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Best and Worst in Reading, Berkshire*

Reading, Berkshire Triumphs and Tragedies

Favourite Building

• Madejski Stadium, Home of Division 1 Football.
• gotta be the lion in forbury gardens! but its not really a building! okay so maybe the Boiler room near forbury gardens is pretty cool
• prob oracle (the shops) and boiler room (one of the best places to hang out if forbury is too cold!)
• All the 1900 redbrick buildings and the new Thames Water building is superb (I really want a go in the stairwells!).
• Brilliant, just because it's so darn kool
• off-lience
• New one on reading bridge
• The Oracle's car park- which looks like the biggest cheese grater i've ever seen.
• The train station
• The town hall. Possibly as it's the oldest.
• Abbey Ruins.
• The Energis building is pretty funky. also the Forbury area, and most of the places above the ground floor! Also check out the epitaphs in St. Mary's cemetery. We did have a couple of nice listed buildings knocked down by "accident" to build the Oracle too...
• 'Jacksons' at Jacksons courner, go in and see how time has stood still since the 40's.
• Abbey ruins. Perfect to chill and a great venue for open air Shakespear as well.
• Gibb House.
• It's a tree actually ! the one outside St Mary's church - affectionately known to many as the 'Trippy Tree'
• The Abbey Ruins, St Laurences Church, and the Crown Court are all rather nice and the BBC Monitoring Centre is quite impressive from the train. Madejski Stadium is of course the finest in Britain and looks good from the M4 The Huntley & Palmers building is rather nice too.
• Town hall is good
• Thats a toughie.
• Probably the police station.
• Lots of them in broad Street if only people looked up! I think it was a 17th century visitor to Reading that said " a fine town from the first floor up"or words to that effect.
• Town Hall
• Waterstone's book shop in Broad Street. It used to be a church don't you know? A place of worship as well. I don't know.
• The old town hall.
• Colley's Supper Rooms -- Abolsolutely Fantastic.
• The new football stadium
• Reading Museum/Town Hall
• Reading Abbey hidden amongst the Pru's vast complex are the ruins of a once great abbey
• Reading Brickwork. The best in the world. Newer interesting stuff includes the Hexagon and Council Chambers complex, and the old Metal Box building on Kings Rd opposite the prison.
• I really like the Energis building. It makes me laugh. It is opposite the prison near the train station. It is like something out of a 1960s space age film. There are other nice buildings, although the council tend to knock them down as they much prefer to build new ones that will look appalling in about 10 years time. Hmm that makes sense in two ways... My colleague here is very keen on the top of shops along Broad Street. Most of which are empty.
• The Abbey ruins. Not every town has a king buried in it! (Now there's a fact!)
• There is no great architechture in Reading so if thats what your after then it's not worth the petrol but my favourite building is St. Annes School. It's not even a hundred year old but it brings me a lot of memories and also the the church next to it isn't the ugliest thing in the world.
• Fav. modern building is the Prudential one in Kings Road. Fav. old building is the Town Hall - beautiful red brick and interesting displays in the museum.

Demolish It Now Building

• Broad Street Mall.
• Energis..urgh...I feel very sorry for the people who work there (or are being made redudndant there!!). It looks like it has sick building syndrome.
• All of them.
• This must be one of the ugliest town's in Britain. demolish it all. Now.
• The Chatham Street car park (which is not actually on Chatham Street at all) has gradually had more and more of itself sectioned-off from public use, so that one entire wing of the hideously ugly structure is now completely out of use. The heavy duty steel braces holding up the ceiling in other, still used parts of the building do not inspire one with confidence...
• JD Sports (townie central)
• West street walkway, harris aracde, utopia, whitly, early, the subways near the station gross
• Broad Street Mall
• oracle, cos it'll take aload of trends with it
• Utopia, RG1, Purple Turtle, St Marys Church (eyesore)
• the whole town should be destroyed
• a red brick slum called whitley & don't forget whitley wood & southcote.
• the balconies on the hexham flats look like ironing boards!
• all of the 30's and 50's council houses in whitley. theyr'e rough & diabolical.
• oracle
• The Broad Street Mall. A glowing representation of 60's architecture at its finest.
• the coley flats, not a nice site.
