Road changes causing block
Fixing Oswestry's traffic system is like mending a leaky pipe. Bung up one hole, and more spring up or, in the case of the proposed traffic lights on the Salop Road/Roft Street junction, create one blockage and more will follow.
Fixing Oswestry's traffic system is like mending a leaky pipe. Bung up one hole, and more spring up or, in the case of the proposed traffic lights on the Salop Road/Roft Street junction, create one blockage and more will follow.
What can we expect from lights? Tailbacks on Salop Road. More misery for Roft Street as drivers are attracted by the certainty of exiting the junction.
Rat runs in Stewart and Ferrers Roads - already these streets are pounded by more than 600,000 cars a year from the central car park. When Marks & Spen-cer opens in August, this figure can be expected to grow.
No wonder Castle ward has the worst living environment (air quality, traffic accidents and housing quality) in Shropshire.
Census figures show that 46 per cent of households in the central area do not even own a car. Traffic lights on Salop Road will only add to our problems.
A pedestrian crossing, which would have the virtue of breaking up the traffic at the junction, allowing drivers out of Middleton Road would be a much better alternative.
M Campbell, Oswestry
