I have talked to many people in Southend about the new layout of Victoria Circus.

So far, everybody hates it and thinks it’s a disaster, an accident waiting to happen.

We are constantly told the council is short of funds, but that didn’t seem to prevent this monstrosity.

Southend Council not only removed a roundabout which was working extremely well, but created a bottleneck, with mistimed lights and pedestrian crossings in the wrong places, resulting in restricted and confusing movement of people and cars.

Those leaving the library, the courts or the Civic Centre now cannot turn around (to go north) without driving to the Southchurch or the London Road roundabouts, going through yet more lights and another roundabout.

Fred Nicholson
Southbourne Grove
Westcliff