Ashridge Interchange  

   "The Ashridge Interchange Movement ('AIM') is a non-party organisation that exists to promote the
   best possible traffic solution for Wokingham for the least overall environmental impact."

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The Woosehill Planning Inspector's Report, 1974

The Woosehill Inspector's Report four decades on

Seeking a way out of Wokingham's Traffic Nightmare

• Through traffic clogs up Wokingham town centre and its main approach roads; a small incident, or road works, brings the whole system to a standstill.

• We must find a way to remove through traffic from the town centre, and to provide alternatives.

• We must reduce traffic flows on the Reading Road and London Road.

• How can this be done?

• We believe there is only one long-term solution: to open the Ashridge Interchange (see the arrow on the map; click on the map to follow the links to detailed articles).

• We need to minimise its impact by placing a link road to the Reading Road via the Emmbrook School site .

• We also believe that the Station Level Crossing must be eliminated, to be replaced by a bridge link from Oxford Road .  

Image produced from the Ordnance Survey Get-a-map service. Image reproduced with kind permission of Ordnance Survey and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland.

In early 2012, Wokingham Borough Council published its plans for a Northern Distributor Road and a Station Link Road, neither of which we believe will relieve the town centre of through traffic or ease congestion around the station. They totally ignore the warnings from the Woosehill Planning Inspector from 1974, who predicted chronic traffic congestion around Wokingham if his warnings went un-heeded.

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