WCC are implementing a new one way system along Avon Street. Preventing traffic turning right out of Brick Kiln Street.

 This means all cars and delivery vehicles must now exit this residential area via Albert Road or Queens Road. Both these roads are already heavily congested. At peak times cars can not leave to enter the High Street due to congestion and in turn block the entry of traffic leading to grid lock. Houses in Albert Road and Queens Road are regularly trapped by tailbacks. 

To compound matters , both Albert Road and Queens Road have 7.5t limits. This will force all such vehicles over Black Bridges which is also congested. It’s a major walking route to Tesco and the Retail Park and has no pavement.

Every vehicle will either have to travel along the very narrow residential street of Briar Close, or contend with the tight bend at the junction of Bewdley Lane and Albert Road. This area is already nearly impossible to navigate at busy times.

Instead of a 30m trip to the High Street from Brick Kiln Street , all traffic will have to take up to nearly a mile detour via Littleworth Street or Briar Close. These are both narrow residential streets with very little distance to the road. The pollution levels are already high in the area and these will be worsened.

This plan is ill conceived and will not work. It will be detrimental to every resident of the area.

This scheme must be scrapped with immediate effect.