Making traffic diversion safe

In diverting traffic at a perpendicular junction especially where there is continuous traffic flow, I respectfully suggest that the police place a bold sign facing the minor road directing traffic exiting therefrom.

Failure to do so and placing only a thin physical barrier parallel to and continuous with the direction of the minor road curb serves to warn traffic only along the major road of the diversion. It is obvious that drivers exiting from the minor road may well only see this barrier when they have turned toward it and may well even collide with it.

Additionally, in such situations temporary directional signage should be placed at strategic points several metres from the junction to warn drivers along both the major and minor roads of the approaching diversion.

Steve Smith via email