Chichester Deserves Better

no need for northern route

Why not concentrate on improving and increasing the number of cycle paths throughout the south i.e. a safe coastal route to encourage a different activity/behaviour to do as a day out, rather than carving up more countryside? It's not needed

I don't live in Hailsham - Bognor Regis is my domain.

Personally I cannot see how any improvement to the existing A27 by-pass is going to work unless it is completely reconstructed by moving it about 200m south and making underpass roundabouts and a straight through road from Sainsbury's to the existing A27 to Emsworth. If you look at a real map and draw a straight line from Crossbush to The A27 at the Fishbourne roundabout then that is the best route. Forget about the displacement of things and people or stop moaning about the traffic. The real problem is that we are living on the sea bed and the real coast line is the south downs so we are always going to get the road flooded as the water table is too high and the sea is getting higher due to the ice caps melting. When they figure out how to drain water UPHILL it'll be fixed.

There should a robust, published cost-benefit analysis of the options (I signed yesterday but want to add this comment)

The A27 route should remain where it is with upgrading of the junctions

The Chichester bypass as it stands should and could be upgraded with fly overs.

The problem is a local traffic one not improving through routes - please reject this ill thought through proposal

The existing route must be upgraded. Underpasses on the existing route will reduce visual and noise pollution resulting from flyovers. They are more common on the continent, effective and also probably cheaper.

there is not a quick fix - a number of solutions is the answer such as encouraging people to leave their cars at home and investment into public transport with a train/tram link to the Witterings and Selsey

It is indeed the existing inadequate junctions on the A 27 around Chichester that need attention

I am heavily suspicious of the approval process for this project. As a Bosham resident I have been worried about the dangers of the "Tesco Roundabout" for years and any northern route will do nothing to make it safer.

Chichester already has a by-pass which could easily be improved by three flyovers and some local slip roads. Why spoil northern countryside at vast expense squeezing a lovely city between two dual carriageways

With strong personal and professional ties to Lavant and Goodwood the northern route would destroy this historic, peaceful rural area of such high landscape importance bordering our National Park

Improved trains, buses and park and ride options with parks well outside of the congestion points are a far better solution for local traffic and a destruction of prime countryside in the national park for a bypass that could be prevented by overpasses rising above the roundabouts is a seriously flawed and shortsighted proposal.

There should be no contest. This answer has been obvious for decades now.

I use the A27 round a outs at Chichester and have considered for years that flyovers and lights. would solve the traffic flow problem.

The through traffic using the A27 represents a small proportion of the problem compared to local traffic, a problem that will not be solved by a bypass, whilst causing irreversible damage to the area. Instead we urge them to support a series of upgrades and improvements to the existing route which will benefit the City and the wider area to both the north and south.

Surely the needs and stated wishes of local users of the A27 (who use it so much more than road-users from elsewhere in the UK) should have priority

The villages whose peace would be shattered and whose communities destroyed---the Downlands from whose peaks the views would be ruined---the unique charm of Chichester's northern approaches, a charm which would be irreversibly annihilated---all these are reasons NOT to build a northern bypass.