I WELL remember Hazel Bleay’s campaigning for traffic lights to replace the Headley Way mini-roundabouts back in 2005 (Letters, August 27, 2015).

Like Mrs Bleay, I am puzzled as to why Cllr Mick Haines has concerns about this plan.

Traffic lights would provide several possible benefits for people in Marston and more widely. By regulating traffic flow more effectively, they would prevent the back-up of traffic along both Marston Road and Cherwell Drive in the evening, as they are forced to wait for heavy volumes of traffic from the John Radcliffe Hospital to turn right into Marsh Lane. Keeping traffic moving will reduce congestion and pollution for people living in Marston.

I also believe that traffic lights will make the junction much safer for all road users.

There have been a number of accidents there over the years, as Mrs Bleay mentions.

One of the problems is that people travelling from the Cherwell Drive direction up to Headley Way frequently think that they have right of way.

In doing so, they ignore the fact that they have to give way to traffic on the right entering the junction from Marston Road and turning into Headley Way.

There have been a number of accidents and near-misses for this reason.

The Access to Headington proposals are deeply flawed, but this is one proposal which promises improvements and deserves our support.

Mary Clarkson (Cllr)
Marston Ward
Oxford City Council