(17 Jan 2016, 9:06 pm)Greg in Weardale wrote The main problem at Gilesgate is the traffic going down the A690 (Leazes Road?) from the roundabout towards Durham with the delays caused by traffic having to go from two lanes to one, thus preventing vehicles coming off the roundabout. Lights will not solve this problem; it would be better to have two lanes all the way downhill towards Durham with only one lane as you start coming up the hill on the A690 (Sunderland direction) then widening to two for the roundabout. And there is a consultation on the go about reducing the bridge across the Wear on the A690 (Milburngate Bridge?) from two to one lane in each direction to have room for cycle lanes!!! That really would bugger things up.
Didn't it used to be like that? Racking my brains to remember what the set up was like prior to the last lot of works on the road and I am sure it was two lanes down and one up.