• everything in the TVP, destroy it all before it destroys you and don't say I didn't warn you! Oh yeah, the entire basingstoke road and everything on it (apart from safeways and B&Q) espeacially all that new stuff down by the motorway.
• The new Prudential building. UGH! hideous monstrosity. Who is responsible for that thing?
• The former Metal Box building dating from '74/'75. Now home to the Energis Corporation. Yes its sad but its had its day
• Reading university has a building called "FURS". It was built in the 70's and looks like it's made by a twat with a lego kit and a dream. Please demolish it before it becomes too old and they make it a listed building.
• The Oracle! and the Oracle car park which looks like the biggest Remmngton in the world.
• The Oracle, the various chain pubs, the luxury flats that keep on turning up everywhere...
• RG1's..god its bad, badder than bad, but still it pulls the punters..fair play!
• Too many to choose from
• The Oracle The Matrix
• Apex plaza. What were they thinking of?
• Gibb House
• Energis ! DESTROY IT NOW !
• I could happily live without Whitley and the Oracle is an eyesore. Most of the Office blocks in Reading are hideous especially the Energis buiding on Forbury Road.
• that old grey thing opposite Forbury that u see if you go there by train from wokingham. its a feckin' disgrace!
• This would have to be Chistia upstairs in Reading mall because of its fake DC's and batty townie clothes
• Apex Plaza - vile pink edifice near the railway station
• that pub in the train station was a bit of an eye sore I must say - though generally the architecture in Reading was like the town it's self - bland.
• Hmmm... What can I say about the Oracle. Arty, if you like that sort of thing. Personally I think it lives up to it's nickname "The Orifice".
• Demolish all of Whitley now - please God!
• Council Offices
• Chatham Street Carpark. Concrete monstrosity, must go, and the Level One club will fortunately go with it.
• The Madejski Stadium
• The Oracle even though they havn't finished it yet! A huge set of square building blocks. Plastered with a few red and white bricks is not good or new architecture. A child of five could come up with a better design.... with thier own building blocks.
• That concrete monster between on the Forbury Road, next to the retail park.
• After Dark in London Street. Oh, someone did it already and forgot to tell the punters. Second thoughts, don't do that. They'll all spread out into the rest of the town. See best things.
• The ORIFICE "regional shopping/leisure experience?" what's that supposed to mean?
• Eagle Star house on London road.
• The Broad Street Mall. No matter what they do to try and update this shopping center, it will always look like something out of the 70's. There aren't even any shops in there worth visiting anyway. Flatten it and make room for more pubs !!!
• St Mary's Butts Centre.
• Too many to mention!
• Foster Wheeler building opposite the train station, big shiny brown mirrored type of affair. also i used to work there and it was most unsatisfactory
• The worst thing about Reading is the fact that it is home to Prudential. everywhere you go, you hear Prudential mentioned....somebody knows somebody who works at Prudential. Reading should do itself a favour and get shot of the six or seven different Prudential offices- definately falls into the Demolish-it Now Buildings catagory. Hopefully by then i'll have another job and won't get flattened to much!!!!
• Along the Kings Road, going out of town on the left had side is a gross building. It is pure 80s and has mirrored purple windows - foul! My colleague says - "my work - along Kings Meadow!"
• THE ORACLE!!!!!!! I know it's not built yet, but I hate it. It's gonna ruin Reading.
• The building I hate so much has to be Reading Station, opened in 1989 by HRH the queen it needs sorting out, It really is outdated, it has nasty pipe things holding up the ceiling and it just is a horrid building. I have no more to say, except Reading Borough Council, SORT IT!
• All the Pru buildings (they're building another you know!)
• There's just so much choice. I'll go for Broad Street Mall.

The Best Things

• Forbury gardens, every1 knows each other, shops
• Its not Luton! The people are genuinely friendly!
• London is 25 mins away by train. Still as town's go it's OK. Lots of wierd people too. Plus living in Reading means that you don't live in Bracknell, Basingstoke, Slough....
• Bugs Bottom fields & the forbury!
• drinking
• Plenty to see and do....
• Forbury
• Pert breasted young Nymphomaniacs from Abbey school-so rumour has it. The fact there are so many jobs that i can be really late every day and nobody fires me.
• It's fully cabled, meaning that broadband 'net access is cheap and plentiful. There are also quite a few parks.
