P-06-1519 Implement safety measures at the A477 Red Roses junction to reduce accidents and stop any fatalities
This petition was submitted by Victoria Mitchell, having collected 554 signatures online and 140 signatures on paper, making for a total of 694 signatures.
Text of petition:
The A477 from St Clears west into Pembrokeshire is a busy route used by local residents, holiday traffic, ferry traffic and deliveries throughout West Wales
The Red Roses junction is a 90 degree turn at the bottom of a hill with no slip road. You can take it at no more than 20mph, with trunk road traffic behind you travelling downhill at often 70mph, and no way to move off the main A477. It is frightening.
We ask the Welsh Government to make this a safe junction before lives are lost.
Additional information:
Ever
since the junction was opened in 2014 local residents have been
campaigning to have this junction improved. The signpost has been
hit many times. Vehicles have gone through crash barriers and ended
up in the nearby ditch. There have been multiple collisions
reported to the police and many many more near misses we know
about. Welsh Government’s own December 2021 monitoring stated
57% of vehicles were exceeding the speed limit.
Past and present local politicians supported our cause, but the
Welsh Government responds with such as ‘accidents rates are
below 60% of the typical rate for comparable roads’ [quote
from Minister’s letter July 2019].
We consider that the junction needs good lighting – it has no
lighting at all currently - and proper speed reduction measures at
the junction approach. Really it also needs a slip road so that
vehicles can reduce speed safely off the main carriageway.
Please support our petition to improve the safety of this stretch
of road.
Senedd Constituency and Region