YOU don’t need to be an expert to recognise the lethal nature of the A350 traffic light junction by Whitehall Garden Centre, but it’s been like it for years and there’s no specific forum for feeding back opinions like this.

After miles of single-lane carriageway in both directions drivers are presented with a short stretch of two-lane carriageway through these lights which many see as a great opportunity to overtake. They put their foot down as they approach this section and, providing everything goes to plan, they get through it but the margin for error is reduced to a fraction of a second.

Horns can be heard throughout every day as cars cut in just in time as the road return to single carriageway. Several recent incidents, two fatal, show clearly that something is very wrong. Why on earth aren’t the left-hand lanes in both directions lane designated left-turn only? Yes some vehicles will be held up for a few seconds behind slower ones, but is that such a big deal?

I periodically work in that area and virtually every time I’m waiting at the lights to join the main road from one side or the other I witness an accident waiting to happen and hope that anyone waiting in the narrow space in the middle to turn right to Lacock Village does so very carefully.

The Chippenham/Bath traffic light junction just past Asda provides a similar opportunity for Chippenham-bound traffic, with drivers invited to put their foot down away from the lights and cut back in just before the the blind left-hand bend, still within the 30mph limit. Again, horns can be heard on a regular basis.

Wiltshire Council’s highways department is planning to spend £1m of our money on “improving” the traffic flow without any consultation whatsoever, so shouldn’t we consider stopping them somehow and demanding to know more about what they plan to do for us?

Colin Goodhind, Longford Road, Melksham