• Caversham is a superb place to live and I love the river, even though it threatens to flood every year and cut us off from the rest of Reading. We're very fortunate to have Womad and the Rock Festival on our doorstep as well. ALSO: Close to Heathrow airport. Excellent train service to London (20 mins) running all through the night. Loads of well paid jobs in the IT industry and financial Services. People are quite friendly which contrasts with most towns in the South East. Reading is sufficiently big to be interesting but not so big that going out is a hastle like in London. If you work there too, your life is a piece of cake compared to that of the commuters.
• the amazing town centre.
• Getting back home from which ever hole you've just come from. Using Reading's transport infrastructure to leave it.
• I dont live there.
• lots of choice
• Reading actually has a lot of interesting history to it, pity the council likes to knock it all down. Apparently there is a massive organ hidden some where in the museum. Also, did you know that the Oracle was named after a 17th century workhouse... very appropriate!
• Forget building any theme parks and such nearby. The no.17 Reading bus afterdark is the best party in town!
• the motorway and train station
• It's not New Romney (poxy village in Kent where I grew up) and it's handy for London
• One of the lowest prosecution rate for smoking naughties in the country!
• Having read a load of the previous comments I'd have to say that it's the sense of humour of Reading people. I've buggered off to live in Paris myself, but I'm often back and I enjoy the old place. Reading people are terrible moaners and there are more nutters and wierdos per square inch than surely another town but it has character. Most of my friends and family have had the chance to leave..but haven't. Why? There's some kind of weird magnetic force in the Town Hall I think...
• 613 Oxford road - easy rider.
• The Trippy Tree - St Mary's Graveyard The Purple Turtle, 12 years on & still packed - what a winning formula
• Reading is a reasonably bohemian town with a thriving sub culture and diverse ethnicity. Being a University town it benefits from having a lot going on and is generally a friendly town to live in. It's no London or Manchester but has more going for it than most towns. It also has reasonably low unemployment. It is also fairly self contained so the town centre is fairly compact and it is close to the countryside if you want to escape for a few hours
• could it be any easier to score drugs?????
• Sk8ing
• Near to London Lots of jobs
• It was quite funny the way the council and the evening post wanted the place to recieve city status. To me Reading will always be a one horse town full of Nazis and London over spill - nothing remarkable at all.
• Beautiful caversham by the riverside, silly amount of pubs (though mostly full of townies), lots of cool parks, very cosmopolitan mixed-race community.
• Shopping, employment, wages.
• The new Madeski stadium, home of Reading FC.
• Its 20 minutes away from Basingstoke, where I live, and is a world away in terms of general life, soul, alternative representation and general coolness, and of course holds the Reading Festival. Thank God for Reading when you live in Basingstoke
• You don't see many pigeons about do you?
• Reading has everything you need, entertainment wise. If that's not enough, London is only a half hour away on the train.
• All the drips and nerds who give themselves an identity by wearing black congregate in one spot (After Dark in London Street). They know their place.
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• The festival and the relaxed atmosphere.
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• The bike path along the canal is not bad-so don't complain too much about the traffic. Plus there are lots of signposted routes. Parking your bike at the station is quite good in the underground car park
• I was born in Woodley and used to work in Reading and all i have to say is i live overseas now but only have the fondest memories of Reading, especially the Mall and the local Mcdonalds (oh yes and hanging out with all my mates in Burger King!). If i could come home to Reading right at this moment, i would be on the first flight!!!!
• The Thames, Pangbourne-Caversham Bridge.
• *The weird and wacky concoction of people you get bumbling about the Forbury Gardens and Abbey ruins on a sunny day - those who live in Reading will know what I mean !!!!!!!!! *OOOO and the 'Forbury fairies' little men in green suits who come every morning to clean up the Forbury that we so generously trashed the night before, they're great they are * the bar man at Bar Oz and the bloke who works in the deli section at Bar Ex cellence and the indie kid that works at HMV, plus the guy called Mark, or maybe he has a brother called Mark, I can't remember, who works in BUT IS IT ART, Broad St, Mall, on the framing counter
• Craven Motor Club - all types of motorsport catered for. Meet every Wednesday from 9:15 onwards at Redingensians Rugby Club on the A4 just past Sonning roundabout. Everyone welcome - or call 0118 961 5367
• Work - lots of it; night life - suits all; food places - lots of; in the summer there is the Thames to sit near and there are quiet spots to be found - will not tell you where as they will not be quiet if I do tell you...; when you find nice people here, they are generally very nice; close to London.
