Dangers at new Station Link road have been overlooked

There has been two letters in the Wokingham Paper recently concerning the possible dangers of not having a filter light for traffic turning right from Reading Road into the station link road.

Yet the biggest danger at that junction has been totally overlooked.

When one approaches Reading Road junction from the station there are two traffic islands both displaying blank white discs indicating traffic can pass on either side.

That is fine for the left hand island separates traffic turning left towards Woosehill from that turning toward the town centre. The second island should have a keep left arrow to prevent traffic going to the right of it against ongoing traffic.

As regular users of the road will know there are still occasionally drivers who don’t realise that after the station the road reverts to two-way traffic and they drive on the wrong side until confronted by oncoming vehicles.

It’s an accident waiting to happen. Locals will recall that despite repeated warnings from the public the council only erected a no entry sign at the bottom of Station Hill following a minor accident, are they waiting for the same thing here?

I did point it out to Cllr Richards, the now deposed former Executive Member for Highways, but he wasn’t bothered.