Road and the Canal, as well as missed opportunity to accelerate the future developments in the area. Connect to the SRN to No detailed This option will This option will This option will This option will This option will Aid Optimisation of assessments provide provide provide provide provide the Network as a have been additional additional additional additional additional Whole carried out, infrastructure to infrastructure to infrastructure to infrastructure to infrastructure to however due to facilitate facilitate facilitate facilitate facilitate traffic volumes connection to connection to connection to connection to connection to remaining the SRN. Minimal SRN. Minimal SRN. Junction SRN. Junction SRN. same (no delay is delay is assessments performance This option redistribution of forecasted forecasted undertaken would not differ should ensure traffic would between the between the within the significantly minimal delay occur) and land Red Lion Red Lion Options from that between the restrictions, it is Roundabout and Roundabout and Appraisal modelled for Red Lion Impact against likely that the the A678 the A678 Report Option 2. Roundabout Strategic Red Lion Furthergate. Furthergate (Appendix H), and the A678 Objectives Rounndabout during the however Furthergate. Please describe and Gorse morning peak demonstrate how this option Street junctions hour in the that Option 3 delivers against the would continue future year would generate strategic objectives to operate over scenarios. A unacceptable set out in Section capacity. higher junction levels of 1.3. Make delay is congestion with reference to the however high delays. outputs of the Early forecasted Assessment and during the Sifting Tool process evening park hour in the future year scenarios. Improve the Reliability No detailed This option Potential Due to Same as Option This option of Journey Times assessments mitigates the journey time unacceptable 2. mitigates the have been existing issues reliability issues levels of existing issues carried out, with journey during the congestion, the with journey however due to time reliability. evening peak reliability of time reliability. unacceptable hour. journey times is levels of poor. congestion, it is
Road and the Canal, as well as missed opportunity to accelerate the future developments in the area. Impact against Strategic Objectives Please describe how this option delivers against the strategic objectives set out in Section 1.3. Make reference to the outputs of the Early Assessment and Sifting Tool process Connect to the SRN to Aid Optimisation of the Network as a Whole No detailed assessments have been carried out, however due to traffic volumes remaining the same (no redistribution of traffic would occur) and land restrictions, it is likely that the Red Lion Rounndabout and Gorse Street junctions would continue to operate over capacity. This option will provide additional infrastructure to facilitate connection to SRN. Minimal delay is forecasted between the Red Lion Roundabout and the A678 Furthergate. This option will provide additional infrastructure to facilitate connection to SRN. Minimal delay is forecasted between the Red Lion Roundabout and the A678 Furthergate during the morning peak hour in the future year scenarios. A higher junction delay is however forecasted during the evening park hour in the future year scenarios. This option will provide additional infrastructure to facilitate connection to SRN. Junction assessments undertaken within the Options Appraisal Report (Appendix H), however demonstrate that Option 3 would generate unacceptable levels of congestion with high delays. This option will provide additional infrastructure to facilitate connection to SRN. Junction performance would not differ significantly from that modelled for Option 2. This option will provide additional infrastructure to facilitate connection to SRN. This option should ensure minimal delay between the Red Lion Roundabout and the A678 Furthergate. Improve the Reliability of Journey Times No detailed assessments have been carried out, however due to unacceptable levels of congestion, it is This option mitigates the existing issues with journey time reliability. Potential journey time reliability issues during the evening peak hour. Due to unacceptable levels of congestion, the reliability of journey times is poor. Same as Option 2. This option mitigates the existing issues with journey time reliability.
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