I AGREE with the comments made in The Journal regarding the roundabout at Twist Lane.

It is a death trap and it is only a matter of time before someone is seriously injured. In the evening the rush hour, I approach the roundabout from the East Lancs Road. There are three lanes marked out with the inside lane arrowed to turn left, the middle lane is arrowed straight on and the outside lane has no marking at all!

There is just no way three lanes of traffic can enter the roundabout together, the lanes around the roundabout are not wide enough. There is also a preponderance of 'smart Alecs' coming down the outside lane and going straight on, in the process cutting everyone else up.

If you manage to get on to the roundabout, people lurch out from Twist Lane and turn immediately into Sainsbury's slip road, usually forcing you to brake. Surely there should have been a slip road from Twist Lane directly into Sainsbury's.

Then to compound matters there is a pelican crossing on the exit which, when on red, causes total grid-lock on the roundabout.

All in all the roundabout is a total disaster. It wants ripping out and a total re-design, which should include a pedestrian underpass for the safety of everyone.

Again it is a cheapskate job foisted on Leigh by "Big Wigan'. Yes, it may have been constructed to national standards, but these are usually the minimum requirements and I expect this is what we have been given - a complete joke of a roundabout.

So before anyone gets killed let's put pressure on 'Big Wigan' for a total re-design.

This is not the first time I have had to correspond with 'Big Wigan' regarding dangerous junctions. I wrote several letters regarding the junction of Kirkhall Lane/Leigh Road/Ratcliffe Street at which I was involved in a serious accident in which my car was a write off. I got nowhere with my correspondence, the last word being they were carrying out a safety survey in the area!

So don't hold your breath for any action. Apart from putting down an anti skid surface (which has made matters worse by obscuring the road markings) nothing has been done to address the fundamental safety problems of this junction, so I hold no hope of any improvement in the aforesaid roundabout.

Stuart Pinder

I Eng. MIEEIE

Hendon Street

Leigh

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