| Roads
With new the new housing development after the second world war, and
the moving in to Reading of many new office blocks. The traffic in Reading
was very bad before the building of the M4
motorway in 1971, and the taking away of through traffic helped
the town. To help with the traffic in the town the Inner Distribution
Road was started in 1969 but remained half completed until 1989 due
to difficulties finding the money.
The next planned improvements were the A33 Relief Road, to remove traffic
from the crowded Basingstoke Road. This was completed in 1999 just after
the building of the Madejski Stadium
for Reading Football Club.
The other planned road improvement of the 1970’s never came into
being. The plan for a Cross Town Route, from the Oxford Road to the
A329M in Earley would have relieved traffic in certain very busy areas
of town but also damaged the green space around the River Thames.
Another plan which has not yet been carried out is for a third bridge
over the Thames to take pressure of the roads in the town centre. This
was planned to cross between the A329M and the Henley Road near Caversham
Park Village. However, the road would have to cross into Oxfordshire
who objected to the plan as the County Council thought that more traffic
would pass through the small roads to the north of the bridge.
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