Gosport/Lee Browndown Rd Closure

[XmisterIS]

I wonder if someone here who is local to Gosport might be able to advise regarding a little oddity I noticed the other day on my evening circuit!

Browndown rd, which runs from Gosport to Lee on Solent is closed for major works. The whole thing is dug up, so they've had to close the footpath too.

The alternative route is not a problem, it's no more than a mile longer, if that.

BUT ... (here's the oddity!) ... if you approach the closed road along the seafront going from East to West (i.e. from Gosport to Lee), the diversion is very well signposted. If you approach from the other direction (Lee to Gosport), it just says "road closed", but there are no "diversion" signs. Nothing. Nada.

I was cycling West to East the other night and I came accross a campervan which was sitting in the entrance to Browndown Rd, with the driver looking completely bewildered! I stopped and asked if he was lost, he replied that he was on holiday in the area, wanted to get to Gosport, had been told to go down Browndown Rd, but when he found the road closed without any diversion signs he was well and truly stumped.

Add to that, the diversion is easy to find if you know where you're going, but it's not clear at all just by reading the signposts - you have to go up into Gosport a little way, and round a couple of roundabouts - you could easily get very lost not half a mile from where you need to be.

So ... I wonder why the diversion is signposted from Gosport to Lee, but not in the other direction!

 

[numbnuts]

So ... I wonder why the diversion is signposted from Gosport to Lee, but not in the other direction!

run out of signs

 

[Suerdusty]

They're probably not expecting anyone to actually want to go to Gosport!

 

[montage]

I commute this way to college every day.
I remember there were bad traffic lights right next to browndown, but haven't been there recently. Where may I ask is the diversion?

 

[XmisterIS]

They're probably not expecting anyone to actually want to go to Gosport!

Lol! Well, quite! I take it you have seen Gosport then

I commute this way to college every day.
I remember there were bad traffic lights right next to browndown, but haven't been there recently. Where may I ask is the diversion?

Looky here: http://www.multimap.com/maps/?qs=browndown+rd%2C+gosport&countryCode=GB#map=50.79033,-1.16716|17|4&bd=useful_information&loc=GB:50.78875:-1.17167:17|browndown%20rd,%20gosport|.

Instead of going privett -> browndown -> stokes bay, you have to go up privett to the roundabout that connects with the top of gomer lane, then down gomer lane to stokes bay road.

 

[Evilcat]

Apropos of very little, is the Cocked Hat pub still on the roundabout? Used to go up there 35 years ago with my dad and the cat when we lived off Gomer Lane. Dad would have a beer inside, I'd have a fizzy drink and the cat would sit outside eating cheese and onion crisps...

EC

 

[XmisterIS]

Lol! I dunno, I think it probably is still there! I will have a look next time I go past (usually I am more focussed on the traffic, as you can appreciate!). I do seem to remember there being a pub there.

BTW, the roadworks are now gone (I cycled down Browndown Rd about an hour ago).