Alterations at York A1079 road junction (From York Press)

Cars have been using this sliproad for years.

It makes you wonder council workers ever travel on the roads that they make decisions on.

Making the lights turn red more often is hardly going to help queues of traffic - queues that are *around* the P&R site, not *at* it. I've never considered it difficult to gain access to the site, especially as most of the public traffic will be coming from the A64 side.

Even a small amount of time spent at the location would show that the main issues around there are the closely placed sets of lights that prevent traffic flow, and the problem of cars cutting across lanes in both the east and west bound directions.

One easy measure to stop queues would be to fix the lights inline with B&Q. When travelling into York, you're often brought to a halt because the lights turn to red unnecessarily.

This is usually caused by the lane that is effectively a U-turn on the other carriageway that triggers even when no traffic is present.

The junction at B&Q would be far better if the lights were ripped out and replaced by a roundabout. The flows at that junction are terrible – the amount of time that is wasted with only one stream of traffic on the junction (and often no vehicles moving) is appalling, and it's no wonder that there's bad congestion there.

Not helped by the very uneven lane usage heading out of York, with about 90% of traffic needing the right-hand lane (for A1079 and A64 towards Leeds), but only about 70% of traffic using that lane with the remained barrelling up the left and then barging across at the last minute.

If only they would look at the congestion on the road from the 1079 to Heslington...since the narrowing of the road and the introduction of traffic lights(for no real reason) the traffic is horrendous!

Field Lane's reduction to one lane is utterly utterly stupid, there is quite simply no excuse or possible reason for it. It is a simple crossroads therefore you should be able to have two opposite traffic sets on green - the council came along and reduced the road to one vehicle width and so now each set of traffic can only go one at a time... completely bonkers, causing needless congestion and unnecessary pollution. (and also if heading into windmill lane on a bike, there is no access to the shared pavement (cycle lane and footway) without contravening the red light - did an actual traffic officer design this junction or was it the work experience boy??

Grimston Bar junction has too much congestiong because of it being a staggered crossroads (just like Clifton green, Bootham Bar and Walmgate Bar - all the traffic bottlenecks)... if the exit from P&R site was re-aligned to be opposite the Osbaldwick link road then you could have two sets of traffic on green at any given time, there'd also be no need for the U-turn phase.
If somebody was willing to throw some cash at it, with the road being quite wide you could get a tunnel portal in there and have a tunnel going from outbound A1079 straight to westbound A64. The roundabout has failed as a traffic control device, which is why traffic lights are on it (fitting traffic lights to roundabouts tells the world that the roundabout on its own is useless) and having a tunnel for the primary traffic flow is the only possible solution I can see.