Aberdeen bypass - Good or Bad?
Discussion
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/north_east/842...
Just been given the greenlight.
Personally I think it'll be great and long overdue.
Just been given the greenlight.
Personally I think it'll be great and long overdue.
The ring road is decades overdue. Will it improve the conjestion, I would doubt it, the infrastructure as a whole needs to improve.. dramatically.
BUT finally the Aberdeenshire have realised they need to look ahead in years/ decades rather than year to year, that is at least a step in the right direction.
BUT finally the Aberdeenshire have realised they need to look ahead in years/ decades rather than year to year, that is at least a step in the right direction.
As someone who runs a business near Stonehaven, it's going to make a huge difference! It'll make our travel times to north of the city much lower. We stopped doing work in Dyce a few years ago because it took too long to travel across the city.
Long overdue! I see there's going to possibly be a legal challenge by a group who don't want this to go ahead. No doubt this will delay the bypass starting. Why can't these do-gooders just accept that we really need this bypass and see this is positive for Aberdeen!
Long overdue! I see there's going to possibly be a legal challenge by a group who don't want this to go ahead. No doubt this will delay the bypass starting. Why can't these do-gooders just accept that we really need this bypass and see this is positive for Aberdeen!
They still need to sort out some pressing hot spots. Coming down South Anderson Drive to BOD, ped presses lights, GO TO RED, one ped crosses road, 5 maybe 10 seconds or more, they go to GREEN.
Another ped comes along, presses lights GO TO RED, AGAIN, no delay at all, and they wonder why there are mases of queus every night. DIG A TUNNEL.
And why do they put ped crossings just on the roundabouts, do they not realise motoriset have a lot to concentrate when negotiating that roundabout.
Bendy bus's and single bus lay bys causing hold backs, traffic islands 4 mtrs behind the back of a bus when it stops in Portlethen, tail back...... unless you do which most of us do, pass on the right hand side.
And I couldn't stop laughing at an article in the weekend paper, something on the lines of "Now they have opened Union Square, congestion is worse", well f
k me old sea boots, it you plonk a car park with 1700 spaces in the bang middle of town, what do you expect? a medal?
What about lit ups signs saying when BUS LANES are NOT BUS LANES, that way more drivers would use them, and may just ease the congestion a little. As it is, if you miss the sign, or unless you know the times, you are totally unaware of the bus lane status, many many times I am the only car in the bus lane in Union St, and coming up from BOD towards Holbon Junction.
And why not sort out the BOD itself, single lane, just sucks.......... let me see now, we will knock the Dee Motel and the little piddling supermarket down and build.......
Boots
Currys
B & Q
Sainsburys.....
oh and we will let them build another humongouse ASDA there as well, we think the single lane can handle the traffic converging from 4 lanes, planning, they can't even spell it.
By-pass, I will believe it when I see it.
Another ped comes along, presses lights GO TO RED, AGAIN, no delay at all, and they wonder why there are mases of queus every night. DIG A TUNNEL.
And why do they put ped crossings just on the roundabouts, do they not realise motoriset have a lot to concentrate when negotiating that roundabout.
Bendy bus's and single bus lay bys causing hold backs, traffic islands 4 mtrs behind the back of a bus when it stops in Portlethen, tail back...... unless you do which most of us do, pass on the right hand side.
And I couldn't stop laughing at an article in the weekend paper, something on the lines of "Now they have opened Union Square, congestion is worse", well f
k me old sea boots, it you plonk a car park with 1700 spaces in the bang middle of town, what do you expect? a medal?What about lit ups signs saying when BUS LANES are NOT BUS LANES, that way more drivers would use them, and may just ease the congestion a little. As it is, if you miss the sign, or unless you know the times, you are totally unaware of the bus lane status, many many times I am the only car in the bus lane in Union St, and coming up from BOD towards Holbon Junction.
And why not sort out the BOD itself, single lane, just sucks.......... let me see now, we will knock the Dee Motel and the little piddling supermarket down and build.......
Boots
Currys
B & Q
Sainsburys.....
oh and we will let them build another humongouse ASDA there as well, we think the single lane can handle the traffic converging from 4 lanes, planning, they can't even spell it.
By-pass, I will believe it when I see it.
istoo said:
i thought the bypass had already started? ie that huge roundabout at Marywell that goes to a field which took a few years to build at enormous cost.
I ken what you mean jimmy, thought they had run out of money when they built the underpass 
, but isnt the blocked road on the roundabout say "Checkbar" which I thought was a little place East of the dual carriageway, could be wrong.Vipers said:
istoo said:
i thought the bypass had already started? ie that huge roundabout at Marywell that goes to a field which took a few years to build at enormous cost.
I ken what you mean jimmy, thought they had run out of money when they built the underpass , but isnt the blocked road on the roundabout say "Checkbar" which I thought was a little place East of the dual carriageway, could be wrong.
Typical Aberdoom. Try to drag it kicking and screaming into the 21st century, but no, the NIMBY's are out in force as usual. I'd face the A9 anyday to stop from having to twirl my way across Anderson Drive and the Haud-up-again roundabout. The bypass'll be built just as the oil runs oot...
jshell said:
Typical Aberdoom. Try to drag it kicking and screaming into the 21st century, but no, the NIMBY's are out in force as usual. I'd face the A9 anyday to stop from having to twirl my way across Anderson Drive and the Haud-up-again roundabout. The bypass'll be built just as the oil runs oot...
Spend zillions on a by-pass, when our roads in town, and villages rot away. We must have the worst roads in the UK, one road is so full of potholes I refuse to use it, and this is in Aberdeen, not out in the sticks.OK, I ken we need it, but I don't honestly see it ever happening!.
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