(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.
The issue you've got with those hard white bits, is that you're offering little to no alternative for ambulance traffic.
You mentioned Low Fell previously, but that doesn't compare to Chester Road.
Ambulances to the QE from the south, don't hit the traffic measures introduced in Low Fell.
They've either scooted up to Wrekenton or are heading up Beacon Lough Road.
Whereas with this proposal, any ambulance between the A19 and the hospital or city centre and the hospital, would be stuck in and amongst the traffic measures you propose.
Those roads leading to and from the hospital need to be functional for ambulances etc.