[Travel] A27 weekend closures Shoreham-Lancing

[schmunk]

Waze (owned by Google) has long been my navigational tool of choice. I think on a day like today, it won't be much good as it won't know about all the people coming from Falmer until it's too late.

Fair point! Waze is essentially the same as GM.

However, I have a cunning plan which can help your app know about the traffic...
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Hold back in Falmer for an hour or so, to let it build up a pattern of the extra traffic, then you can set off and see where it is! Flawless.

 

[LamieRobertson]

Yesterday…went down Buckingham Rd……straight over the railway line….Tarmount Lane ..New Road ..straight on to A259….twenty mins and then straight over the Norfolk Bridge ..virtually plain sailing from there….anyone thinking of using the side streets off the High St …my advice isn’t to

So maybe use that route and coming off the A27 at the Sainsbury’s junction

 

[Official Old Man]

You lot traveling west have got it easy. Lewes Malling Street is closed during the week and our ST coach made a diversion out to Chailey then back to North Uckfield. Along with the 30 minute delay leaving we got home about an hour later than normal.
EDIT, I'm old enough to remember when the main road was that old wooden bridge. Those were the days.

 

[LamieRobertson]

Shorehams not 'gridlock' but hundreds of lazy fuckers sitting in cars ticking over belching diesel fumes in every side road between the A27 and 259 hardly makes for a pleasant environment.

It was interesting yesterday watching people try the side roads …whereas I went east a bit to join the coast road with no hassle ..just relying on a kind person the other side of the road to let me in ..which they did

 

[WATFORD zero]

You lot traveling west have got it easy. Lewes Malling Street is closed during the week and our ST coach made a diversion out to Chailey then back to North Uckfield. Along with the 30 minute delay leaving we got home about an hour later than normal.
EDIT, I'm old enough to remember when the main road was that old wooden bridge. Those were the days.

Didn't the bloke with the satchel charge you to cross IIRC ?

*edit* I was going to say sixpence but thought that sounded too much

 

[A mex eyecan]

Didn't the bloke with the satchel charge you to cross IIRC ?

yup, think it was sixpence

 

[WATFORD zero]

Amex/A23/Cowfold/A24 would be clear and probably only add 20 mins

 

[Official Old Man]

Didn't the bloke with the satchel charge you to cross IIRC ?

Don't remember that. Just looked it up and it closed in 1970. I know my Dad had business with someone in Worthing so we went down there at least once a month.

 

[LamieRobertson]

Daughter had just come from Storrington….solid from flyover to steyning bypass going north and other issues

 

[tronnogull]

I just drove in from storrington. The 283 in the other direction was packed all the way with long ( possibly up to half a mile at Washington ) tail backs at all the roundabouts.

 

[Stat Brother]

How have the coast road and the Steyning bypass been when this has been happening?

Wondering if the best route back to Worthing from the game today would be M23 -> A272 -> A23.

Thanks for that.
I probably wouldn't have thought it through as an option but it was on my mind as the traffic wasn't great on the Steyning bypass.

Coming down the 24, the Washington roundabout didn't look pretty, suggesting A272 was a good call.


For the record.
Whistle - players off - legged it as The Diamond kicked off - cycled into Brighton.- car at 16:40 - Findon 17:25 - noice.

 

[bn9 bha]

Yesterday…went down Buckingham Rd……straight over the railway line….Tarmount Lane ..New Road ..straight on to A259….twenty mins and then straight over the Norfolk Bridge ..virtually plain sailing from there….

I didn’t know you have got a boat.

 

[heavysoul]

Seagull Travel battered old bus made it to Shoreham OK after the game ... but got stuck at traffic lights near the old Civic Centre (having gone over crossing by McDonald's). Lights went red/green/red a good dozen times without us moving. Westbound traffic heading into Shoreham High Street just not moving. Asked driver to just let us out but initially refused as it was 'against the rules'. After another series of red/green/red with no sign of moving, he relented and let us out as much quicker to walk home from there than staying on!

 

[BNthree]

In a brilliant example of joined up thinking with regard to traffic management the traffic on the A259 passed Lancing green (where Perch is) is down to a single lane and has temporary works lights to filter the traffic. Which is where all the westbound traffic off the A27 is being diverted via. What a shitshow.