Well, thanks to some immense traffic caused by an accident around West Bromwich today, our journey home took in a Black Country tour and a delightful journey across the new Arboretum junction in Walsall.
For those of you that aren’t familiar with it, here’s a Google Maps photo of the area in the early stages of construction of the new fuck up junction. It’s a fairly conventional junction that used to get badly blocked due to the road to the left being narrow, and indeed a good section of the town’s ring road being, well…. shit.
It’s been replaced with what can only be described as one of the worst, confusing, badly signed and ill-conceived junctions it has been my displeasure to drive over- and I was prepared for it and knew where I was going.
it seems it’s no better for pedestrians either.
There’s other bits that are crap and confusing too. Is it compulsory to cock up the roads in Walsall?
The comments are amusing on the Express & Star site, presumably more so if you’re not one of the suckers who has paid for it. I rather like this one.
Let’s all go to Lichfield instead. 2 miles further than Walsall town centre, easy to get round and park, (slightly) less chav population and all the same shops.
The thing is, that is what *will* happen. Lets face it: a lot of today’s travel is by car, and as the alternatives are slowly made worse, it will continue to be: Despite this, Walsall MBC wage war on the motorist by making life hard.
Wolverhampton Council is as bad. They have changed all the priorities around West Park so you can’t drive around it like an oval anymore.
Muppets all of them.