Roading issues

The proposed Bryce/Anglesea Street’s intersection changes now underway are creating chaos for three weeks or longer and will only further slow traffic flow forever when completed.

Furthermore, what’s with the ‘humpy bumpy’ mentality of council planners breaking up our city roads with ‘raised platforms’ and safety humps.

Council stats of up to 41,000 movements per day (traffic, people and buses) through this intersection with only 23 crashes in five years as evidence of the need to stuff up traffic flow is a joke.

That’s one crash every 3.25 million movements over the five years quoted.

Leave the intersection alone and applaud the city’s drivers/pedestrians for such a low accident rate.

Focus your energy and our money on the city’s real problems ie, inadequate stormwater/sewage systems.

After the ‘traffic calming’ disasters in chicane fashion at Heath St/Caseys Ave among others some years ago plus the pencil thin orange pipe markers in River Rd that even confuse cyclists and the new humps disaster that the Claudelands road bridge now is, I have real concerns for the efficiency of the city’s road transport system with these decision-makers we’re lumbered with.

This is the same council regularly cutting into asphalted CBD roadways not with pedestrian crossings for our citizens to safely cross the road but raised coloured paved sections that aren’t officially legal crossings eg Bryce St/London St.

Now council are putting signs on these to inform people that you can cross there (‘at your own risk’).

Why not save thousands and let people cross the roads when no vehicles are present.

Saving lives and injuries . . .you’re joking.

Stop buggering up the roads.

P R Perry, Hamilton