Council not giving our routes a thought

LETTER - For several years now we have had to suffer roadworks on the A442 between the Hadley Park Road roundabout and Epson.

This is one of the busiest, most congested feeder roads in Telford, with traffic moving at a crawl any time between 8am and 9am and 4.30pm to 6pm most working days.

Now our car-hating council is installing traffic lights outside Gekko which will ensure that our stop-start journeys to and from work use more fuel and cause more pollution than before.

The Epson roundabout used to have three lanes leading into it but that has been squeezed to two.

The majority of traffic wants to turn either left into Hortonwood or go straight on towards the Trench Lock Interchange, yet the council has ruled that this traffic will all share the one lane, with the outside lane being empty most of the time.

The small move of directing traffic for the Trench Lock Interchange into the outside lane would improve traffic flow, but this would appear to be too simple for the council to comprehend.

Also the council did not appear to consider, when spending our money on the Trench Lock Interchange, that traffic from the Newport direction heading towards Wellington now uses the Hortonwood Industrial Estate as a shortcut.

Other areas of Telford grind to a halt because of bad traffic management.

The new traffic lights are outside a yet-to-be-built industrial estate so we will have the pleasure of watching single cars from Gekko stopping dozens of cars on the A442.

Would the council like to put traffic lights at the end of Teresa Way to help me get out of my estate each morning?

James Weir, Leegomery