Driving hell (From Penarth Times)

Driving hell

I TOTALLY agree with Anthony Ernest's comments about the difficulties experienced by drivers at the Stanwell Road/Victoria Road junction (Penarth Times, April 7).

I frequently use that junction and usually experience a long wait to turn right from Victoria Road towards the traffic lights at the Hickman Road/Plymouth Road junction.

But isn't the problem exacerbated by the siting of the bus stop outside the Conservative Club and opposite the Victoria Road exit?

If traffic is waiting to turn right into Stanwell Road and there is no traffic but a bus parked at the stop, it is dangerous to attempt to circumnavigate the bus, though many cars do.

It is impossible to see any traffic is coming from the traffic lights because of the brow of the hill over the railway lines.

Further down Stanwell Road there is another major hazard and that is the mini-roundabout at Trinity Church where five roads lead on to the roundabout.

To try and come out of Grove Terrace it is impossible to see traffic approaching from Cornerswell Road.

Other problems at this spot are that many vehicles drive straight across the hump-roundabout and not around it, and some pedestrians use the hump as a halfway "staging post" to cross the roads.

It is a wonder there hasn't been a major accident.

Many people often wonder who draws up the plans for traffic management and question if the planners are non-drivers.

Margaret Read Lavernock Road Penarth