TWELVE months ago, Globe reporter JUSTIN DUNN listed what he considered to be the top ten Horror Highways in Wirral.

His article provoked a massive reaction from readers who either agreed or disagreed with him.

A year on, it seems he's still got a bit of a bee in his bonnet (to say the least).

So, without further ado, here are the "traffic nightmares" that Dunn needs to get off his chest...

St James "roundabout"

The council is still telling anyone who'll listen that queuing for ages while idling at a bewildering traffic light system that at peak times successfully manages to block thoroughfares in three count em! directions, is far more efficient than the old roundabout that, well, didn't. Of course, no-one actually is listening because every single motorist who has ever used this utter catastrophe of highway engineering knows it to be just that. Arrowe Park "round-about"

Here's an idea. Why not take a picturesque floral landmark that has worked successfully for a generation and because you feel the need to "do" something - destroy it and replace it with yet another confusing eyesore that paramedics and bus drivers you know, professional road users say is a disaster? Oh, sorry the council already has. Hoylake roundabout What has this council got against roundabouts? With apologies to St Mark, it is now easier for a camel to pass through the eye of an needle than it is to drive a normal family-sized car through Market Street in Hoylake and around the roundabout near King's Gap, thanks to the draconian narrow road "promenade" look newly forced on sorry, introduced to - our golf hosts by the geniuses in our Highways Department.

Moreton roundabout An inexact crossing of roads has meant this often-criticised roundabout, whilst tricky to navigate at peak times, has managed to survive so far. That does not mean, however, that there will not be a planner or two greedily eyeing it up like a vulture that's spotted fresh carrion, just itching for the chance to make it ten times worse and all in the name of progress, naturally. Thurstaston "round-about"

Back in the hazy, lazy days of 2003, the Globe reported on how campaigners were celebrating when councillors approved a plan for a roundabout at the notoriously dangerous junction of Telegraph Road, Thurstaston Road and Station Road, next to the Cottage Loaf pub. Three years later, there is still no roundabout. We can't begin to imagine why Heron Road, Meols A painfully thin connection to West Wirral from Greasby and Upton to eventually connect with Birkenhead Road in Meols. It is constantly snarled up at peak times because of through traffic trying to get past parked cars. No problem with the residents parking outside their homes, however. Just with the normally concrete-crazed planners refusing to use the vast expanse of unused grass verge on the northern side to widen the road surface to gasp! help the traffic flow. Upton Village Our local planners seem able to conjure up a myriad of ways to exasperate and frustrate Wirral motorists faster than a Belisha beacon can blink.

But can they figure out a way of stopping parents clogging up this crossroads each and every schoolday morning to the venom-spitting dismay of local residents? Four words: No, and no again. Borough Road, Birkenhead The creation of an absolutely useless traffic-restricting bus lane that is as of much use to the local council tax-paying population at large that is, the people from round ere who actually want to get anywhere - as would be the construction of a 19-metre high concrete pigeon sat in the middle of the Pyramids Shopping Centre. Does anyone else remember when it used to be fairly easy to drive along Borough Road?

Am I just seeing things through rose-tinted glasses, or was the traffic a few years ago free-flowing and it just wasn't a problem?

Let me know, won't you?

Hamilton Square, Birkenhead: Anyone unfortunate enough to be sent to Hell in the afterlife (and yes, I'll see you there) will in fact find that they are stuck in Price Street every working morning staring at someone else's billowing exhaust pipe, while Hamilton Square is free from traffic but being enjoyed by pigeons everywhere and very nicely, thank you.

St James "roundabout" Sorry, but it's just so bad we named it twice.

WHAT do you think? Do you agree with Justin's top ten or have you a few "favourite" Horror Highways of your own?

You can post your views on our website forum at by clicking on the link below.

Or you can email Justin at jdunn@wirral-globe.co.uk And you can also write to Horrors, Wirral Globe, Haymarket Court, Hinson Street, Birkenhead, CH41 5BX.