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NO right turn into Dukes Avenue from CHRd coming from E to W

Access to Duke Road is already banned from CHRd.  Now there's also a no right turn sign from CHRd into Dukes Avenue.  Residents are having to find longer and longer routes just to get home.  No idea whether this is temporary or permanent but I can understand why a no right turn there might be desirable - with just one E/W lane available at that junction now all the E/W traffic comes to a standstill until the right turners get through, which is normally governed by a change in the lights.  But no advance warning of the change, not even for residents? This is not good governance.

Marie Power ● 2216d17 Comments

When will this lunacy by LB Hounslow and TfL end ?It's making it almost impossible for residents to ingress and egress the streets where they live, unless they take long detours which increases emissions and takes the problem to other roads !

Loraine Pemberton ● 2216d

Surely that's left turn if you're going E-W?

Ken Munn ● 2216d

while the road works continue please be careful as i was nearly knocked down by a cyclist riding at speed on the pavement after using the natwest cash point yesterday evening.

James Smith-Jones ● 2216d

Yes, it affects traffic coming from W to E.I reported this to Hounslow on 1 October when the no-right-turn sign first appeared, but have had no response.  I think it's just a temporary restriction imposed by TfL's contractors while they are working on this junction.  The lane widths are currently narrower than they will be when the cycleway is installed, and the no-right-turn is not part of the cycleway design plan. There was a minor accident there yesterday, after which the no-right-turn was reinforced by more cones.  I spoke to a police officer there who sympathised with residents but said that the safety of the junction had to come first.

Richard Jennings ● 2216d

One thing I noticed yesterday was 2 cars travelling E-W on CHR turning right into Clifton Gdns - which the road works have made possible.More chaos.

Richard Potts ● 2216d

It's not cars that turn into Clifton, it's drivers.

Ken Munn ● 2216d

Yes sorry.  Geographically challenged...

Marie Power ● 2216d

My recollection from the temporary cycleway plans is that the right turn will still be allowed eastbound on Chiswick High Road into Dukes Avenue. There is the obvious potential for this to cause tailbacks on eastbound traffic because of the narrowed road at this point so it may be that Hounslow Council have rethought it as they have worked through the likely impacts of the original design.

Paul Corcoran ● 2216d

This is what you get if you vote in a left wing liberal labour party. Pigeon droppings have rights too - they would say!

c james ● 2216d

And surely, this left-wing labour council could be spending this wasted tax payers’ money on better housing, school upgrades, health services, etc... instead of pandering to the looney liberals who have ruined this country through and through.

c james ● 2216d

LBH may have made a pig's ear of the implementation of changes to infrastructure, but the driver(npi)for this is at national, not local level:https://www.gov.uk/government/news/pm-kickstarts-2bn-cycling-and-walking-revolution

David Roberts ● 2216d

'Left wing liberal', you're obviously a bit simple if you think this is a left wing council?

Basil Finnis ● 2216d

Ahem, this "left-wing labour council" is implementing Tory Party policy.Maybe it's all part of "levelling up" ©Boris Johnson 2019.

Ken Munn ● 2216d

Agreed. Specifically Andrew Gilligan who seems to have control of transport policy in London at the moment. He owes his position to his ability to persuade Boris Johnson that there are simple solutions to complex problems which is attractive to the latter because of his limited attention span. Unfortunately Gilligan is wrong.Hounslow basically has the choice of bidding for these ill-thought out schemes or doing nothing and having to lay off staff.The problem with this junction is that it may be that for much of the green phase eastbound traffic will be held up by a right turning vehicle. If SCR is congested traffic apps will direct vehicles wishing to go east on the A4 down Dukes Avenue.

Paul Corcoran ● 2216d

"LBH may have made a pig's ear of the implementation of changes to infrastructure, but the driver(npi)for this is at national, not local level:"Indeed you are correct, BUT LB Hounslow didn't have to or were forced accept they could have said "no thanks" but they chose to in order to get there hands on taxpayers money and in the process chose to make life extremely difficult for both businesses and residents.Look at the number of people who complained about the raod restrictions and many of them new to this Forum. Zero Consultation with those it adversely affects especially our independent businesses - absolutely undemocratic and shameful 🤬

Loraine Pemberton ● 2216d

As Duke's Avenue has access to A4 going east all this will do is force yet more traffic onto Sutton Court Road.  A road which is the busiest in Chiswick.It may be temporary but as was reported on this site a couple of months ago one of the proposals from LBH is to close off the Duke's Avenue access to the A4 - although as this needs agreement with TFL it may take a while.I am left with the conclusion that LBH intent is to move as much traffic onto SCR and if possible regularly grid lock Chiswick

Justin Stephenson ● 2216d

At the moment, the end of Dukes Avenue seems to be a mess whichever way you come at it, but the new westbound right turn from CHR into Clifton Garden (presumably permitted as there's no sign to say otherwise) is certainly worth enjoying after many years of being blocked by the central island. Not that there are many places you get to via Clifton Gardens now Fishers Lane is blocked. Maybe their portable No Right Turn sign got hi-jacked for some other purpose.  With all these, we assume, temporary road works dotted down the length of CHR, it's impossible to make any sensible judgment about the efficacy or otherwise of the various Coronavirus closures.

Peter Evans ● 2216d