Ipley Cross

Tom Scott has a new video on the infamous Ipley Cross, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYeeTvitvFU

The article in Singletrack is also very good: https://singletrackworld.com/2018/01/collision-course-why-this-type-of-road-junction-will-keep-killing-cyclists/

Thoughts?

Thanks for this, which I didn't see at the time you posted. I've cross-posted it in the two threads we have on the deaths at Ipley Cross:

https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/209530/

https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/314669/

Looks like they approved the change and they'll change it in Autumn hopefully
https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/19037605.plan-ipley-crossroads-staggered-junction-approved/
https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/19241633.work-ipley-crossroads-staggered-junction-start-autumn/
https://www.hants.gov.uk/News/08102020Ipleycrossroads

An ugly scheme, but understandable. Here's the scheme page:

https://www.hants.gov.uk/transport/transportschemes/ipleycrossroads

Direct link to the drawings:

https://documents.hants.gov.uk/transport/IpleyCrossroads-TechnicalPlan.pdf

If it didn't have a more negative impact on the forest, I think I would have sought to create a 90-degree crossroads north of the existing junction. Staggered junctions are very far from ideal. While this will obviously remove the existing risk, it will create new ones, as well as sending cyclists on an indirect dog-leg with two turns to make (I'm sure the main flow of riders is along the C63, but there are bound to be some who use the C97), but let's hope it works.

I can't help but think that the problem at this junction will have been exacerbated by the building of the Tesco on the north-east corner of Applemore.

I'm very far from clear as to why this should cost £450k. That seems far too much. Perhaps @Charlie_L knows more?