HS2 - A418 Oxford Road, Aylesbury - LAST DAY | 25th Oct 2024

[@davidhartwell4826]

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!

[@chrisbailiss7309]

Is the intention really to move to the new alignment (i.e. over the bridge) in just a week's time? From some current drone footage on another channel, it appears most of the new alignment is still a total building site, most of it has no road surface laid yet, etc. That seems a huge amount of work to do. I expected the one week closure would be for the tie in of the new section as opposed to a massive amount of work still to do on the new section as well.

[@KarlVaughan]

I believe that the new road will open on 4th. That is what I've heard and also what HS2 have said in their documents. I know it doesn't look like that's possible at the moment but I guess we'll find out in due course. I'll do another update midweek to see what progress they've made.

[@nickgiles7568]

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.

[@KarlVaughan]

I'll be curious to see what happens there.

[@andrewwilliams0619]

Can we see wot the road was before add a old map of the area too and now wot it lookings like now like a before and after picture or photo too

[@KarlVaughan]

When the new road is finished I will make a video all about the old road. I've got a few photos showing how it used to look. It'll be an interesting video to do.

[@pmkeith]

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.

[@KarlVaughan]

Compliment combined with a rant. Nice one!

[@nickgiles7568]

Could not agree more. Of course this may not be the end because hopefully we may get a south western / Stone bypass around the town before the century is out!

[@davidhartwell4826]

Problem is these days everything has to be over engineered and gold plated.

[@carguyuk7525]

I'm guessing you are not keen on hs2 .

[@pmkeith]

@@carguyuk7525 you don't say? but then again, I guess anybody who regularly uses the A418 is probably also not enamoured by the project either.