{"id":34626,"date":"2025-11-19T20:48:33","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T20:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=34626"},"modified":"2025-11-19T20:48:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T20:48:33","slug":"lodge-hill-changed-priority-at-a34-slip-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=34626","title":{"rendered":"Lodge Hill \u2013 Changed Priority at A34 Slip Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025111901.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nTraffic heading towards Lodge Hill through Bagley Woods on the A4183 (Oxford Road) should be aware that the junction layout has now changed. A new <em>Give Wa<\/em>y has been introduced at the south-facing slip road onto the A34, meaning vehicles travelling from Abingdon and joining the A34 now have priority. Drivers are given advance warning with <em>Give Way<\/em> signs at 200, 100, and 50 yards, as well as at the junction itself, along with two <em>Changed Priorities Ahead<\/em> signs.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025111902.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nEven so, it\u2019s an unusual layout and has taken many people by surprise. Thanks to Nick for highlighting the change. It was mentioned on a local WhatsApp group yesterday by someone who was nearly caught out by it; signage appears to have improved since then.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025111903.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nElsewhere on the A34 slip-road works, earthmoving continues and has expanded. From ground level, it\u2019s still hard to get a sense of the final layout at this stage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Traffic heading towards Lodge Hill through Bagley Woods on the A4183 (Oxford Road) should be aware that the junction layout has now changed. A new Give Way has been introduced at the south-facing slip road onto the A34, meaning vehicles travelling from Abingdon and joining the A34 now have priority. Drivers are given advance warning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[139],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-road-works"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}