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Nightmare delays on the A27
3:31pm Monday 1st October 2012 in News By Bill Gardner
Nightmare delays on the A27
Drivers reported nightmare delays on the A27 this afternoon on the first day of a major roadworks project.
Many have been stuck in queues on the A27 between Lancing and Shoreham due to lane closures.
Crews moved in this morning to start a three-month project to improve drainage on the stretch of road and stopped work at 3:30pm when the lane was reopened.
The disruption is set to continue until at least Friday with further lane closures planned.
On the eastbound A27 there will be a lane closure between Manor Road roundabout and 200m past Coombes Road from 9.30am to 4pm for the rest of the week.
On the westbound A27 there will be a lane closure from Old Shoreham Road to Manor Road roundabout from 9am to 3.30pm for the rest of the week.
A combination of daytime off-peak lane closures and overnight lane closures, contraflow or full road closures will be used during the 14-week scheme.
See tomorrow’s Argus for the full story.
Was your journey affected by the roadworks? Leave your comments below.
Comments(36)
graham w
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4:02pm Mon 1 Oct 12
Number Six
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4:35pm Mon 1 Oct 12
NeilWinton
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4:47pm Mon 1 Oct 12
Our MPs should be demanding that this work is carried out at night, and then demanding for the long term that we in the south finally have a proper road system linking Shoreham to Chichester.
Are our MPs mounting a campaign to do any of this? Given the chaos caused recently when work was done on the A27 near Arundel, it seems the Highways Agency is an unaccountable monster which thinks it can ignore those paying its wages, us road users and taxpayers.
Can the Argus find out if our MPs are trying to make sure traffic chaos is ended swiftly?
MorrisE
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5:10pm Mon 1 Oct 12
plantwoman
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5:26pm Mon 1 Oct 12
MorrisE wrote:Yep, I think you're right!
Looks like a pic of the A27 just before the A23 junction; not really relevant to the Shoreham - Lancing stretch.
Ohnotagain !
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9:35pm Mon 1 Oct 12
plantwoman wrote:The argus photographer got stuck in traffic from their office at Hollingbury on their way to the scene, so decided to come off at the A23 slip road to take the the action shot as it was happening !!
MorrisE wrote: Looks like a pic of the A27 just before the A23 junction; not really relevant to the Shoreham - Lancing stretch.Yep, I think you're right!
mr punch
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9:48pm Mon 1 Oct 12
graham w wrote:If everyone took the train, regardless of roadworks, there wouldn't be a problem and also people would have to walk to and from stations, meaning a lot less fat people.
i would suggest any body travelling east to portslade, hove, brighton,from the west ie lancing, worthing, littlehampton,use the train , because my daughter took half an hour to travel from hillbarn traffic lights lancing to manor road, north lancing, at lunchtime today, which is 500 yards in old money...
FatherTed11
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10:42pm Mon 1 Oct 12
TheWraith
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9:35am Tue 2 Oct 12
HJarrs
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9:55am Tue 2 Oct 12
TheWraith wrote:...and a short life!
Forget trains and cars, motorbikes are the way, no waiting, no queues.
simonl78
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10:04am Tue 2 Oct 12
This is just another waste of public money
Nosfaratu
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10:11am Tue 2 Oct 12
I have written to the Dept of Transport about the poor state of the roads in the South East this year.
The whole of the South Coast deserves a Motorway, from Chichester to Dover.
I have travelled extensively thoughout the UK and can say with authority that we have the poorest maintained and weakest road system.
The Govt wants to kick start the economy, well build us a Motorway. 'Pse'
Nosfaratu
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10:15am Tue 2 Oct 12
simonl78 wrote:Its true, every time it rains the roundabouts on the A27 at Chichester are flooded, this has been going on since it was built. Everybody write to your MP !
I dont know why or who says there is a problem with the drainage on this stretch of the A27. I have never seen lanes closed due to flooding? May be they should be spending the money on putting drains in at Chichester where there is always a lane closed due to floods caused by the smallest amount of rain. This is just another waste of public money
F in L
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12:43pm Tue 2 Oct 12
Lofaplace wrote:Which was when this photo was taken.......
It was, but by the Petrol Tanker on the Dyke Slip Road Approach Westbound that seemed to take an eternity to get its tyre changed.
rolivan
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1:11pm Tue 2 Oct 12
Nosfaratu wrote:I think the lakes on the South side give an indication of the water levels so the road level needs to be raised to solve this issue. As for Lancing the Chalk Downland becomes saturated after heavy rainfall and then has nowhere to go which is what has happened in the recent past.
simonl78 wrote:Its true, every time it rains the roundabouts on the A27 at Chichester are flooded, this has been going on since it was built. Everybody write to your MP !
