The A22 and A corridors provide access for local communities to healthcare, education, retail and leisure uses as well as providing access to the seafront area in Eastbourne. It is also important for supporting the delivery of potential new housing, growth in the local economy and access to jobs. There is often heavy traffic on the A22 and A at peak times. Development is planned in south Wealden and Eastbourne which will increase the amount of traffic in the area.
Without improvements, this congestion will increase, which will undermine the local economy and reduce access to key locations. We have developed possible junction improvements on the A22 Hailsham bypass and near Stone Cross that will reduce congestion, and provide more road space for private and public transport as well as for cyclists and pedestrians.
We are currently seeking Major Road Network funding from Central Government to enable the delivery of the package of improvements to the A22 junctions on Hailsham bypass and at Stone Cross.
This will be supported with financial contributions already secured by Wealden District Council from housing developments in their area. Northbound A22 traffic has to negotiate two sides of the triangle. Heading from Beeching Way it continues under one corner of the one-way system, and traffic that had stayed in the right-hand lane on London Road, or come up from the town centre joins from the left, and unless it wants the B immediately needs to pull over into the right-hand lane.
The B then has a roundabout just off the mainline, which for some reason has an amazingly complicated cycle-lane system on it. Perhaps it is so the cyclists don't feel left out with all the fun drivers are having! Heading passed the station into Station Road, B traffic joins on the left. There is a set of traffic lights the only non-pedestrian lights on the one-way ring where a local road joins the fun.
A22 traffic then peels off to the left. Then follows an unusual half-mile stretch of road. It is in a cutting which was the old line of a disused railway that linked Tonbridge, East Grinstead and Crawley, as betrayed by its name, Beeching Way. Dr Beeching actually lived in East Grinstead and turned what used to be an important railway crossroads into a single terminus.
The bridges over the cutting have all been rebuilt, and additionally the road has intermittent hard shoulders for no reason other than there being the space for them to be there. There is then a roundabout with the old road, now part of the B The A22 then continues south with a very long and tedious section of semi-urban 30mph limit.
It is downhill now, there is a sharp right bend and a sharp left bend as we go down on a realignment past Ashurst Wood. It is through these bends that the road enters East Sussex. At the bottom of the hill we arrive in the village of Forest Row, which sees the start of the Ashdown Forest.
A mini-roundabout sees the our old friend the B turn left towards Tunbridge Wells. Time to start climbing uphill as we snake our way through the northern part of the forest — this is where you hope not to be stuck behind an HGV. After a set of traffic lights at an unclassified road junction, we reach the junction with the A towards Lewes. Another straight stretch of road, quite wide too allowing you to overtake the lumbering lorries.
Watch out for deer crossing this part of the road in the forest — they cause a lot of damage. A slight right bend takes us to the top of Ashdown Forest where on a good day you can see all the way to the South Downs in the distance.
Downhill again before a short climb into the village of Nutley. Nutley sees the end of the Ashdown Forest as we arrive at the roundabout with the B and the original route of the A22 through the village of Maresfield. In fact, the A22 was built because the N was one of the most dangerous roads in Europe, which it still is since apparently most people are unwilling to fork over the toll money simply to save their lives. Why would you want to cruise along with one hand on the wheel and your elbow getting sunburned, when instead you can white-knuckle your way through congested intersections and around cars whose noses are expectantly stuck out into oncoming traffic.
The idea of charging tolls was possibly based on the theory that people would use the road even if it cost them a small fortune.
I mean, how much is your time worth to you? After the government paparazzi have photographed the licence plate, all anyone has to do is stop by a post office and wait in line for 45 minutes behind several people who have extremely complicated mailing arrangements or are attempting to pay their tolls.
One theory is that the government is counting on many of us forgetting to pay at all, so that when we finally do remember extra charges have been added.
Change the language to English and the country to United States. Click here to hide this message. Source: Rcsprinter The A22 is one of the two-digit major roads in the south east of England. Radial, it carries traffic from London to the Eastbourne area of the East Sussex coast, in which town it ends.
For part of its route the A22 utilises the turnpikes opened in the 18th century: By the road ran for 34 miles from Stones End Street, Borough, London to Wych Cross. The road was extended north to Westminster Bridge which was later renamed the A
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