ONE BRIGG DRIVER'S VIEW

The difficulty that drivers have exiting the Water's Edge housing estate to turn right onto the A18, just a few yards from the Brigg boundary, makes us wonder whether it might be better if they turned left, went to the roundabout at the top of Atherton Way and came back along Bridge Street towards Scawby Brook. It might prove quicker as well as safer to do so at times of peak traffic.
Some right-turn drivers we've seen just decide to "go for it" and exit the housing estate road, forcing oncoming motorists heading towards Brigg to give way to them. Whether or not they are feeling inclined to do so.
The same applies to drivers waiting to leave Island Carr, Mill Lane, the petrol station and the section of Bridge Street from the Yarborough Hunt to the County Bridge.
On the A18 in Brigg there are issues with drivers approaching the Monument roundabout  from Bigby Street but failing to indicate they are going to turn immediately left towards Barnard Avenue. This can be frustrating for other drivers using the roundabout, especially those waiting near the Britannia Inn to head off on the A1084 Bigby Road.
Some lorry and van drivers seem to think their job gives them a right to ignore the rules of the road and park as close as possible to their delivery destination. We saw one lorry recently in Brigg which was on yellow lines, half up the kerb. If he, or she, had got any closer to the point of delivery they would have been inside! OK, there wasn't much traffic about but that's hardly the point.
Down at Scawby Brook's Fountain Corner, the mini-roundabout's two problems continue.

• The relatively few drivers who use this turning circle to do a complete U-turn to head back to Brigg leave other motorists approaching from Castlethorpe Corner with no chanceof working out what manouvre is taking place. This is an issue with all mini-roundabouts and there is no solution.
•  Big lorries - and they don't come bigger than the truck-towing-trailer types now taking straw to the new biomass power plant at Scawby Brook - have no chance of negotiating the turning circle. They have to go OVER it. Next time we are down there we'll inspect the concrete bit in the middle to see how it's holding up to the pounding.  

The biggest problem with the A18 is there are so many vehicles using it, and so many exit/entry points, including Old Courts Road, Wesley Road, Cary Lane, Grammar School Road and Ash Grove, that it's impossible to control the flow without many drivers being held up. Perhaps the best the highway authority can hope to do is please most of the drivers some of the time, or some of the drivers most of the time. You do the maths!