How bad is the traffic into FoS these days?

How bad is the traffic into FoS these days?

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SiKkBaSs

47 posts

173 months

Friday 13th July 2018
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Leaving Gillingham Kent at 7am which should get us in there for about 10 latest with a pit stop in between for coffee.

What’s the best time to leave do you think? We’ve got a hotel nearby so just don’t want to get caught in the traffic leaving...

WJNB

2,637 posts

160 months

Saturday 14th July 2018
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Lord Marylebone said:
I thought 'this is insane' and had a look at the map, turned off and took at completely direct route though Chicester, ignored about 10 'Road closed' signs, zipped though a load of country lanes and by some miracle came out right by the car park entrance.
Thanks
You're not alone. Done this for years & years. The closed signs are only there to filter traffic away from the front doors of the rich darlings who live in the locality.
The roads/lanes are never physically closed & as you have experienced using them will often bring you to near to the front of a car park queue.
A marshal may glare or try to give you a hard time as you filter into a queue but unless they are local themselves they couldn't care a toss.
Mind you one year the road closed signs may be manned by the local angry brigade waving their walking sticks.

No ideas for a name

2,160 posts

85 months

Saturday 14th July 2018
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WJNB said:
The closed signs are only there to filter traffic away from the front doors of the rich darlings who live in the locality.
The roads/lanes are never physically closed
Bad plan.
Thursday morning on the way in on New Road (which was use both lanes), some idiot ignored the signs and pulled out in to my path. Managed to miss them, but close to being a head-on. I think they looked right whilst turning left and pulled in to incomming traffic.

antspants

2,401 posts

174 months

Monday 16th July 2018
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Cheers for the travel advice earlier in the thread. We left Leicester earlier than originally intended at 5.30am and arrived in Chichester at the hotel just after 8. Parked the car then went down to the train station and jumped on the shuttle bus and inside FOS by 8.45am. Apart from a little bit of traffic on the bus it was all smooth sailing thumbup


Simes205

4,527 posts

227 months

Monday 16th July 2018
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In at 7, left at 19:30.
No queues.