SIR, I agree with FB Morris wholeheartedly regarding the new road markings on approach to the Greyhound roundabout.

On June 9 I left work in Woolston at 5.20pm and arrived home in Astley at 6.45pm. It is a nightmare journey I have to make five days a week, 47 weeks of the year.

Since June it usually takes me 50 minutes on my return journey and 25 minutes in a morning to get to work. In the two weeks since the arrival of the markings, two cars have ignored the standing traffic and driven on the other side of the road to the front of the queue.

On another occasion, a driver turned into the garage to drive straight out through the other exit on to the East Lancs Road. Sure-fire ingredients for someone to lose their temper when they have sat in a queue for 25 minutes.

In the six years I have been travelling from Astley to Woolston I have never seen an accident at that junction. I cannot imagine why the Council would change the road markings in this way. It is not helping traffic congestion.

Cyclists often use the pavements in certain places because the A574 is too narrow for two lanes of traffic, parked cars, plus lorries/buses trying to overtake cyclists.

It is so frustrating to face that queue every afternoon. I thought the same as FB Morris that the Council were going to use their heads and make two dedicated lanes, especially when they moved the central road markings to give more space to the left hand side.

How silly of us! That would have made life easier for thousands of daily commuters.

Sorry to moan but who will listen to little old me? It is something that is very frustrating and isn't going to go away.

Anne Ownes