Roadwork plans 'are dangerous'
LETTER: So the Highways Agency is to spend half a million on installing traffic lights and revised lane markings at Emstrey Island, Shropshire Star, January 1.
So the Highways Agency is to spend half a million on installing traffic lights and revised lane markings at Emstrey Island, Shropshire Star, January 1.
This is in defiance of the unfavourable reception given by road users to the similar work at Ketley Brook and Trench Lock.
On motorways the lane indications are on overhead gantries where they are clearly visible and there is plenty of space. We are considered to be not worth it and will get the cheap alternative of painting on the road.
Drivers coming up to Emstrey fall into two categories. The first lot is probably local, familiar with the road pattern. The second lot is made up of strangers.
They very much need to read the writing on the road. Vehicles will be queueing at the lights and covering the markings, so they'll end up in the wrong lanes.
These proposals for Emstrey Island are, at best, irritating and, at worst, dangerous.
David Lake
Bridgnorth
