Flash flooding last night on our new £10.4million Fiveways junction here in Leicester.
The road became totally impassable during the rain around 9pm on the Fosse Road North junction.
Motorists and nearby residents contacted our news room to complain.
One resident said “It’s totally impassable and cars are reversing and turning back.
Someone is accountable for the bad drainage and this will only get worst when the new school is complete.
The old layout always flooded and I would have thought the design would have better drainage.
Apart from the flooding, accidents happen nearly every day because of the new layout and poor signage and for the cycle lanes that are hardly used and endanger pedestrians when trying to navigate their way around”.
What do you think ?
As a cyclist, I would say the cycle lanes are okay. The fact that Fosse Road North and Blackbird Road do not align with each other is why this has been such a chaotic junction for as long as I can remember (and I am a pensioner). The recent flooding is obviously embarrassing, given the recent 'improvements' at Five Ways, but I was in the West Midlands yesterday and there was flooding on major roads there as well. I can't remember the flowerbeds in my garden being so squelchy.