Merry Christmas!

Great video.

Ho ho and you too buddy. Keep it up. 😊

Happy Christmas to you. I particularly appreciated the sequences of Salisbury & Guildford. Can you give a full list of where you filmed please?

Thank you for this and all the others. Happy Christmas.

Thank you for all of the excellent M25/A3 videos this year. Happy Christmas.

Fine

Knowlton Church

It must be due to open any day now?

They’re building a bridge. But it’s a bridge with no apparent road over it. Don’t get it.

This was a marvellous spot for birds but I wonder what will happen to all the nesting skylarks now, recent grubbing up of all the undergrowth must have disturbed many other species. Will be sad to see it go.

Langstone Harbour

Langston harbour

Hi. Sorry but they are all fantastic. But I can wind it down to number 2 and 4.

Langstone Harbour... As its local to me 😂

Highcliffe castle.

I'm liking you are now including wider view in some parts, we can see a bit more context. Will you be filming the former Guildford Collage of Law. as It gets demolished and rebuilt as retiremnet flats?

You are probably correct with the dates to install the bridge beams, but there are a couple of things that could disrupt that. If you look at Rob's video 9th November, at 1:27 in the top right corner you can see 4 concrete beams ready to install. There are now 13 on them on site and another 9 due in January, having being delivered from Ireland. So we really need all 22 beams on site. But more important is the weather. We will be using two large cranes to lift the beams and need low wind speed to do it safely. If the wind speed is too high, the closure will be postponed, probably for two weeks.

I Heard That The A3 Will Be Closed From Friday 17th January 9pm To Monday 20th January 2025 To Install This UK's First Heath Bridge And Can't Wait To See What This Will Be Like

Someone remind me what the plan is with the a3 portion running over the junction. Staying as 2 lanes wide or being demolished and rebridged as 3 lanes?

Yes thanks for putting these videos together. It's good to see the progress over time, but it seems to be taking so long...there just never seems to be many people working there!!

Brilliant, thank you.

Still trying to work out how you are maintaining VLOS in these flights?

Nice video, but what's the answer for the south bound A3 traffic to go clockwise on the M25. Still looks like the same queues as 3 years ago.?

Thanks for these updates, pity the traffic isn't like this all the time😂😂😂

Another excellent video Rob, once again!! Keep up the good work! Is it my imagination or do you always seem to film when it’s quiet? The traffic is free flowing here, long may it last!! 😂

So why isn't it open yet? It was due to open last month and the date was confirmed only a couple of weeks before a further delay was announced. Surely the officials must have known when they "confirmed" the November date that it wasn't going to be ready. Why do we seem incapable of building things on time in this country - particularly when they are connected with railways.

I used to run this store for 15 years , the new development will complement the riverside , good luck to the developers as they knock it down😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅

It can’t be the M25 because the traffic is moving!😂

Brilliantly done! Nice wide pavement for pedestrians and cycles, too. Thank you for the video :)

I'm old enough to remember when it first opened as "Plummer Roddis". It's only when you see it from the air like this that you can see just how big a building it is.... and the recent glass "atrium" side to the building is the first part to go :-(

New building is H&M Guildford construction please

6 months left? No chance, that will be extended

This part of the improvements have not changed in weeks. Why can't Balfour Beatty and Highways England finish off parts of the project instead of doing some work and then seemingly leaving it for weeks? The A245 coming east is still a nightmare, largely due to the single lane from Seven Hills Road to the Painshill junction

The end of an era 🥺 Used to work in the Intermission restaurant mid to late 90s. Cracking job, staff , customers & friends. I miss it a lot !

As viewers try to work out what National Highways intend at the Wisley interchange it is this: Travelling from the south on the A3 to reach RHS Wisley you must go past Wisley to the M25/A3 interchange and return down the A3 to the Ockham roundabout, thence into RHS Wisley. On leaving RHS Wisley, if you intend to go south you will drive to the Ockham roundabout and will be "required" to travel north on the A3 to the M25/A3 interchange and then retrace your steps southwards on the A3. Thus the original process where you slipped off the A3 into Wisley is no longer available, while the original method of gaining access to the A3 from Wisley remains the same. Some people will be thinking that if they are on the northbound A3 intent on visiting RHS Wisley (from the south) then they might leave the A3 at Burnt Common travel through Ripley to the Ockham roundabout thence into RHS Wisley? In a similar manner, when leaving RHS Wisley if intending to go south, rather than schlep all the way up to the A3/M25 interchange they could easily travel through Ripley and join the southbound A3 at Burnt Common. As I understand it, National Highways is minded to put a 20 mph speed limit all through Ripley, enforced by speed cameras to force the above discussed ingress to and egress from RHS Wisley. Patently the A3 was intended as a bypass for Ripley, but National Highways seems unaware of the possibility that traffic at an enforced 20 mph crawling through the village in 2nd gear, creating noise and pollution may not be well received by Ripley . Why is this happening you ask? Apparently a couple of MPs and others opined that enlarging the Ockham roundabout, and putting in a slip road from the north bound A3 to the roundabout, and from the roundabout to the southbound A3 was unnecessary. Meanwhile of course, there will soon be 1700 homes built on the old airfield. This would suggest that 1700 wage earners +/- will have to turn out for work everyday. Some will wiggle through Ockham and Horsley, some will go north but, I would suggest, many of them will want to go south to Guildford and environs. Why would those people ever want to drive all the way up to the A3/M25 interchange and drive all the way back when, even at an enforced 20 mph they could drive through Ripley to join the A3 at Burnt Common? Chances are National Highways will say they did not know about the 1700 homes, when the likelihood of homes being built on the airfield has for many years been as predictable as the ending of the movie Titanic.

That unfinished slip road into the empty field on the left of the roundabout suggests they are going to chuck up some more houses in there!

Great video

Needs double yellows on both sides throug the estate

Great video

are there any plans for whats gonna replace it?

I pity the people living in the houses that were on a quiet estate road but are now on the main A323 road from Guildford to Aldershot.

Looks a bit narrow on the bridge for 2 artics

Thank you for the updates, particularly today's. Although my favourite has to be the M25/A3 junction.

Some drivers can’t even stay in lane with three lanes. It’ll be carnage when they get even more to stray in and out of.

Ham Barn roundabout near Liss on the A3 does need a new junction with a roundabout to be built and slip roads. And the existing roundabout that is a total bottleneck to be removed so that traffic on the A3 can flow freely.

Wisley Interchange that where the M25 and the A3 meet is quite a busy interchange and it’s nice to see reconstruction of the new wider roundabout. That would take more traffic coming off the M25 and A3. Ham Barn roundabout near Liss on the A3 also needs a new junction and the existing roundabout to be removed.

Junction 10 on the M25 near Esher does need a rebuild as it’s a very busy interchange with the A3 London-Portsmouth road that passes through Guildford. And I have heard that the A3 could have avoided Guildford with a bypass. Or a tunnel that would have seen the A3 pass underneath Guildford. With the Hindhead Tunnel that was built to allow the A3 to pass underneath Devils Punch Bowl south of Guildford.

Could someone possibly explain the various routes available at the complicated junction visible at 1.46 please? Is the upper road heading off to the right a one way 2 lane entrance to the RHS? Is the road heading ‘up’ at the top of the view a two way road, if so it doesn’t seem to line up with the one way exit road at the bottom. All a bit weird…

Actually, I could not see that much difference.