This is the main road entrance to Bournemouth Airport and I personally think this is entirely sub-optimal. Making this worse is that there is no routine bus service to the airport and so passengers are forced into getting a taxi or having someone drive them (or drive themselves). Those options aren’t cheap and the airport seems to be resistant to doing anything useful here.
It is of course just coincidence that the airport has a £5 drop-off fee and really doesn’t want people being dropped off at the exit to the airport approach road.
They’ve been busy putting these photos along the road, just in case anyone missed the previous three. And, other than for a short stretch, there is actually a pavement.
No safe pedestrian access? There’s a pedestrian crossing here and a wide pavement.
The council wrote to the coroner (here’s the letter), after someone died (yes, quite), saying that they didn’t have the power to add a pavement to the short missing section of the road that didn’t have one (in the top photo) but they would support the airport to make this safe.
Anyway, for anyone with a backpack (or at least, not something they have to wheel along), it’s relatively easy (if they like walking….) to walk into the airport across the nearby fields (and I’ll likely post about that soon).