TRY DRIVING THE A453 DAILY
In reply to R. Johnson (Local News – April), I drive the Skylink bus to the airport five days a week on 10-hour shifts.
I live in Clifton and I think widening A453 would relieve a lot of the congestion and also cut down on accidents. These accidents happen on a regular basis due to drivers overtaking at the wrong time or in the wrong place.
If the authorities take out the three pedestrian crossings between Fabis Drive and Crusader Island and replace with bridges, it will make it safer for pedestrians and keeps the traffic moving.
Obviously R. Johnson does not drive, or if he does then it’s not very often. As for Clifton people suffering, what does R. Johnson think we are doing now?
Come spend a day or a week with me and I am sure you would change your mind and if there was a bit more courtesy between drivers it would improve traffic flow no end.
M. Lamb
Clifton
I cannot believe the letter I read from a writer called R. Johnson in the latest edition of your paper (Local News – April). Why oh why would they not want the A453 widened? It is a menace to Clifton, I should know I drive it everyday and am sick of traffic jam after traffic jam.
S. Robinson
I have just read issue 90 Clifton – I can’t believe that people like Ron and J.Eaton (letters) honestly believe what they write. Are they in a different world to me and the thousands of motorists who queue gridlocked through Clifton every day. Ron with two lanes flowing into Nottingham and I am sure there would be improved exit made at the M1 end – it can not help but improve things. J.Eaton a lot of traffic have to use the A453 because they then want to go east. There is a hell of a lot of traffic use it now and I am sure that would not increase substantially and if it did the road would cope better than it does now. Pity the sunken road wasn’t done years ago – it works well – travel into Stoke on the A50 and see. Let’s do the A453 and abandon the damn tram.
John Summerton
DUAL-CARRIAGEWAY MISERY
Recent letters in this paper have left me shaking my head. They think it’s easy to solve a problem by widening a road. Making the A453 a dual-carriageway will only increase the problem of traffic.
Think of it logically – people avoid the A453 now as it is a nightmare and admittedly a poor gateway to the south of Nottingham. Many use the A46 to get on the M1 at Leicester Forest services.
By dualling the A453 you will only encourage motorists to use this stretch of road. Increased capacity will just end up with increased motorists.
So instead of one lane (either way) of snarled-up traffic, we will end up with a dual-carriageway of snarled-up traffic and all at a cost of millions of pounds.
J. Eaton
JOURNEY TIMES WON’T CHANGE
M. Lamb and S. Robinson (Local News – May are wrong about the A453. Just because you sit in a queue on a road or experience slow moving traffic on a road does not mean the road is at fault.
The problem with the A453 is the capacity at either end of the road. If you make it twice as wide you’ll make the queue shorter in distance, but because it will still contain the same number of cars (but over two lanes) it won’t make any difference to journey times.
Ron