Plan to change Walsall Arboretum junction scrapped
Saturday 24th December 2011, 10:59AM GMT.
Proposals to change the layout of the multi-million pound Walsall Arboretum junction have been scrapped by the council amid concerns it could cause congestion.
Highways chiefs were considering reducing the number of lanes from the Broadway North approach following claims the current system is confusing.
Alterations were trialled this winter but bosses have now axed plans to make it permanent due to concerns over extra traffic problems at the main junction.
There are two lanes for traffic turning right from Broadway North into Lichfield Street, towards Brownhills. Vehicles then merge into one almost immediately after they have turned right.
Bosses had looked at reducing lanes to one at Broadway North. But the current system, which has been in place for three years since the junction was completed in the £23 million ring road work, will now remain the same.
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Ok I can appreciate that making only 1 lane for traffic turning right from Broadway into Lichfield Street could cause tailbacks up the hill – however the number of near misses I have had from other road users who come through the junction in the right hand lane when I am in the left hand lane and then almost hit me when their lane merges rather quickly must now be in triple numbers!!!!!
Perhaps the Highways Agency could put up a very large warning notice at the traffic lights advising that the right hand lane merges into the left hand lane and that drivers in the right hand lane have right of way.
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its enough to make a taxpayer weep when you think of the amount of public money that has been spent on that junction, and the end result and current status quo is a situation which is often even worse than before the first pound was spent on the wasted project .a tiny fraction of that money would have been better spent on improved traffic light phasing and a widening of the road outside walsall police station
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