CAN someone please explain to me how the traffic management in Bromsgrove is determined?

Much money and time is being spent on altering the road layout on the roundabout at the junction of Stratford Road and the Bromsgrove bypass, it is being done to aid accident improvement! Why then, when entering the island from the north along the bypass, are there two lanes with arrows indicating passage straight ahead; yet when exiting the island there is only access for one vehicle?

This is reinforced by a new island with raised kerbs, making it impossible for any two vehicles travelling in the same direction to pass freely.

I have already on two occasions seen vehicles in conflict at the point of exit from the roundabout, one supported with much gesticulation and horn blowing. I suppose as this is being done in the name of "accident improvement", then it is correct as this will, I am sure, improve the severity and quantity of accidents tenfold.

Equally, great lengths and cost are being undertaken to reduce the width of the Birmingham Road leading to Manor Lane. This is a very quiet road known locally as the learner's mile due to the lack of traffic.

Very little pedestrian traffic uses this road and the main vehicle usage is from the articulated lorries that have there depot at the fare end. So why then if a road used primarily by large trucks and very few pedestrians is the road width being reduced and the pavement with increased to more than double its current width?

Finally, if we have so much spare cash to spend on rearranging our roads, why don't we do something about the traffic light layout on the Stourbridge Road/Birmingham Road junction? When approaching from the north, the left hand lane filters traffic only to the left, whilst the through traffic must take the right hand lane and inevitably be held up by persons turning right into the Stourbridge Road. You don't have to be a rocket scientist to see that if the left hand lane was for left turns and ahead only and the right hand lane for filtering right only, then the traffic would move much quicker and safer. I am sure all drivers who use this junction have seen people in the right lane pull into the left lane to go straight on!

Paul Whitehouse

Old Birmingham Road

Bromsgrove