Brigg Blog had already spotted and posted about the welcome addition of the red box installed by the highway authority at this junction.
The markings are there to deter people from turning right at the exit from Tesco and Riverside Surgery.
But you can't legislate for errant drivers who decline to comply with what seem to us to be very clear instructions not to head right at this point.
Motorists leaving Tesco, or the surgery, who want to head off towards Wrawby or Caistor must go left at this junction and use the roundabout on Ancholme Way as a turning circle before heading back along Barnard Avenue towards the Monument.
Brigg Blog's observations over recent weeks suggest that the red markings are definitely assisting road safety along the very busy A18.
it's a simple solution and a very effective one.
So credit must go to the officer, or officers, at North Lincolnshire Council who suggested it.
Nice one!
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| A car heading off along the entry road to the Tesco store in Brigg, having left the A18, with Riverside Surgery's car park seen in the distance, together with the roundabout mentioned in our story. |
Good effort....but a better solution would be to have a separate exit from the store.
ReplyDeleteThis would improve the congestion at the single, present egress junction; an area that gives access also to Riverside Surgery and which is at a point that restricts and endangers pedestrians attempting to cross the junction.
NLC's legitimacy for demanding a separate exit (via Spring Way) is that Brigg Tesco was built as a small Tesco store.....thus, it's entrance/exit was approved on the assumption of correlated traffic volume.
ReplyDeleteWithin months Brigg Tesco, has become one of the busiest small stores.
...thetegore traffic volume has increased proportionately and there is a need review the store's egress points.
The present combined entrsncd/exit..pedestrian crossing point is an accident waiting to happen..
NLC's legitimacy for demanding a separate exit (via Spring Way) is that Brigg Tesco was built as a small Tesco store.....thus, it's entrance/exit was approved on the assumption of correlated traffic volume.
ReplyDeleteWithin months Brigg Tesco, has become one of the busiest small stores.
...thetegore traffic volume has increased proportionately and there is a need review the store's egress points.
The present combined entrsncd/exit..pedestrian crossing point is an accident waiting to happen..