It was billed as a £10 million solution for Leicester’s most confusing junction. But now that the work is complete, people in the area are angry and disappointed.
LeicestershireLive went to speak to people in the area after Leicester City Council announced the completion of work to overhaul the complex Fiveways junction, which connects Blackbird Road, Woodgate, Fosse Road North, Groby Road and Buckminster Road and has been dubbed the most confusing in the city, to find out what impact the changes had had.
People who spoke to us said there were now more accidents and more sounding of horns, and that the change has been bad for local businesses. Andrew Holmes, 66, who was shopping in the area yesterday (Monday): “It’s chaos. It’s just mad.
“There are these great massive cycle lanes no one bloomin’ uses. I live in Basset Street and I can’t turn right off Woodgate onto Blackbird Road anymore, so I have to go the long way round through the residential area – and it’s harder still getting back home because I can’t turn left off Blackbird Road onto Woodgate, either.”
Viv James, who works at Booze Stop on the junction, said: “I think the council has ****** this up. We’ve got a wide bike lane right outside so people can’t pull up outside the shop.
Lorry driver Adrian Prinvas, 56, who was shopping in the area and lives just off Fosse Road North, said: “I’m not very happy about not being able to turn left off Blackbird into the city anymore. And then if you come in the opposite direction – from Fosse Road North – wanting to go into the city you have to go into the queue after the bus lane ends.
“But if the queue is full you’re not meant to go into the bus lane – you’re meant to hold everyone up behind you instead, which is stupid. I just turn into the bus lane – I hope they never put bus lane cameras in.
Kim Stanton, 39, who regularly walks past the junction, said: “I think it’s worse. I don’t drive but when I’m at the bus stop watching everyone driving it seems like no one knows which lane to be in and it’s just going to cause accidents.
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