Stone’s county councillor says a failure in traffic lights on the ring road has now been fixed and that traffic is flowing freely through the town.
Cllr Philip Jones wrote in a letter to The Sentinel: “The traffic problems were temporary, and caused by a failure in the timings of the several sets of lights on the main road through the town. The engineers at the county council responded promptly and efficiently to my call for action and traffic now runs smoothly through our town.”
A Little Bit of Stone readers, although accepting that the situation does seem to have improved over the last couple of weeks, wanted to hold judgement on whether the improvements were permanent, until after the Easter school break.
Grant Bigham said: “I’m definitely staying away from town when I know it’s likely to be busy. With loads of people doing that then, of course, the flow would be better. So not necessarily to do with the timings of the lights, although I hope I’m wrong.”
Dee Janowski added: “We were expecting it to be busy as usual on market day and was surprised it wasn’t , though it is Easter, plus kids are off school and there are lots of people away. We’re reserving judgement on any improvements yet!”
Richard Matthews said: “Will a faulty mechanism stop us getting run over at the sorry excuse of a zebra crossing? Waited to cross it yesterday and a driver went through oblivious to us and was too busy not looking at the road.”
James Lowman said: “I’m not queuing back to the police station anymore on my way home in the evenings, so it’s much better than that! Still more dangerous getting out of Morrisons though than the old layout.”
What do you think?
2 comments
A C Trinder
Ive heard the new road layout being described as the New Litchfield Road!!! it certainly dose not help anyone trying to get to the Walton Roundabout or the Newcastle Road. The crossing is an accident waiting to happen. the high street must be affected by this new layout as its not just harder to get to now, its more dangerous!!! well done those forward thinking people at the council, if there is an accident on that crossing hope you will be personally available to answer for it.
Mr T Rout
There are still queues in the right hand lane whilst the left hand lane is empty most times of the day. Open both lanes to traffic travelling straight on to Stafford St/Crown Street. Does Councillor Jones never drive in Stone?