• Being able to walk into Reading Station/Forbury Gardens and seeing loads of people you know. Everyone seems to know each other. It's amazing. The fact that there is a large alternative subculture. IT'S OK TO BE A FREAK IN READING!!!!!!
• Reading Buses, even if the service ends a tad to early in the familiar deal with the local cabbies. The ten or so pubs within a thirty second walk of the town hall.
• The best things are being able go down the river or Abeey ruins with your mates and not feel threatened or scared that you're gonna get mugged or raped, you probably are going to get mugged and beateb up but for some reason you don't fear it. Strange eh? It's also knowing that sooner or later we will be blessed from heaven by the Oracle! Oh yeah thats right we have been chosen! For the newist mist innovative shopping centre in the universe, well, not quite but Berkshire anyway.
• The underground tech-step scene!!
• The huge number of pubs
• The people. No snobbery and a diverse range of cultures just getting along together and having fun. If you visited Reading 10 years ago and haven't been back I suggest you try it again. Big changes in the shopping area and nightlife. Good place to be if you can't be bothered with the hassle of London.
• The rapid transformation of Friar Street into a new Leicester square.
• Working in the Apex Plaza!
• Best bookshop in the world - ever. Waterstones on Broad street, open 7 days a week. It's a converted church and carries every last single type of book you could ever imagine. And plenty of them too.
• Reading's anti-Newbury bypass group, Reading Roadbusters meets every Sunday at RISC on London Street at 7pm. Get down there to discuss the latest tactics. Usually progress to pub afterwards.
• Best thing, without a doubt the Purple Turtle. I've not tried the new one yet (I've been busy) but if it retains a fraction of the atomsphere of the old place it'll be excellent. Tip: Do not attempt the Turtle sober, it's miserable.
• The IDR, anyone who slags it off obviously can't imagine what it would be like to slog across Reading by alternate means. I am being serious when I say it is an excellent Road. But I'd concede it's ugly as sin.
• Comedy nights at 21 South Street, fortnightly. Can be excellent but needs booking in advance, costs about 5 quids.
• The best thing about Reading is the Hexagon Classical music concert series, perhaps the best subscription series outside London & Birmingham. Many of the world's finest performers and orchestras have played here over the last few years. Perlman in 95, Zuckerman in 96. The Moscow Radio Symphony (the best orchestra in the world) has been here TWICE!!
• The best thing about Reading is that at least it provides some sort of alternative to commercialised, homogenised Thames Valley culture. If you compare it to A HREF="84.html">Slough, Bracknell etc., then it has loads of interesting little shops, pubs and places to be. The Antiques Emporium is tops! Also the local music events seem to have improved since I left the region-with Charlatans, Stone Roses and others playing at the Rivermead.
• The best thing about Reading is Heelas on George Street. Other good things: Decent bus service. Bus conductors who care. Colleys Supper Rooms
• My girlfriend lives there, so do my best mates.
• The number of places to skate.

The Worst Things

• The traffic in Reading is AWFUL. There's a perfectly good bus service around Reading, and trains arriving from everywhere. But for some reason people think they have some sort of right to drive their cars and put chemicals into the air that cause asthma and cancer. www.greenpeace.org
• All of whitley they should just drop a nuke bomb on that area and WIPE THEM OUT!!!!!!!!
• the trendies! there really really REALLY get on my nerves!!
• If you go into the 1930's slum called Whitley, all the big mommas will come out of their slums and attack you with rolling pins - very scary.
• Don't even bother picking up your Fish and chips in Whitley with your scooter if you want ten whitley kids under 14 to jump you and grab your possesions off you. They carry knives at the age of seven here. It is a warp back to the 19th century here only difference is they wear trainers.Bad location to move into stay were you are, Moss side is safer/Nicer place.
• All the bloody whingey, whiney people. For all those who have only lived in Reading or nearby......try Luton, Bury Park, or Manchester, Moss-Side.
• This is the town of no imagination - Practically everything is part of a chain. The town should be sponsered by GAP for God's sake. Plus cost of living is ridiculous and there seem to be strange rules of pulling that no outsider can master!
