Hindhead Tunnel IF/When?

[Rotor]

Should It not be open by now?
P.

[.Mark]

Slight delay in electrical testing I understand, but still hoping for first half of July.

I hope so - taking the Cerbera to Kent on Saturday

[Rotor]

Ohh look forward to the video, please kind Sir!

[thebutch]

I believe it is due to be open within the next couple of weeks. I have just bought a house in the Hindhead area so was hoping to take full advantage of 1.1 miles of noise tube!.... shame I had to sell the car to buy the house

[.Mark]

Rotor said:

Ohh look forward to the video, please kind Sir!

Reading the above seems I might be too early.

[.Mark]

Rotor said:

Ohh look forward to the video, please kind Sir!

Think I can do a 'spotted' on you too - Park Gate yesterday evening?

[tjw110]

Any ideas on the, "safety monitoring" in the tunnel?

[chr55y]

tjw110 said:

Any ideas on the, "safety monitoring" in the tunnel?

Ty, probably lots of it as they heard you were waiting to zoom on through

[Gingerbread Man]

Paper said Wednesday 6th so it should be open, but wait one second, it's not. Surprise surprise.

The signs say July, but I think they are currently covered over, so expect it to open next year.

The problem will then be Ham Barn roundabout which was built to slow traffic for Hindhead (or some Hindhead related thing), but wasn't put into the original scheme of works, so they aren't taking it out, so it'll become the new Hindhead bottleneck until they do.

[Rotor]

.Mark said:

Think I can do a 'spotted' on you too - Park Gate yesterday evening?

Nope not ME ?
Was out and about on Sunday though, Beaulieu Mazda meet on Sunday but otherwise its sits in the garage most of the time

[Rotor]

Gingerbread Man said:

Paper said Wednesday 6th so it should be open, but wait one second, it's not. Surprise surprise.

The signs say July, but I think they are currently covered over, so expect it to open next year.

The problem will then be Ham Barn roundabout which was built to slow traffic for Hindhead (or some Hindhead related thing), but wasn't put into the original scheme of works, so they aren't taking it out, so it'll become the new Hindhead bottleneck until they do.

Just wait till you get near Guildford and slow down for where the Hogsback joins with all the extra trafic you'll be queing back for some distance I should think?

Edited by Rotor on Wednesday 13th July 17:01

[.Mark]

Rotor said:

Gingerbread Man said:

Paper said Wednesday 6th so it should be open, but wait one second, it's not. Surprise surprise.

The signs say July, but I think they are currently covered over, so expect it to open next year.

The problem will then be Ham Barn roundabout which was built to slow traffic for Hindhead (or some Hindhead related thing), but wasn't put into the original scheme of works, so they aren't taking it out, so it'll become the new Hindhead bottleneck until they do.

Just wait till you get near Guildford and slow down for where the Hogsback joins with all the extra trafic you'll be queing back for some distance I should think?

Edited by Rotor on Wednesday 13th July 17:01

This was my thought, it'll be great having a tunnel, but pretty sure it'll just move the queue to the Hogs Back.

[.Mark]

Rotor said:

.Mark said:

Think I can do a 'spotted' on you too - Park Gate yesterday evening?

Nope not ME ?
Was out and about on Sunday though, Beaulieu Mazda meet on Sunday but otherwise its sits in the garage most of the time

Amazing, there is another looking pretty similar. I didn't see a front plate on it and now I think about it, it may have been a darker red. But very similar.

[Hayley190]

The lady I work with lives near the tunnel and she said southbound would open on the 20th July and Northbound on the 24th.

I'm not sure what paper she read this in though, I'm sure it will change before then anyway!

[Hayley190]

The lady I work with lives near the tunnel and she said southbound would open on the 20th July and Northbound on the 24th.

I'm not sure what paper she read this in though, I'm sure it will change before then anyway!

[Thejimreaper]

thebutch said:

I believe it is due to be open within the next couple of weeks. I have just bought a house in the Hindhead area so was hoping to take full advantage of 1.1 miles of noise tube!.... shame I had to sell the car to buy the house

Do you regret it yet, what you going to get instead dude!

[spike ST500]

will have Specs cameras, and a varable speed limit from what I've read

[Landshark]

spike ST500 said:

will have Specs cameras, and a varable speed limit from what I've read

Yes SPECS camera's

Only two limits, 70mph and 40mph.

[thebutch]

Thejimreaper said:

thebutch said:

I believe it is due to be open within the next couple of weeks. I have just bought a house in the Hindhead area so was hoping to take full advantage of 1.1 miles of noise tube!.... shame I had to sell the car to buy the house

Do you regret it yet, what you going to get instead dude!

I do indeed, I am seriously missing having something with a bit of poke! Not sure what it will be getting replaced with yet, depends what little funds are left once the house has all gone through and all the essentials have been purchased??

How you getting on with your property hunt?

[phelix]

Gingerbread Man said:

... Ham Barn roundabout which was built to slow traffic for Hindhead (or some Hindhead related thing)...

Having never known the name of that roundabout till now I did a quick google and stumbled across a link that states "The Ham Barn roundabout was installed for the benefit of a defence programme that is no longer in use (to facilitate the movement of Cruise Missiles traveling north) and there is now no need for vehicles to be able to come off the A3 at that point." That's the first I've ever heard of that despite living in the area since 1992 - anyone else ever hear this? (The full link is http://selborne.parish.hants.gov.uk/pdf/120308mins... )