What is the logic of having lights on the east and south of the Quay Street roundabout but not on the north and west? Trying to join the roundabout from Western Avenue or the bus station is a nightmare - no wonder there are so many accidents and near-misses.

Well, there's a gaping error on the first line: no trunk road runs into Gosport, so that ruins the main argument.

As for the Quay Street lights, it is to reduce the stop-start effect on the Gosport Road and to make it easier to pull out of Western Way. You may be interested to know that when the Tesco opens here the roundabout will be re-built and a shortcut* will be provided for Gosport-M27 traffic.

The reason that Gosport has such a poor road network is largely because a lot of development (especially outside Collingwood where there was nothing in the 70s), but the roads haven't changed. If you take a look at the motorways in the area, there is an M271 and an M275, and there are documents to say that there were once plans for an M272 and an M273 both serving Southampton (one of which would have used the missing M27 J6), so is it not possible that there were rough and undocumented plans for an M274 serving either Fareham or Gosport?

* - Shortcut, but not flyover.