• townys!!!! they're everywhere!!! they walk around like they own the place and its sooo annoying. They even have the cheek 2 walk thru forbury gardens! They're loud mouth kids with huge attitude problems...we h8 them!
• townies. everywhee i go, every single person stares at me. not just stereotypical townies, everyone-people in hoodies, little kids..they need some lessons in manners. i may dress rather oddly, but its not neccassary!!
• hang-over
• Too many yobs walking around....
• Pikeys
• The sooner somebody napalms Forbury Gardens and The Rising Scum the better. They give the alternative community a bad name, with the 15-year old slags and 24 year old skag pushers.
• grubby public school kids who try & blag cigarettes if you walk though their devil worshipping domain that is the forbury gardens. Random Scouse beggers who demand food money as you're tucking into your Burger King walking along Friar Street on a Friday night/that every time you ignore beggers you get a sarcastic 'have a nice day you mean b**tard' even though they're the 10th person on the street who's asked you. Taxis and their ridiculous prices. Take a normal fare add the extras for time of night etc. then they multiply it by the number of drinks they think you've had and add on as much as they think they can get off you. Then they expect a tip despite the fact they havent spoken a word to you-merely grunted when you told them your destination-except when they make you tell them exactly how to get there when all you want to do is pass out, because they've only been here 2 days. 18 quid to Tilehurst last saturday-bargain!
• the traffic
• my uncles mate got shot by asian youths on northumberland avenue in the middle of crimeland (whitley)
• as you are walking down nice old shinfield road DO NOT turn right into the slum called whitley.
• wherever you go,whatever you do-AVOID the hexham estate in whitley because you'll get mugged by the poor people(no offence)!
• it sucks
• Trendies everywhere. People honking at women in skirts if you're walking down Caversham Road. Few alternative shops. Expensive beer. Little to do for entertainment value. House prices are phenomenal, too.
• The traffic situation is very poor, particularly since they routed all traffic along a narrow road called Sidmouth Street and opened the Oracle with woefully inadequate access. It all needs a radical rethink....and some investment! Minicabs are more expensive here than anywhere I've ever been and you *have* to use them as the bus company is so undermanned and is always cancelling services. There are too many bullshitters who are obsessed with money and salaries and they seem to be crowding out the hippies and freaky people of Reading. Sport and leisure facilities pale compared to much smaller towns like Guildford and Basingstoke. Drinking facilities are superior, though. The football team is consistently disappointing.
• drop a bomb on whitley.
• Meeting yet another gobshite
• Town centre after 8pm. Dead. Boring. Full of dodgy-looking teens with apparently limited amounts of intelligence. A place to avoid.
• I was born and raised in Reading,and it is the place that shaped my imagination.I'm both gratefull,but a little disturb by this gift.The town to me is a place of commercial myopia,and non-vision.We will always be third divion.Our buildings are commercial,our nightlife is commercial,our trainers are commercial;what i'm trying to say is that we're commercial!Basically i'd rather live in Amsterdam,or Bristol.
• too many little people.
• The river is pathetically small and theres no coastline (obviously) How are you supposed to chill by the sea?
• The council?
• The fact that it thinks it's so big and cosmopolitan. All the pubs are now shit bars, semi-clubs. You have to queue for an hour to get into some (unless you know the tricks of the trade). Full of stupid people getting too drunk too quickly and leaving pavement art all over the place.
• The puplic transport sucks, 90p from town to the end of the Oxford Road, it takes 45 mins 2 walk, or 1 hour on the bus!
• gobbing and chewing gum on the floor
• The subway next to Reading station, if you want to see 14 year old pikies injecting themselves then its the place for.
• lack of diversity
• JD Wetherspoons and their evil empire, Reading folk who've never been anywhere else in the world and think the world starts at Theale and ends in Twyford
• An increase in drunken arseholism on Weekends. Will the residents of Bracknell, Newbury, Basingstoke and Newbury please get pissed, get into fights and throw up in their own crappy towns please.
• It just needs a little bit more identity really. New bars and restuarants open all the time, but they're always 'chains' spotting a great 'B1 market' opportunity. Personally I'd like to come back and open a Parisian style bar/bistrot selling demis, cheap but good wine and good value French food. Anyone willing to invest in my project?
• Gibb House.
