I feel for anyone using the A512 route at this time

A512 Improvement scheme

It is with some apprehension that I write this letter but the level of the frustration at the method, traffic management system and general lack of thought about the execution and proposal of this work gives me, and I’m sure many others cause me to want to write to you.

I have for many years travelled the route along the A512 through Shepshed back and forth between work and home.

As anyone who has travelled this route knows the hold ups caused heading east were always caused by the offset junction at Leicester Road and Ingleberry Road.

This ineffective junction more than often caused tailbacks back towards Snell’s Nook Lane. Once past this junction the onward journey toward Ashby was more or less straightforward.

The improvement work proposal simply doesn’t seem to address this, yes, it allows tailbacks to be stacked into two lanes from the quarry eastward but that doesn’t speed up progress.

In addition, I notice that the Iveshead, Charnwood Road, A512 junction will not allow someone coming down Iveshead Rd to turn left toward Ashby, what an earth sort of decision is that, utter madness indeed. The alternative will have to be going up Iveshead Road and turning right onto Charley Rd and this junction is notoriously dangerous and some very severe accidents have happened here over the years.

I cannot believe how apparently mismanaged this work seems to be, the delay at how the traffic management is being managed at the Leicester Road junction is unbelievable, the countless times I’ve eventually passed that junction with all four sections on single traffic only to see minimal work being done at Ingleberry Road.

We also now have a whole lane dedicated to traffic turning into Snell’s Nook Lane from the university to the Snell’s Nook Lane junction?

It’s clear no one from the works team is watching the lengths of the queues building up.

I really feel for anyone having to use this route at the moment, luckily for me I’m now retired, but you all have my deepest sympathy.

I’ve managed civil engineering works before and I wouldn’t have had to retire if I had managed them like this, as I’d have been sacked!

Colin Morgan