Drivers and cyclists have been giving their views about plans to redesign the Worcester Street junction in Oxford.
Work will start from week on a redesign, in a bid to make the junction safer for cyclists and pedestrians.
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The current 'crossroad' design, introduced six years ago to tie in with changes in Frideswide Square, is being abandoned and two separate streams of traffic are being created.
Curtis E Bear told oxfordmail.co.uk: "Thank god, that junction is absolutely terrible. It looks like they will be putting it back to basically how it was before they screwed it up."
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OxonBird, a cyclist, said: "The works do nothing to fix the clash between cyclists and vehicles on Hythe Bridge Street, or Worcester Street though - because parts of those roads are just physically too narrow for vehicles and bikes to exist in the same space safely. You can't fit a quart into a pint pot.
"Car drivers and cyclists are still going to clash, drivers are still going to park in the cycle boxes and there is still going to be daily road rage between the two types of commuters.
"In the past few years I have had two experiences of almost being crushed on a bike where a vehicle has overtaken me, then moved in closer as the road narrowed. I actually had to pull my bike onto the pavement just before a tourist coach crushed me on Hythe Bridge Street a year or two ago, and very recently a guy in an Audi aggressively half-overtook me on Worcester Street, then moved in to the kerb, with his car's wingmirror just inches from my elbow as I rode.
"This junction redesign will do nothing to address these other serious problems with the two roads, unfortunately.
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"I did wonder if making Hythe Bridge Street and Park End Street one way (HB St Eastwards, PE Street Westwards flowing), and having a rotary one-way system might have been safer for everyone - then putting a wide cycle lane all the way down Hythe Bridge Street and also widening the path on the left for pedestrians and tourists going to and from the station... But I'm sure that would be too green-thinking and pro pedestrian and cyclist to be palatable for the council."
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Harry-caria wrote: "I hope they give pedestrians more of a chance at that junction. The green light comes on for a few seconds every few minutes. Must be a nightmare if you are in any way disabled. The new layout looks better and hopefully safer."
Cycling campaign group Cyclox has welcomed the changes.
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