A CONTROVERSIAL traffic island has been reopened after alterations were finished.

Worcestershire County Council engineers have now completed the alterations to the left-hand ‘slip-road’ taking traffic from the M5 roundabout, heading towards the A4440 towards Malvern.

Your Worcester News fielded dozens of complaints from drivers saying the left-hand turn lane was a safety hazard, allowing little visiblity, leaving little time for drivers to safely pull out, while one motorist alleged it had caused a road crash.

Following that criticism and its own “on-site monitoring”, the county council then decided to make some alterations to the lane.

These works have included moving the junction back towards the M5 roundabout by about 30 yards, so it now lines up with the junction with the roundabout, and new repeater signs warning drivers when they need to ‘give way’.

The lane reopened at lunchtime, today.

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