Road restricts driver visibility

Letter: Good visibility is vital when joining a motorway. It gives slip road drivers the confidence to increase speed to match that of the main carriageway and it allows main carriageway drivers time to let the slip road vehicle merge safely with high-speed traffic.

Why is this obvious fact ignored at virtually all junctions of Telford's Queensway dual carriageway? The slip road markings actually reduce visibility by forcing accessing vehicles away from the main carriageway.

Presumably this was cheaper (but not safer) than fixing crash barriers. And every year we have the additional hazard of metre-high grass between slip road and carriageway to still further limit the time when drivers can see each other. I'm sure the Highways Department has done risk assessments, but has anyone actually driven on the road?

Roger France

Muxton