On Friday 25th October 2024 the section of A418 Oxford Road between Coldbarbour Way and Meadoway closed permanently for through traffic. This video shows the road in operation for the last time.
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Thank you for the videos. Hopefully, once this 400 yards of replacement road is installed we will no longer be inconvenienced travelling into Aylesbury by the over engineered, unneeded, over budget white elephant project that is HS2.
I don't even want to think about how much time it has taken to build 400 yards of road (where perhaps 100 yards would have been more than enough) and how much it has cost UK taxpayers. As for nearly three weeks accumulated closure of the A418 – heck they should have been able to build the whole 400 yards in that much time. (In china, they would possibly have built 40 miles of road in that much time – instead of seeing 40 people every day standing around doing nothing and one person operating an excavator as you see daily on HS2, you would see perhaps 40 excavators working and maybe only one person standing around giving orders).
If HS2 had just been a project to lay a simple railway – rather than a futile attempt to terraform a mile wide pathway from outside London to the middle of Birmingham – this whole project might have been delivered years ago at a substantially reduced price.
Thanks for the "last" video although I am sure you will be riding the old road from time to time before the cutting for the line is dug.
I have travelled this stretch of road many many times over the years when going to Didcot, Chinnor or Wheatley. Will I miss it? NO!