(21 Sep 2025, 6:37 am)F114TML wrote Re Chester Road, and I'm talking of this from the perspective of leaving the town;
Take out the bus stop after the roundabout (stupid stop anyway, and no one overtakes for some reason), then add an extra lane as far as the junction after the pedestrian crossing (doubt Greggs would mind losing a few bushes out the back). Then, at the roundabout, make both lanes straight on and turn left/right respectively.
Thereby, you've split the traffic going straight on and it should flow a bit better. Even better if you take the roundabout out and put properly timed traffic lights, and/or eliminate traffic coming out of the retail bit that has to turn around there. I'm honestly surprised there isn't more accidents there.
See personally I'd look at making it a bigger project and a project to shift traffic away from the road completely.
imo, I'd try and force the traffic to head into the hospital via the following routes:
With the white bits being hard bus and cycling corridors, there's arguably little to no reason why anyone is going along them at this stage bar rat running.
Obviously you'd have to reopen the link from the new bridge to Woodbine Terrace near Pallion Metro station but personally I really don't understand why this doesn't exist anyway. Why build a brand new bridge that people go via Chester Road instead because it's such an awkward route to join, by the time you join you could be on the A19 the other way?
I'm sure cross bridge buses could be more feasible aswell if they didn't have to go on a long jaunt aswell, ie. something from the Red House Farm across the new bridge, up Woodbine Terrace, through Pallion and then turn left along Hylton Road or Chester Road into Sunderland that way, it's probably not much longer than the route via the Stadium of Light anyway.