The Back Road as a Commuter Route

These pictures show the official new access route from A19S to the Rountons and Appleton Wiske.

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Above: A long straight section showing one of the very few passing places at a field gate with a farm tractor for scale. It is soft and muddy so too bad if you don't have 4 wheel drive.

Right: The same section on a rainy day showing the state of repair with deep potholes and grass growing in the middle of the road. It floods much worse than this after heavy rain.

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Above: The East Rounton junction after light overnight snow. Note that the road through the village is gritted and cleared. The side road is literally like polished glass. To make life interesting there is a 4 foot deep ditch and a hedge close in on either side.

Right: The road winding up Hagget Hill showing deep ditch, hedges and tyre tracks.

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About 200 vehicles a day are expected to travel along this road in the near future. Peak traffic being 40 cars/hour towards the Rountons and 10 cars/hour leaving towards Crathorne.

The present traffic level totals only 3 vehicles per hour at peak times. In summer it is a popular cycling route because there is a safe road bridge across the A19. It is about to become a lot more dangerous. I doubt if too many local drivers will use it, but delivery vans coming from Stockton and Middlesbrough almost certainly will.