Sir.–The traffic problems at Basingstoke hospital (as recently reported in The Gazette) could be solved if a more direct route was made by building a road across the large field between the Aldermaston Road and the hospital, thus avoiding the L-shaped Priestley Road.
Why does the priority of traffic have to travel on the road to the Royal Mail offices?
As for that empty field, which has been there for many years, surely this could be used for a car park for the hospital?
When it was first planned to have the hospital built, surely a better layout and road system could have been thought out?
After all, the hospital’s first section was opened in October 1969, while the Priestley Road Sorting Office was not opened until 1978!
–Robert Brown, Doswell Way, Basingstoke.
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