A new bridge at Walton on Thames.

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Sat 2 Jan 2010 18:50
A new bridge at Walton on Thames. - henry k
After years and years of talk it looks like things are starting to happen but is £30M still available.

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/surrey/8437827.stm

www.shepperton-info.co.uk/articles/13/1/New-Walton...l

Quite an improvement !
www.geograph.org.uk/photo/94820

So if it starts this year I guess there will be two years of disruption before completion.
There will be three bridges side by side until all is completed.

For anyone deeply interested, a pdf file showing the plans.
tinyurl.com/y99h4yh

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Sat 2 Jan 2010 21:34
A new bridge at Walton on Thames. - Altea Ego
Dont start cheering yet, they only have permission to buy the land, no-one has given them the money yet, and under the current economic climate Its swirling down the plughole as we speak.
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Sat 2 Jan 2010 23:05
A new bridge at Walton on Thames. - drbe
We don't need a new bridge at Walton.

If the authorities banned all commercial vehicles over three tons and stopped right turns into and out of Cowey Sale the traffic problem would be solved at a stroke.

Think of the money we would save!
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Sun 3 Jan 2010 00:43
A new bridge at Walton on Thames. - Honestjohn
(Not something most Backroomers will appreciate.) But this just happens to be my route home. If drivers were sensible, there would not be a problem caused by right turns into Cowey Sale. If you are turning right off the bridge into Walton Lane, you make sure you leave room on your left for traffic to pass. The problem only comes if more than two cars want to turn right into Cowey Sale at the same time.

HJ
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Sun 3 Jan 2010 08:37
A new bridge at Walton on Thames. - cheddar
This is also my manor, I lived in the Addlestone / West Byfleet area for most of my life, used to fish and swim in the Thames at Cowey Sale as a kid, had a boat at Hampton which was launched at the marina by Walton Bridge.

Tis about time.
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Sun 3 Jan 2010 09:07
A new bridge at Walton on Thames. - Alanovich
If the ungrateful of Surrey do not want the bridge, then please send it over to Reading where it is desperately needed and very much wanted.
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Sun 3 Jan 2010 09:33
A new bridge at Walton on Thames. - drbe
(Not something most Backroomers will appreciate.) But this just happens to be my route home.


HJ, I am not sure if you are objecting to my suggestion to ban right turns or banning lorries over three tons.

The weight limit for commercial vehicles on the bridge has been raised over the years and there is no reason why those regulations cannot be reversed. No one is ever going to claim that more heavy lorries makes for better flowing traffic.

Walton bridge is my route home as well (depends where I've been of course!) and right turns onto and off a single lane carriageway can be extremely disruptive. Any local drivers must know that there are alternatives to turning right on the bridge.
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Sun 3 Jan 2010 11:15
A new bridge at Walton on Thames. - Altea Ego
All a new bridge will do is jam up the traffic onto the HWM traffic lights faster. new bridge with improved traffic flow should mean a whole change in traffic management. A one way system should sort it. One way from HWM, hepworth way, high street, New Zealand avenue and hepworth way again. People filter in and out as they want at terrace road, hersham road and oatlands.

sorted.
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