Is new system one way of reducing traffic levels in busy residential roads?

A rapidly increasing population combined with growing numbers of workers, shoppers and visitors to the town means Biggleswade’s roads are under more pressure than ever before.

Shortmead Street – one of Biggleswade’s busiest roads and the one that links the town with the A1 – bears the brunt of much of this traffic.

There is a knock-on effect in surrounding roads, including in nearby Sun Street and St John’s Street where it has been suggested a one-way system might help.

But is this the solution to the problems that drivers experience when using the two roads?

Motorists frequently complain about impossibly long waits at the junction of Shortmead Street and Sun Street, a problem which should be solved when the new roundabout is installed at the junction.

But what about St John’s Street and Sun Street?

Road users seem very much divided.

Some are sure that implementing such a system would help to slow down traffic and even reduce it.

Others claim that all one-way systems do is actually increase speeding.