Chris Goodman

Hampshire UK

Advisor

A greater cause of traffic mayhem is the exceptionally poor road design in this country. We are still designing and building roads at what appears 1935 standards for 1935 traffic flow. The plea of cost is always the excuse for building the cheapest road systems possible, even though immediate bottlenecks appear and expensive improvements are soon required. Our road planners are working to academic standards imposed on them when they were trained in college or uni rather than common sense application of user needs. Roundabouts are usually built where traffic congestion is bad, but it is rare to see effective left filters to ease the congestion. Or how many centre lanes are built to allow right turning traffic to wait without causing massive tailbacks.
Planners are almost invariably the cause for failing to plan design and construction for the public needs.