I dont know why or who says there is a problem with the drainage on this stretch of the A27. I have never seen lanes closed due to flooding? May be they should be spending the money on putting drains in at Chichester where there is always a lane closed due to floods caused by the smallest amount of rain. This is just another waste of public money
Number Six
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1:23pm Tue 2 Oct 12
My wife work at Chichester and it's so bad after a little drizzle that she want me to buy her the James Bond car that goes underwater
Alan G Skinner
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3:48pm Tue 2 Oct 12
Jimmy Stewart's Imaginary Rabbit
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4:51pm Tue 2 Oct 12
mr punch wrote:You're obviously not a rail commuter, or someone who visits Brighton on summer weekends. If everyone took the train - there wouldn't be any room on the trains! Modern, overcrowded Britain needs to have more than one mode of transport. Sorry to burst you're somewhat-simplistic bubble.
graham w wrote:If everyone took the train, regardless of roadworks, there wouldn't be a problem and also people would have to walk to and from stations, meaning a lot less fat people.
i would suggest any body travelling east to portslade, hove, brighton,from the west ie lancing, worthing, littlehampton,use the train , because my daughter took half an hour to travel from hillbarn traffic lights lancing to manor road, north lancing, at lunchtime today, which is 500 yards in old money...
Sticky-mess
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5:13pm Tue 2 Oct 12
Jimmy Stewart's Imaginary Rabbit wrote:Trains are a joke! Overcrowded, delayed an worst of all more expensive that running the car. I go from Durrington to hove everyday with my wife and its 140 pounds each a monthly train ticket. How can that be justifiable? The south coast is in desperate need of a motorway and I for one would not care where they cut up to create one, there will have to be one day but sadly it will come far too late after having wasted lots of money and people's time
mr punch wrote:You're obviously not a rail commuter, or someone who visits Brighton on summer weekends. If everyone took the train - there wouldn't be any room on the trains! Modern, overcrowded Britain needs to have more than one mode of transport. Sorry to burst you're somewhat-simplistic bubble.
graham w wrote:If everyone took the train, regardless of roadworks, there wouldn't be a problem and also people would have to walk to and from stations, meaning a lot less fat people.
i would suggest any body travelling east to portslade, hove, brighton,from the west ie lancing, worthing, littlehampton,use the train , because my daughter took half an hour to travel from hillbarn traffic lights lancing to manor road, north lancing, at lunchtime today, which is 500 yards in old money...
Thatsjustyummy
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6:25pm Tue 2 Oct 12
nocando
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7:17pm Tue 2 Oct 12
HJarrs wrote:predictable and unimaginitive response from an evidently unskilled motorist occasionally forced onto public transport.
TheWraith wrote:...and a short life!
Forget trains and cars, motorbikes are the way, no waiting, no queues.
Have you still not worked out that the only people in the country who are genuinely unfussed by our atrocious roads, traffic volume, cattle trucks on rails and the astronomical costs of participation in such lunacy are those with the skill to take best advantage of the situation and get on bikes? They are fun. When was the last time you had fun on a bus? There's plenty advanced in age on motorcycles, I'd stop blabbing about short lives before you offend them.
Either do something intelligent or get back in your queue..
See ya...lol
nocando
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7:32pm Tue 2 Oct 12
I drive a skip lorry right out of that neck in the woods and I'm in a constant hurry but I haven't been unduly held up by it yet.
Cabin fever
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7:53pm Tue 2 Oct 12
Jimmy Stewart's Imaginary Rabbit wrote:Thanks for saving me the bother JSIR, just what I was about to post.
mr punch wrote:You're obviously not a rail commuter, or someone who visits Brighton on summer weekends. If everyone took the train - there wouldn't be any room on the trains! Modern, overcrowded Britain needs to have more than one mode of transport. Sorry to burst you're somewhat-simplistic bubble.
graham w wrote:If everyone took the train, regardless of roadworks, there wouldn't be a problem and also people would have to walk to and from stations, meaning a lot less fat people.
i would suggest any body travelling east to portslade, hove, brighton,from the west ie lancing, worthing, littlehampton,use the train , because my daughter took half an hour to travel from hillbarn traffic lights lancing to manor road, north lancing, at lunchtime today, which is 500 yards in old money...
Also it is a myth that just because you take public transport you are healthier. There are a load of overweight people on buses and trains, and some of the fittest people around get to work by car.