• Whitley - lets invite the French Over for some ICBM testing ! Friar Street Pubs - & tosser patrons
• It's bloody expensive to live there the road system is a joke. Being the the only decent town for fifty miles it attracts all forms of lowlife at the weekend so the town centre can be an unpleasant place to be on a Saturday night. Whitley has more than its fair share of ignorant people with small genitalia and large chips on their shoulders, who thing they are hard but wouldn't last five minutes in somewhere like Leeds, Salford, Toxteth or anywhere with genuine problems.
• could there be anymore police???
• Getting chucked off of some good sk8 area and that Wokingham still dosn't have a f***in sk8park
• Cultureless unfriendly desert filled with mobile 'phones and Tommy Hilfiger wearing morons
• Reading must have the most cynical whinging population in England ! They spent squillions on the Oracle centre and people still complained about it. If the council handed out fifty pound notes in the middle of Broad Street the Evening Post would get whining letters from somebody who missed out because they were in Friar Street, and someone who got the fifty notes but really wanted 85p for the bus.
• Multitude of Whitley rude boys
• Townies! Can't move for cheap YSL shirts and fake Armani jeans. Whitley is a shanty town by any other name - don't go there for ANY reason!
• TRAFFIC!
• Quality of Readings football at the moment.
• Buses all stop around 11pm. Western end of the Oxford Road.
• Tommy Burns (Reading FC manager), Lower Earley.
• The traffic system. It's crap.
• The IDR. Do not, under any circumstances, attempt to cycle around it in rush hour.
• Doddgy Irish pubs which in general raise/threaten for cash (glorious cause or something)and delight in physical violance to non plastic paddies.(Reading term for son of Irishman that has never seen Ireland let alone been there.) If any Irish pub Known that is in the least bit charming please respond.
• A Depressing town, full of SAD,..SAD people! Just take a look around, everyone walks around with their head down and most locals look absolutely miserable, dejected and SAD!..........AND WHO CAN BLAME THEM?
• Even though you swear blind you won't, you end up every single weekend in the same place , wearing the same clothes, talking to the same people about the same things and eventually end up utterly insane
• Prices; getting about i.e. traffic; bad pubs and clubs; lots of sad weirdos about; bouncers have an attitude in most of the glamour pubs - so be aware!
• Occassional violence, but this is decreasing.
• Public Transport. Don't even venture out of the door around 8 oclock in the morning or 3 oclock in the arvo, for that is when the hugh faringdon beasts are unleased from their cages onto the unsuspecting citizens of Reading. Do not travel from Caversham or Whitley or Tilehurst to southcote at any point stated above. It is advised you lock your doors and stay in dorrs, keeping all domestic pets indoors, think firework night.
• A new chain-pub every 2 weeks!
• The one-way (nightmare) traffic system
• Traffic at Cemetary Junction.
• The one way traffic system.
• Worst thing, it's in the south and near London so house prices are enormous, as are beer prices. Most other prices are too, come to think about it. I know its only money, but the point is its my money.
• The road system. It's been rumoured (unofficially of course) that the official line from the town council is to "discourage the use of all motor vehicles from the streets of Reading." They seem to be going about it the correct way: the roundabout at the bottom of Castle Hill which was never a real problem has become an accident and congestion black spot since the council "improved" it by putting 12 (yes 12!) sets of traffic lights on it.
• There is no decent architecture and the town planners have got the traffic control all wrong - witness the IDR.
• Same as any where in England: the pubs close too early and the bus service stops at eleven.
• Worst thing is fat attitudes, especially from security guards.
• The IDR is without doubt the WORST thing about Reading... anyone who believes it's an advantage to knock down houses to build the equivalent of the M25 through the centre of a county town needs therapy, to try living near it and suffering illegally high levels of pollution caused by it or failing that to be locked up with Steven Norris... As to alternative means of getting across Reading can I suggest two wheels (much quicker and more environmentally friendly) or failing that to WALK
  The IDR has recently become even worse with the introduction of (count them) 18 sets of traffic lights in two junctions on it. It now leads to the A33 relief road which has affectionately become known as the A33 grief road. It's a dual carriageway which spits you out on a single-lane mini-roundabout equiped junction with the busiest superstore business park in Reading. Miles of stationary traffic have replaced what used to be quite a free-running route.

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