ON FRIDAY December 2, when people in Sholing went to work in the morning, the junction of Kathleen Road and South East Road was biased so that Kathleen Road was the major throughway. It has been like this for at least 35 years or more.
During the day some very clever people came along and changed the junction to make traffic on South East Road have priority. Result: Friday evening there was a multiple vehicle pile-up at the junction, with people injured.
No prior warning was given, no consultation done. I live just down the road from here and the first I knew about it was when I was on my way home on Friday evening!
Just change it and put up two 18in sq signs just before the junction to tell people the priorities have changed.
Tell me, if you went to work in the morning and a junction was biased the way it has been for dozens of years would you expect it to change during the day, without prior warning?
I hope the people that thought of this scheme are proud of themselves and I hope they are held to account if anyone has or does die as a result of it.
We have an old saying in engineering: “If it ain’t broke don’t fix it”. Why did they feel it necessary to fix it when it has worked perfectly well for all the years that I have been living in Sholing?
CHRIS BARKER, Sholing, Southampton.
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