'We found that the delays on the motorway are caused by congestion on the motorway generally and not the toll plaza'
I'm surprised that nobody's brought this up yet. Can anyone make sense of this statment? Admittedly, a month ago I was brought to a halt shortly after the Red Cow roundabout thinking that the hold up was due to the W'link. Then I saw that people were just rubber-necking a ferris wheel and the W'link was all clear.
But this statment would seem to be a play on words on 'the removal of the toll plaza would not improve the capacity of the M50'. I don't think anyone's complaining about capacity but they are complaining about the throughput. How can they say that the WL doesn't contribute to delays? Surely to God if the thing wasn't there, people wouldn't have to slow down to an average speed of about 2mph and traffic would move along. Why do traffic reports indicate that traffic is backed from the West Link to 'xxx'?
Am I missing something here? They're effectively saying that the West Link doesn't incur any delay in travel.
''The lack of capacity on the existing motorway and the design of the interchanges, combined with high traffic volumes, determine journey time and not the toll plaza". So if they took the toll plaza away it wouldn't reduce the time it takes to get from the southside to the airport?
Did they perform this survey off paper with toy cars or did they actually try it for themselves?