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admin · Site Admin Joined: 08 Aug 2007 Posts: 15

One thing that sticks in my mind was the lack of cars travelling through the village only as far back as 20 years ago. The village was never choked solid as it is at times these days. The junction where the Alphinbrook Road meets Church Road was just a simple and uncongested T junction.

Young Daffyd · Joined: 08 Apr 2008 Posts: 2

I don't want to be controversial, but I used to travel to work from Kingsteignton to Colleton Crescent in 1974/5 - then the new A30 wasn't open and the only road from Haldon Hill was through Alphington. This meant that the traffic was backed up all the way to the boundary of Alphington on the Chudleigh Road - Rentakill used to have an office in the first or second bungalow on the way in, on the right and the jams would start before there.

One morning there was a particularly long jam of cars because a motocyclist had gone under a lorry on the Green

gioiosa · Joined: 09 Aug 2007 Posts: 23

I did not live in Alphington until 1981 so I missed these traffic jams. It was interesting to learn that in 1974/75 the roads were just as jammed as they are today. I admit that when I was working I had only to drive round the corner onto Marsh Barton!

These days it is just as quick to take the mountain bike on trips to St. Thomas and the City and there are no parking problems when I arrive!