Road Traffic Infrastructure - B3233 and Cedars Roundabout Survey

Picture of traffic at Cedars Roundabout

I am asking those who live near one of North Devon’s busiest and most frustrating road systems, the B3233 and Cedars Roundabout, for their views. I know many people will use this roundabout and get caught up in this junction.

I remain dismayed at how poorly the traffic management system has been to accommodate road traffic works at Cedars Roundabout. It did somewhat ease as people started taking the delays into account and making changes to their journeys, but it need not have been this difficult.

I do genuinely hope this quite expensive scheme does help the traffic flow, councillors and officers were pleasantly surprised at the trial that it did ease congestion, which is why they backed it. Regardless of this, what this whole debacle has highlighted, not that it really needed highlighting, is that our councils have very little in the way of solid plans to ease congestion on the B3233.

I saw more interesting suggestions for plans moving forward on social media than I have in any Council powerpoint presentation.  I have been speaking with the Department for Transport (DfT) about the severity of the situation, and I am hoping to be able to present some potential solutions to councils and DfT alike.

Please let me know your ideas by emailing me, but also by filling in this survey. You can post it back to me, or take a photo and attach it to an email, or fill in the survey on my website.

Data matters, which is why I need this survey filled in by as many people as possible. I can then present the ideas to Devon Highways and the Department for Transport, backed up by the strength of feeling shown by the number of surveys.

Road Infrastructure Survey

  • Road Congestion on the B3233
  • National Issues
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  • Your details
1.1. How often do you use the B3233
1.2. Do you primarily…
1.3. If you work, where do you work?
1.4. How often did congestion impact on your journey times before the roadworks started?
1.5. How often does congestion impact on your journey times since the roadworks started?
1.6. Do you think the current proposed measures to Cedars Roundabout will make much difference?
1.7. Developers provide funding (S106) for infrastructure, in Cedars case over £800,000. Some changes would not cost vast amounts of money. Some of the ideas below have been suggested, would you like these possibilities to be looked into?
 S106 funding will not be able to fund all of this, but having a plan means we can bid for funding. The Link Road improvements took years to bring about and only after my predecessor secured £1.5 million in government funding for design work. Devon County Council, even after the Government Link Road funding was provided, contributed millions more to the scheme. I think the next major scheme should be the “A39 Fremington Link”.