(21 Sep 2025, 7:20 am)Storx wrote 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.
You are aware your purple line goes through the back streets of Pallion?
Also how are people going to access the crematorium, university, and many houses and side streets, as you've blocked off their only road access by turning it buses and cycles only?