Thanks for the update and another great video you videography is fantastic, I am not sure what time you recorded the video this morning but I can see that there was not the normal volumes of traffic even for a Saturday, but the Video confirms my belief that the new roundabout wont make a blind bit of difference to the queues even when the work is finished. Every right turn on that new roundabout will have to cross 2 queuing rows of traffic to get to their required on slip and even when they do they will have to merge with the free flowing traffic that is turning left at that slip road. You can see this from your other video where there are merge arrows on the slip road. Its even worse if you want to come out of Wisley and want to go south on A3 as going round that new roundabout you will have 3 sets of lights to queue at before you can join the slip road south where again you will have to merge with the free flow traffic coming off the M25 westbound to go south on A3.
You needed to film at 16.30 yesterday (Friday). There was nothing wrong with the juction as it was. We’ve just spent the last 12 months sitting in so much traffic that anything seems better now. Mass decimation of trees and wildlife…so we can get onto a stationary M25 a little bit quicker. Don’t forget…the plan when this was conceived was for the M25 to be a smart motorway from 9-16 which now can’t happen, but they still went ahead with the flawed plan anyway.
My understanding is that a number of trees were felled to restore the area south of J10 to heathland. Of course, pretty much no part of the UK is "natural" in that the entire landscape has been modified by humans over centuries and millennia since the last Ice Age.
A massive roadworks project decimating a very large area of the woodlands. The contractor is doing its best no doubt to keep traffic flowing but it is in my view a flawed design. It could have been a much less disruptive solution but that option was not explored among the 21 options Highways England/ National Highways had explored. The M25 off-slips could have been routed under the A3 in very short tunnels and the M25 itself in underbridges constructed using top-down method. Such a design would have kept the A3 on-slip traffic separated from the M25 off-slip traffic. In the current scheme they merge on the elongated roundabout and thus increasing the risk of accidents. This alternative would have required much less traffic management since most of the construction would have been off-line. It would possibly have saved some £100m.
And tunnels are very expensive to build and in particular maintain. The initial cost might have been lower, although we very much doubt that, but the ongoing maintenance liability would have been huge. Remember to think about Whole Life Costs, not just Capital Costs....
Excellent video! One of those rare times when you pray for red traffic signals, so that we can have a good look all around!
Maybe next time. There is a drone version up now
Thanks for the update and another great video you videography is fantastic, I am not sure what time you recorded the video this morning but I can see that there was not the normal volumes of traffic even for a Saturday, but the Video confirms my belief that the new roundabout wont make a blind bit of difference to the queues even when the work is finished. Every right turn on that new roundabout will have to cross 2 queuing rows of traffic to get to their required on slip and even when they do they will have to merge with the free flowing traffic that is turning left at that slip road. You can see this from your other video where there are merge arrows on the slip road. Its even worse if you want to come out of Wisley and want to go south on A3 as going round that new roundabout you will have 3 sets of lights to queue at before you can join the slip road south where again you will have to merge with the free flow traffic coming off the M25 westbound to go south on A3.
Left onto M25 W no longer has traffic lights so that will be quicker.
Wow This Roundabout Looks Very Different On How You Can Get Onto The A3 And M25
2:39 I would have stopped at that amber!
The footage is slowed down 75%
You needed to film at 16.30 yesterday (Friday). There was nothing wrong with the juction as it was. We’ve just spent the last 12 months sitting in so much traffic that anything seems better now. Mass decimation of trees and wildlife…so we can get onto a stationary M25 a little bit quicker. Don’t forget…the plan when this was conceived was for the M25 to be a smart motorway from 9-16 which now can’t happen, but they still went ahead with the flawed plan anyway.
My understanding is that a number of trees were felled to restore the area south of J10 to heathland.
Of course, pretty much no part of the UK is "natural" in that the entire landscape has been modified by humans over centuries and millennia since the last Ice Age.
Nothing wrong with the junction as it was? Come off it.
Brilliant, you never hit a traffic jam - long time since that's happened, what time of day was that???
About 9am
@@aviewthroughthelens Thank you, love your updates. 🙂
Thank you so much.
A massive roadworks project decimating a very large area of the woodlands. The contractor is doing its best no doubt to keep traffic flowing but it is in my view a flawed design. It could have been a much less disruptive solution but that option was not explored among the 21 options Highways England/ National Highways had explored. The M25 off-slips could have been routed under the A3 in very short tunnels and the M25 itself in underbridges constructed using top-down method. Such a design would have kept the A3 on-slip traffic separated from the M25 off-slip traffic. In the current scheme they merge on the elongated roundabout and thus increasing the risk of accidents. This alternative would have required much less traffic management since most of the construction would have been off-line. It would possibly have saved some £100m.
And tunnels are very expensive to build and in particular maintain. The initial cost might have been lower, although we very much doubt that, but the ongoing maintenance liability would have been huge. Remember to think about Whole Life Costs, not just Capital Costs....