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Can anyone techy help with drawing a presentable map of these roads?
I've just drawn one by hand, and double checked all the roads on google-maps to see if I'm right, and the TFL case for the one-way system appears much weaker than I'd thought.
The scheme runs North/South, and it's very interesting to look at the access points to the one-way system. As these very roughly form a grid, I'll look at North/South and then East/West.
At the Northern end, the scheme starts where the A3220 connects to the Shepherd's Bush Roundabout. This is a single carriageway in two-way operation for the first stretch heading south.
At the Southern End is Cremorne Road. This is also a single carriageway in two-way operation.
So, North/South, there are already bottlenecks where the road is single carriageway.
Looking at the East/West points:
High Street Kensington may be a double carriageway on the eastern side, but on the western, towards Hammersmith, it goes down to a single carriageway.
The A4/Cromwell Road may be a 6-lane monster, but on the Warwick Road side, only one lane turns off into it.
The Old Brompton Road is a single carriageway.
The Fulham Road is a mix between a single and dual carriageway, albeit that there is plenty of space for 'stacking' at junctions, and it goes into 3 lanes to allow this.
King's Road, equally, is a single carriageway in most places, with short stretches of dual carriageway.
So, with the exception of the A4/Cromwell Road, and HSK going east, every single road is a single carriageway in two-way operation before it reaches the next significant junction. That must be fairly significant.
The one-way system is 2-lane for almost the whole length, save for along WR between OBR and the A4, and as 'stacking' on the junctions before Fulham Road and the KR.
Factoring in stop/start for traffic lights, what benefits, then, does this scheme offer over having these roads in two-way use, if 'stacking' were preserved?
Now, at the moment, this is on a sketch map, and isn't very presentable. Can anyone offer any suggestions/help with drawing a road layout diagram. Is there software that's out there that people use for this?