The time has come..... After years of argument and planning discussions, the junction at Saltaire roundabout is to be altered, to try to relieve the traffic congestion. I have mentioned before how dangerous it is. At present six roads converge, three of them main arterial routes. There are numerous accidents, even more near-misses and I feel that I'm putting my life and my car at risk every time I try to negotiate it.
Starting later this month, they are going to remove the roundabout, close off two of the smaller roads and make the junction traffic-light controlled. The work is predicted to take up to six months - so that will be six months of increased hell for all of us living locally, with the hope that in the long-run it will be better. I doubt it will reduce the congestion and queues at peak times but it might make it a safer junction.
I thought I'd better take a photo for posterity. This view will soon look a bit different.
Hope you are not inconvenienced for too long. Shame to have congestion in such a nice village.
ReplyDeleteSo they're removing roundabouts where you live... Here they just keep adding more and more of them. There's hardly a junction without a roundabout left in town!
ReplyDeleteSix roads converging? That is an impossible mess. In many situations roundabouts are preferable to traffic lights. I am not sure that any solution works for an intersection with six roads entering.
ReplyDeleteI find roundabouts rather daunting, especially if there's a lot of traffic. Fortunately, they are rare in my part of the world.
ReplyDeleteHere we have roundabouts everywhere. They really improve safety when they're well made. I hope you'll be safer when work will be over.
ReplyDeleteWisconsin has become crazy for roundabouts...I'm not so sure about them I drive through 3 in the 4 mile drive to our fields. Last week an elderly gentleman clearly did not know what to do with one. 6 roads seems a bit much!
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