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A lesson in bad road design?

01 May 2008
Birmingham's Northfield bypass
Birmingham's Northfield bypass

 

Birmingham City Council's recently opened Northfield bypass on the A38 Bristol Road encapsulates much of what the Association of British Drivers dislikes about current transport policy. "How many sets of traffic lights are on that Northfield bypass?!" asks Humphries rhetorically. "There must be about 20 - it's just ludicrous. Quite a lot of them are pedestrian only." He says the road's design should have separated pedestrians from motorised road users. "Why couldn't...

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