Impracticable route

WHEN a building complex or even a passenger vehicle is designed, attention has to be given to adequate ingress and egress. The provision of emergency exits is essential to ensure that there are more than one escape route if the major one becomes blocked for any reason.
By The Newsroom
Published 5th Aug 2011, 06:30 BST

This principle applies equally to any large housing development, making certain that there is more than a single access point.

Locally, we have very good examples of insufficient thought being given to this matter. The Taylor-Wimpey estate of 400 homes at Toddington does provide more than one suitable entrance and exit, but the suggestion that Toddington Lane crossing should be permanently closed could entirely destroy this good intention, leaving only one alternative way out, to the Worthing Road.

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The proposal to use Courtwick Lane as a secondary route to and from the planned Gleeson estate of 600 dwellings is at present quite impracticable because of the nature and width of the lane. But if that problem were overcome, then how would traffic from the new estate get out into Lyminster Road?

It is not uncommon for a tailback of stationary vehicles to stretch as far as the Wick roundabout, which could lead to corresponding congestion in Courtwick Lane if the cars from the new estate were added.

W. F. Daggett,

Barn Close,

Littlehampton