Advice please - persistant URs at Banstead Cross
Appreciate any advice from the more experienced among you.
There have been regular URs raised at this junction when southbound drivers on the A217 (S) wanting to turn right on the A2122 westbound have been directed to turn left into Winkworth Rd, go round the roundabout at the top of Bolter's Ln, then go through the junction westbound. I introduced the slip road (segment 184361143) in the hope that it would get a more accurate average speed than the main southbound lanes and encourage Waze to route drivers along there and through the right turn into Fir Tree Rd.
So far, that seems to have worked, as no URs have been raised there for a month or so since I introduced the slip, whereas they were regular - every one or two weeks - before, but it has now happened again.
Possibilities that have occurred to me:
- simplify the junction to the basics - one segment for the A217 (S) rather than main and two slips
- leave in the long slip for traffic turning right into Fir Tree Rd, but remove the slip onto Winkworth Rd
- more extreme by far - extend that slip onto Winkworth Rd effectively by duplicating Winkworth Rd to beyond the roundabout, with a junction allowing exit onto Bolter's Ln as well, but preventing use of the roundabout
- just put up with it, close URs when they occur, and put it down to transient traffic conditions.
The perfectionist in me doesn't sit well with the last two options, and I'm tempted to go for #1, which would also suggest removing all the slips in their entirety leaving a simple single/dual carriageway bow-tie cross-roads with no turn restrictions.
Does anybody have any other suggestions that I've not thought of?
Thanks
There have been regular URs raised at this junction when southbound drivers on the A217 (S) wanting to turn right on the A2122 westbound have been directed to turn left into Winkworth Rd, go round the roundabout at the top of Bolter's Ln, then go through the junction westbound. I introduced the slip road (segment 184361143) in the hope that it would get a more accurate average speed than the main southbound lanes and encourage Waze to route drivers along there and through the right turn into Fir Tree Rd.
So far, that seems to have worked, as no URs have been raised there for a month or so since I introduced the slip, whereas they were regular - every one or two weeks - before, but it has now happened again.
Possibilities that have occurred to me:
- simplify the junction to the basics - one segment for the A217 (S) rather than main and two slips
- leave in the long slip for traffic turning right into Fir Tree Rd, but remove the slip onto Winkworth Rd
- more extreme by far - extend that slip onto Winkworth Rd effectively by duplicating Winkworth Rd to beyond the roundabout, with a junction allowing exit onto Bolter's Ln as well, but preventing use of the roundabout
- just put up with it, close URs when they occur, and put it down to transient traffic conditions.
The perfectionist in me doesn't sit well with the last two options, and I'm tempted to go for #1, which would also suggest removing all the slips in their entirety leaving a simple single/dual carriageway bow-tie cross-roads with no turn restrictions.
Does anybody have any other suggestions that I've not thought of?
Thanks
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