SO, the long suffered for and much vaunted gyratory is now finished, I think, isn’t it?

I’m not altogether sure. The red and white boxes, the temporary lights, the road closure signs, the contractors and their machinery have all disappeared.

Yet, we seem to be left with something that doesn’t have a finished feel to it.

Not only that, I’m really concerned that, even after the extremely long trial period, it’s not been adequately designed for modern traffic.

The corners are ludicrously tight, a fact borne out by the several demolitions of the traffic lights at the junction of Chesterway and Castle Street and the crushing of the railings, presumably during one of the incidents.

Then we have the madness of the chicane at the Bull Ring where traffic coming over Town Bridge is treated to an ‘S’ bend worthy of a mountain pass. Why? Is this some attempt at slowing traffic?

Well there are speed limits to enforce that.

Why force a multitude of different-sized vehicles, cars, vans, bicycles and vast HGVs into this blender of potential disaster?

Don’t misunderstand me, the traffic flows well. Is it better than before? Possibly.

However, these are brand new roads, built at great expense on a reasonably blank canvas, yet the practicalities seem not to have been thought through.

Railings flattened, traffic lights knocked over and the very real possibility of a serious accident at the Bull Ring! Is CWAC going to carry out remedial work to remedy these sloppy errors of design?

These are, of course, hypothetical questions.

One thing is certain, though — as tax payers it will be us who pay for this poor design in repair bills and redesigns.

Beryl Jones Northwich