COULD someone please explain how the newly installed traffic system at the Churnworks intersection in Haverfordwest is an improvement on the roundabout that was there originally?

The present arrangement means that traffic emerging from Ebenezer Row has difficulty, in the first place, in accessing the right hand lane at the traffic lights, when the lights are at red, and then in carrying out a right hand turn if they want to get back to the rest of the town.

Lorries of any size have not the room to turn right in any case, so that they must go all the way along Thomas Parry way, and then negotiate the roundabout at the end.

After all, Ebenezer Row and Swan Square provide access to the area behind the market hall, and so to trade vehicles servicing all the businesses in the Market Hall and many of those in Old Bridge Street.

I myself have taken to leaving this area via the car park, and so, I expect, have many other regular users. Did the highway engineers think of that?

Pembrokeshire seems to specialise in devising hindrances to road users.

There is also the newly designed, bus station and multi- storey car park, where you drive all the way past it to get into it, then, having parked, you drive back through it to emerge at the beginning, as do all the buses.

This creates two traffic flows along the one carriage way, where there needs to be neither.

In Narberth, the one-way traffic system ensures that a slight delay in the High Street means that traffic queues all the way down St James Street just to go up the High Street, when all most of them want to do is to get out of town. This applies even for traffic leaving Redstone Road, when a simple right turn would see them on their way. Spring Gardens is quite wide enough to support twoway traffic, and a roundabout at each end (dare I mention the word?) would complete the scheme.

Also, Picton Place was designated as one-way, but in the wrong direction.

When you emerge at the foot of the hill, you come out at the most dangerous place, when you have to pull out into the middle of the road to see traffic coming up the hill, even if you want to turn left.

I could mention the one-way system in Pembroke, where anyone living in Monkton, or points west, has to go all around the town when they could turn right up past the castle.

Is there a possibility that common sense could in the end prevail?

Tony Ward

Lawrenny