Guide to Beehive Roundabout

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Guide to Beehive Roundabout Highway Improvements
November 2009
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Guide to Beehive Roundabout Highway Improvements

• Importance of Haslingden Road Corridor
• Key strategic route into Blackburn from the M65
  Motorway
• Provides access to key health care, employment
  and education in the area
• Royal Blackburn Hospital, Shadsworth Business
  Park, Local Primary and Secondary Schools
• Number of planned future developments along the
  corridor

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Guide to Beehive Roundabout Highway Improvements

• Existing Problems and Challenges
• High levels of tidal congestion during peak
  travel periods
• High levels of delay northbound to Beehive
  Roundabout in AM period
• High levels of delay southbound to Guide
  Roundabout in the PM period
• Associated delay on M65 Off-slips, queues extend
  back to mainline carriageway
• Results in significant delays on side arms along
  the
• corridor

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• Whats already been achieved
• www.sharedwheels.co.uk
• Improved transport links with the hospital and
  the town centre
• Developed information material to promote public
  transport to the hospital
• Development of National Cycle Route 6

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Traffic Queuing AM Peak Period
Royal Blackburn Hospital
Beehive
Guide
Key Queue
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Traffic Queuing PM Period
Royal Blackburn Hospital
Beehive
Guide
Key Queue
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Existing M65 to Beehive AM Peak Hour Average
Journey Times
AM Northbound 2.5 Minutes
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Existing Grimshaw Park to Guide PM Peak Hour
Average Journey Times
PM Southbound 14.5 Minutes
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• Haslingden Road Corridor Transport Study
• Detailed transport study undertaken to identify
  problems and issues along the corridor
• Study identified capacity and lane discipline
  problems on stretch of carriageway between Guide
  and Beehive roundabouts
• Lack of capacity and lane merging causes queues
  to block back along the corridor during peak
  periods
• Detailed microsimulation traffic model of
  corridor developed to test different improvement
  options

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Preferred Improvement Option
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• PARAMICS Model Videos
• AM Base Vs AM Do Something (Preferred Option)
• PM Base Vs PM Do Something (Preferred Option)

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• Improvement Scheme Benefits
• Before After Time Saving
• AM Northbound 2.5 minutes 2 minutes 30 seconds
• (M65 to Beehive Roundabout)
• PM Southbound 14.5 minutes 5 minutes 9.5 minutes
• (Grimshaw Park to Guide Roundabout)
• Reduced queuing on approach to approaches to
  Guide roundabout, and on the M65 off-slips
  during the AM peak period
• Reduced southbound delay on the approach to
  Guide Roundabout in PM peak period improving
  side road access
• New controlled crossing to improve safety for
  pedestrians and reduce severance providing
  improved access to bus stops

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