LET this be the final, final, final letter about our new flawed traffic system.
I have just realised that the council has replaced a functioning roundabout system with a shiny new, ‘ringing all bells’ adaptation of a roundabout system, and put us ratepayers into a maintenance contract for millions, whereas two men and bucket of bitumen could suffice.
Let me expand my brainwave – the whole idea of a roundabout was to dissipate traffic, allowing the driver time to decide whether to go or not.
Much of this decision-making has been taken out of his/her hands but the theory is the same. By dividing lanes you actually halved the flow, but then comes the crunch in more ways than one. Several times coming off the new traffic lights you are supposed to merge when the lanes join up – a crash is bound to happen.
Solution: make the geniuses who designed this cock-up don hard hats, bulldoze their mess and return to the natural way of traffic routing and then they can step over a wall near Asda and sign on at Westwey House.
• Mark Griffiths Stoke Road Weymouth
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