A32 road

UK road routebox
road= A32
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direction= South-North
start= Gosport
destinations= Fareham
end= Alton
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junctions= ukroadsmall|27
ukmotorwaysmall|27
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ukroadsmall|31The A32 is a road in Hampshire, southern England, that links Gosport and Alton. Starting at Gosport, facing Portsmouth, it travels north via Fareham, Wickham, Droxford, before joining the A31 road near Alton. The road is 29.2 miles long from the seafront at Gosport to the roundabout with the A31 near Alton, and has entirely non-primary status.

Despite it's non-primary status, the road forms the main access to the town of Gosport. At rush-hour times, the road is often extremely congested (northbound in the morning rush, southbound in the evenings) as commuters head through central Fareham from the Gosport penninsula to the M27.

The main pinch-point is the mile long section of road between the Newgate Lane Flyover (junction B3334) and the Quay Street Roundabout in central Fareham where traffic delays often cause northbound tailbacks of three miles at peak times. During the evening rush, traffic can at times back-up to the M27 at Junction 11 and along the slow lane (Lane One) of the motorway.

There have for many years been plans to provide a light rail solution to the traffic problem by utilising the former Gosport to Fareham railway line but this was scrapped in 2005. There are now tentative plans to use the railway line for guided bus services.

External links

* [http://www.sabre-roads.org.uk/roadlists/f99/32.shtml SABRE page on the A32]