Dodworth Road/Broadway Gyratory System

Who can contain their excitement at the number of laps around Penny Pie Park we'll be doing in future? I think Gally will be in pole position making his way between his emporium on Pogmoor Road and his country pile.

 

Pound to pinch of ***** it will end up a right pot mess! Looked at the plans on the comical website and seemed simple enough but anything BMBC are involved in is far more complicated than it needs to be

 

Be 2 years of disruption, just so we can get to the bottleneck at town end roundabout, that few minutes earlier.

 

My heart just missed a beat. Getting round Dodworth has been the bain of my life for 53 years.

 

Its a cynical attempt to stream through mu1

Create a dafter alternative scheme and everyone will settle for the first o ption

 

This from the pillocks behind Cundy Cross and Wakefield Road among others. I wouldnt let em design a footpath through my back yard.

 

Won't take long for people coming off the M1 to cotton on to the fact that to get into town they can go through Dodworth then follow Keresforth Hill Road to the junction with Broadway, then up to the lights and down Racecommon Road, or onto Park Road then Sheffield Road. I do it myself now and then when going to a match if Tom Tom says big hold up on Dodworth Road.

The residents of Dodworth are going to LOVE all this

 

You'll never find a BMBC planner trying that because it will never cross their tiny minds

 

Did you have to tell the world ‘Prince’?

 

Looks like for me to get to the match one set of lights is going to change to six. Dodworth will be the way to go I think.

Just had a second look.. so the traffic from the m1 turning right into broadway and the traffic going from pogmoor road straight on or turning right is being added to the traffic coming up from the town.
Gridlock.

 

SO looking at the plan. In the morning the longish queue heading from Pogmoor road heading for the motorway will join in the LH lane but will have to change to the right hand lane on the 'back straight' to be in the right hand lane to join Dodworth road. meantime cars coming from the motorway heading to town will have to move from the right hand lane to the left hand lane on the same section (back straight). So unless the junctions are controlled by lights (deja-vu re Stairfoot roundabout) there woill be chaos at peak times . IF they intent to place lights at each junction surely you are replacing one set of lights with two heading into town. The traffic heading out of town will still be light controlled for traffic joining from Broadway although I suppose the sequencing will be 2 way rather than having an extra delay for right turning traffic from Pogmoor and the current filter lane for Right turning from Dodworth road onto Pogmoor road.
Traffic lights on roundabouts in Barnsley ALWAYSseem to cause chaos as they never seem to get the sequencing timing optimised. We used to find when the lights at Stairfoot were not working there were virtually no queues!

 

That seems to be about it, Tekktyke. To be fair, the Junction 37 signalisation scheme has worked out very well, so far as I can see. So if this is similar, it may work out OK. On the other hand, if it's like Stairfoot……………….!

 

Prohibitive in available space and cost I know, but the only really effective solution would have been a flyover for Dodworth road with slip roads for entry/exit for Broadway and Pogmoor Road. Sadly it will never come to pass

 

More drastic action is needed. Buy all the houses on one side or both of the road between the M1 and Westway. Demolish them and put 4 lanes and a roundabout in. Slip roads could be used to filter left turning traffic. A new link road could be built from Dark Lane-Keresforth Hill parallel to the M1 to take traffic away from Broadway. Crazy or what?

 

Sorry - I know I shouldn't have

 

Knock down the school and rebuild it elsewere? I understand that's what the main problem is?

 

Obviously the school's location hasn't helped Tony, but I remember catching buses into Barnsley when I was at college from 1995-98 and it was the same gridlock in a morning (if not worse!) that it is now. Most mornings it was quicker for me to set off walking from Gilroyd up Keresforth Hill, down Racecommon and to Old Mill Lane, than it was to sit on a bus that went up Dodworth and down Dodworth Road to town. Crackers.

 

You’ve just bottlenecked our secret

 

I know. Dammit.