Measures outlined to ease congestion as Travellers leave festival - Buckinghamshire

From the Slough and South Bucks Observer

TRAFFIC measures have been outlined to stop the chaos that brought Langley to a standstill on Monday.

The hundreds of Travellers currently attending a Christian festival on land between Parlaunt Road and Market Lane are expected to leave between 7am-1pm tomorrow.

From 7am tomorrow, traffic leaving the event site will only be allowed to exit left onto Parlaunt Road and will be directed east and south - up Parlaunt Road towards Iver or down Sutton Lane towards the M4 and M25 motorway junctions.

To ensure this takes place there will be a temporary stop and go system on Parlaunt Road and Sutton Lane and in front of the exit from the site.

The traffic lights at the junction of Parlaunt Road and Sutton Lane will also be switched off.

This will remain in place until 1pm, when it is hoped most of the visitors will have left the area.

Police will be on site throughout.

Insp Nicola Pierce, from Slough police station, said: "Unfortunately the stop and go system may hold up traffic temporarily on Parlaunt Road and Sutton Lane, but this will only be for short periods and it will be in a controlled manner.

"We and the council would like to thank residents for their continued patience in the face of some disruption, low level anti-social behaviour and traffic congestion."