A new roundabout has been built on the A133 to give direct access to the Brook Park site just before you enter the Town.
This is a dangourous roundabout as most of the traffic from the town turns into the Brook Park site to goto Tesco's, B&Q, and Currys superstores.
This cuts up the Wheely bypass as originally intended, also the roundabout is offset towards the Brook Park, so youi will have to stop at it comining into town.
An Alternative route is turning off at the roundabout for St Osyths going to the Gorse Road Trading Estate and then turning left on to London Road and following this past the Robin Hood Pub until you get back to the main roundabout coming into town.
Essex County Council.who now have now privatised thier websiteTraffic web site or General Information on Travel in Essex
There are three Clacton's! Little Clacton, Great Clacton and Clacton-on-Sea, so make sure you choose the right directions.
Coaches also leave from London Victoria Coach Station on a regular basis and take about the same time as the car journey (2 hours)
The nearest Port is Harwich, which is convenient for travellers from the Continent and provides excursions to Holland at two trips a day. See the Ferry details at Stena Line.
The nearest Airport is actually in the Town. But the nearest International airport is Stanstead in Essex, you can take a train from there to Chelmsford, where you change to a Clacton-on-Sea bound train.
Once in Clacton-on-Sea there is a limited Bus Service also supplied by First
Great Eastern, Heddingham Coaches
and the
National
Coach Company.. The hourly #74 bus service from Colchester stops in Station
Road Clacton.
For Public Transport by Bus see Travelline
No 2 Bus Clacton-Weeley-Tendring-Maningtree-Mistley
NO 3/4 Clacton-Thorpe Le Soken - The Oakleys - Dovercourt - Harwich
Tendring Council have changed the layout of the centre of town recently
You can end up going round in circles by going north up Pier Avenue from Station Road, where you are forced back into Rosemary Road going South back to Station Road.(see Red Arrows)
From July 2007 The centre of town has a new square at the junction of Pier Avenue and Station Road (The Yellow Area) which blocks traffic from going down Station road to the Front, it may only turn off down Pallister Road or take a round trip up Pier Avenue towards Rosemary Road, where it will be forced down Rosemary Road towards Station Road again! To get out of this loop take the High Street to Carnavon Road for the Beach or Hayes Road to leave Town via Carnavon Road or Via Alexandra Road to Wellesley Road.
Best to Take Carnavon Road direct to the Front if you want the Beach rather than coming into the centre of Town!
Other Companies can be found this web site
Transport Most people travel
by car, due to the limited bus service, so there is good Public Parking in
the Town provided by Tendring District
Council
There are also regular Coach trips from various operators to Clacton on Day
trips.
There is only one car hire company in Clacton
CC Hire, Ford Road CO15 3DS
Clacton Aero Club
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They have installed many new crossings protected by Traffic lights in the centre of town and reversed the traffic flow of Jackson Road.(see Red Arrows)
Traffic from the Shopping Centre is forced to turn left on Rosemary Road, instead of being allowed through the centre of Town
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