Hello Jams. Queen’s will have an enormous cachment. The traffic getting onto Eastern Ave is often heavy. Looking at Google Maps traffic info right now (Monday lunchtime peak time for accidents) it’s red round Newbury Park at the junction Barkingside residents might well be using, and also some red stretches down the alternative route – A118 round Goodmayes.We’d be best to come over the top, down Fairlop road and join further east.
Of course, traffic problems on the A12 would affect routes to King George from Ilford, too – but the thing about George is that it’s right on the edge and doesn’t have a 360 degree rush hour like Romford does.
They’re going to need loads more ambulances to speed up the journey.
The Queens by the Care Quality Commission is very important – at the same time I don’t want to object to closing King George on that basis. Queens needs to improve whether or not King George closes – doing Queens down risks impeding that improvement (they have trouble attracting senior A&E medics for example), so I don’t want to join in with that…