Nobody else seems to have mentioned it, so I will; the Coulsdon bypass
opened sometime yesterday,18-12-06. It was closed when I went to work,
but had opened by the time I came home.

I haven't seen it in daylight yet, but I noticed something strange this
morning. I catch my bus from a stop on the section of road which has
been bypassed, and since about September the traffic has been even
worse than usual; it's not just school traffic, as it's still bad
during half-term week, and later in the morning, when schools have
started; I don't know the reason.

This morning,looking up at the new bridge over Marlpit Lane, there was
a fair ampunt of traffic on the bypass, but the main road seemed to be
just as busy as before. I can't believe that the new road has caused a
sudden increase in traffic overnight. For much of the time the traffic
on the main road was at a standstill, as indeed was that on the bypass.
there seemed to be serious congestion at the new northern junction, by
the Methodist Church, where the bypass traffic re-joins the main Road.