Saddlescombe Road and Devils Dyke Road will be closed between 12.30am and 9.00am on Sunday 13th July thanks to the 2014 Night Time London to Brighton Bike Ride. Access to adjacent properties will be maintained and alternative routes for other traffic will be signed on site.
Category Archives: Transport
A23 still on schedule
The West Sussex County Times reports:
Southbound traffic will be diverted onto the newly constructed carriageway in two phases, with the first planned in early July and the second at the end of July.
During the month, the southbound entry slip road at the Handcross junction — which has been closed since February while it was be rebuilt and improved — will be re-opened.
The work will be carried out overnight, between 8pm and 6am, and only one carriageway will be closed at a time. Dates will be publicised of the closures nearer the time.
Clearly signed diversions will be in place via the A264, A24 and A272.
Hassocks Station plaque
Fulking residents will remember Gina Field as one our MSDC Councillors, when she came to Fulking PC meetings. By 2003, Gina had taken a back seat at the PR business she founded (Field McNally Leathes PR) — still based in Hurstpierpoint.
One of her key local campaigns was to persuade the train companies to retain frequent services through Hassocks Station, and also to improve the indifferent 1970s station building. She always saw Hassocks as a vital stop on the London to Brighton line, and a gateway station for the forthcoming South Downs National Park.
Hassocks Station was rebuilt and opened in July 2013. The improved underpass opened a few weeks ago, and it allows disabled people to use lifts to traverse the station, whether they are rail travellers or not.
This plaque is now at the main entrance to the station.
Richard Corner
Lorry fire closed A23 at Pyecombe yesterday afternoon.
“The smoke was so thick it could be seen from Burgess Hill.” [Photo by Eddie Howland.]
A27 Action Campaign
A campaign to:
- improve the A27 trunk road junctions at Brighton;
- create a new junction at Lancing;
- improve the A27 Worthing and Lancing corridor;
- create an A27 Arundel bypass;
- improve A27/A26 access to Newhaven.
- improve the A27 Fontwell junction; and
- improve the six junctions on the A27 at Chichester.
Update 26th June: reports in the Eastbourne Herald and the Littlehampton Gazette.
The 77 summer service
As from today, there is a full daily bus service from the Dyke to central Brighton. Buses run (roughly) every 45 minutes and National Trust members can park up there for free. Here’s the timetable [PDF]. The service reverts to weekends only in September.
Improving the A27
Readers who have the misfortune to be regular users of the road may be interested in one or both of these recent items:
- Optimism on the West [Littlehampton Gazette]
- Opposition to the East [Eastbourne Herald]
A second runway for Gatwick
As an official body, the Parish Council has been asked to comment on the options, and is therefore holding a public meeting on Wednesday 30th April at 7:15pm in the Village Hall to hear the views of the local community. Click on the image if you want to download the consultation documents.
