{"id":3044,"date":"2023-08-07T02:29:42","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T02:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/surprise-changes-at-portsmouth\/"},"modified":"2023-08-07T02:29:42","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T02:29:42","slug":"surprise-changes-at-portsmouth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/surprise-changes-at-portsmouth\/","title":{"rendered":"Surprise Changes At Portsmouth"},"content":{"rendered":"
Press<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Q<\/span>ueries\u00a0<\/span>R<\/span>esults of <\/span>S<\/span>everal <\/span>T<\/span>enders (1)<\/span><\/p>\n Then comes what was once the only bridge link, at London Road Hilsea.\u00a0<\/p>\n The old road and bridge, to the right of the newer mega roundabout, is now a car park!<\/p>\n … and, so important was Portsmouth’s naval purpose that the only toad access to the Island was via these easily defended arches …<\/p>\n … part of the military defences called “The Hilsea Lines”.\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n Also recent, and a little further east, is a footbridge …<\/p>\n … which takes pedestrians and cyclists from the hinterland of Hilsea over the water (but not much of it) and over the A27\/M27 and down a jolly spiral to Highbury on the mainland<\/span>.<\/p>\n This goes under<\/span> the A27 to another bit of Highbury. It’s a bit spooky.<\/p>\n The final bridge is on Eastern Road.<\/p>\n Back in the day (1930s?) only the London Road and the Railway linked the mainland with Portsea Island.<\/p>\n So it was that Portsmouth Corporation ran public transport on the Island and Southdown looked after country routes to the north and east. Hampshire Bus came in from the west.<\/p><\/div>\n Even after privatisation in 1986 stability eventually returned to something similar.\u00a0<\/p>\n