both of us predicted huge queues there. It needs flyovers or tunnels, lights will never be the answer.
It needs a lot round there, and previous, travel entering the roundabout from Mildenhall could end up queuing for a long time especially if a doodler was in front of them so it's helped the people from Mildenhall, as for the the A11 traffic North and Southband they have small memories(or are too young to remember) how bad that roundabout was prior to the dualling to Thetford. The first place that needs sorting is the complete fA mate in work lives in Beck Row and we were chatting about it, and both of us predicted huge queues there. It needs flyovers or tunnels, lights will never be the answer.
k up from traffic crossing the road from Tuddenham, this is is very dangerous and have been numerous fatalities over the years, next the junction at the bottom of Chalk Hill which is a accident blackspot with traffic risking their lives to get across or join this fast stretch of road also coming off this junction from the A11 you run the risk of being shunted up the arse as you have to take it so slow because it's too sharp for a fast stretch of road which is crazy as the old part of road is still there which would of made a good slip road rather than the death trap they have in place.As the system is at present, the local traffic should just sit and wait for a gap - The A11 is the main artery into east Anglia, and it should be treated as such. The priority has to be the through traffic, speeding freight and people to and from the east. Its all very well saying "it's helped the people from Mildenhall" if it's adding 30 minutes to the Cambridge->Norwich run. Which it is, at certain times of the week.
Grandad Gaz said:
The closer we get to summer, the worse this gets. Unbelievably bad northbound on a Friday afternoon!
Google has started to divert me down Newmarket road in the afternoon, cuts past most of the jam. Inevitably get caught at Thetford A11-A134 though, beats me why A road traffic is prioritised over MWay 
.Grandad Gaz said:
The closer we get to summer, the worse this gets. Unbelievably bad northbound on a Friday afternoon!
This Friday just gone the traffic had backed up to the Red Lodge/Worlington exit, I was only going to Barton Mills village so come off at that exit to go through Worlington, it took half hour to get from Worlington to Barton Mills(distance about 1 mile), wish I'd stayed on the A11.Mildenhall and the surrounding villages seems to have cornered the market in traffic lights.
Raygun said:
Grandad Gaz said:
The closer we get to summer, the worse this gets. Unbelievably bad northbound on a Friday afternoon!
This Friday just gone the traffic had backed up to the Red Lodge/Worlington exit, I was only going to Barton Mills village so come off at that exit to go through Worlington, it took half hour to get from Worlington to Barton Mills(distance about 1 mile), wish I'd stayed on the A11.Mildenhall and the surrounding villages seems to have cornered the market in traffic lights.
Any normal Friday was bad, add on a bank holiday or special occasion and it would be worse.
eccles said:
Raygun said:
Grandad Gaz said:
The closer we get to summer, the worse this gets. Unbelievably bad northbound on a Friday afternoon!
This Friday just gone the traffic had backed up to the Red Lodge/Worlington exit, I was only going to Barton Mills village so come off at that exit to go through Worlington, it took half hour to get from Worlington to Barton Mills(distance about 1 mile), wish I'd stayed on the A11.Mildenhall and the surrounding villages seems to have cornered the market in traffic lights.
Any normal Friday was bad, add on a bank holiday or special occasion and it would be worse.
k of a junction!eccles said:
Raygun said:
Grandad Gaz said:
The closer we get to summer, the worse this gets. Unbelievably bad northbound on a Friday afternoon!
This Friday just gone the traffic had backed up to the Red Lodge/Worlington exit, I was only going to Barton Mills village so come off at that exit to go through Worlington, it took half hour to get from Worlington to Barton Mills(distance about 1 mile), wish I'd stayed on the A11.Mildenhall and the surrounding villages seems to have cornered the market in traffic lights.
Any normal Friday was bad, add on a bank holiday or special occasion and it would be worse.
In Mildenhall they've had a set of traffic lights round the Bell hotel for ages now but Forest Heath Council seem useless on getting them to 'hurry up and get the things moved' due to a payment issue add in to the fact with the various sets of lights being used to put a cable in from Burwell Power Station to RAF Lakenheath it really has been a place to avoid if I could.
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