Apart from that, your argument is genius, Mr P...
pebble counter
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9:10pm Tue 2 Oct 12
mr punch wrote:Well, I suppose they'd be fitter but they'd also be skinter, the cost of the train fare at peak time, when you cannot use a railcard, is preposterous.
graham w wrote: i would suggest any body travelling east to portslade, hove, brighton,from the west ie lancing, worthing, littlehampton,use the train , because my daughter took half an hour to travel from hillbarn traffic lights lancing to manor road, north lancing, at lunchtime today, which is 500 yards in old money...If everyone took the train, regardless of roadworks, there wouldn't be a problem and also people would have to walk to and from stations, meaning a lot less fat people.
nocando
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9:44pm Tue 2 Oct 12
Charlie Oscar
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10:15pm Tue 2 Oct 12
funkyyoyo
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1:56am Wed 3 Oct 12
Brighton Visitor
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2:04am Wed 3 Oct 12
It's a dump.
Number Six
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8:41am Wed 3 Oct 12
funkyyoyo wrote:Stop wining? Certainly not. I love a good Shiraz, or Merlot.
yawnnnn iv a solution....find another route to your destination And stop wining!!!
As for your insightful remark about finding another route I'm sure you don't need me to tell you that there is only one other route, the A259 which is already crowded and has roadworks all of its own.
F in L
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9:22am Wed 3 Oct 12
Number Six wrote:We are reaping the benefits of 25 years of underinvestment in Sussex roads.... Hampshire and Dorset did there part, we are stuck with the nightmare scenario of the A27 which from Chichester to Eastbourne, with the exception of about 6 miles....is a disgrace.
funkyyoyo wrote:Stop wining? Certainly not. I love a good Shiraz, or Merlot.
yawnnnn iv a solution....find another route to your destination And stop wining!!!
As for your insightful remark about finding another route I'm sure you don't need me to tell you that there is only one other route, the A259 which is already crowded and has roadworks all of its own.
Nosfaratu
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9:28am Wed 3 Oct 12
We (the South East) are being treated shoddily by the Govts Transport Dept.
No investment in infrastructure except for bus and cycle lanes.
Poor construction and a lack of forsight.
As for the Green's, if we all drove tiny electric cars we would still have traffic problems and more cars left by the side of the road out of juice. Motorbikes are ok if you want to arrive at work bloody and covered in dirt, trains are ok if you live next to the station and have lots of money.
Everyone ,write to your MP, Now !
Nosfaratu
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9:34am Wed 3 Oct 12
F in L wrote:Actually about 50 years, since the Folkstone to Honiton Trunk Route was first aired.
Number Six wrote:We are reaping the benefits of 25 years of underinvestment in Sussex roads.... Hampshire and Dorset did there part, we are stuck with the nightmare scenario of the A27 which from Chichester to Eastbourne, with the exception of about 6 miles....is a disgrace.funkyyoyo wrote: yawnnnn iv a solution....find another route to your destination And stop wining!!!Stop wining? Certainly not. I love a good Shiraz, or Merlot. As for your insightful remark about finding another route I'm sure you don't need me to tell you that there is only one other route, the A259 which is already crowded and has roadworks all of its own.
And the fact that the A27 disappears at Pevensey to be replaced by 'B' roads.
Write to your MP !
Man With No Name
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12:21pm Wed 3 Oct 12
F in L
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4:59pm Wed 3 Oct 12
Nosfaratu wrote:Nice advice, but my M.P. is Mike 'You would not steal a car so why steal music' Weatherley. I will save the ink!
F in L wrote:Actually about 50 years, since the Folkstone to Honiton Trunk Route was first aired.
Number Six wrote:We are reaping the benefits of 25 years of underinvestment in Sussex roads.... Hampshire and Dorset did there part, we are stuck with the nightmare scenario of the A27 which from Chichester to Eastbourne, with the exception of about 6 miles....is a disgrace.funkyyoyo wrote: yawnnnn iv a solution....find another route to your destination And stop wining!!!Stop wining? Certainly not. I love a good Shiraz, or Merlot. As for your insightful remark about finding another route I'm sure you don't need me to tell you that there is only one other route, the A259 which is already crowded and has roadworks all of its own.
And the fact that the A27 disappears at Pevensey to be replaced by 'B' roads.
Write to your MP !
D5
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8:34pm Wed 3 Oct 12
Feel fit. no fat and no petrol to buy or traffic jams to see.
Yum
Lofaplace says...
3:38pm Mon 1 Oct 12