WE always hear calls to dual the outer ring road but has anyone ever considered what would be achieved?
Forgetting the none too inconsiderable infrastructure challenges (three bridges over railways and rivers and a very narrow strip of land at Earswick), the biggest problem on this road is, and always will be, the (close) proximity between the junctions.
A dual carriageway would merely replace the queues at roundabouts with traffic gridlock, as drivers attempted to join/exit by way of slip roads.
Incidentally if you include these slip roads, the road would have to be six lanes wide for almost the entire length between the A59 and Hopgrove.
Instead, use the many millions of pounds on reopening the railway stations at Haxby and Strensall and later at the old British Sugar site.
Then subsidise commuter rail and bus fares to the cost of £1 per day return into York.
This would at least help alleviate the traffic at the rush hours on this most congested of roads.
Richard Creaser, Wigginton Road, York
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