Road users have had their say on the most dangerous junctions in the city.
Being a driver in Brighton and Hove can be very frustrating and people have taken to The Argus Facebook page to share their plight on some of the city’s roads.
Asked about what the most dangerous junctions are, many locals named Vogue Gyratory, the meeting point of Lewes Road, Upper Lewes Road, Hollingdean Road and Bear Road.
The notorious junction has troubled motorists since the road system was completed in 1984, so much so that it even makes it into Rose Collis’s 2010 book The New Encyclopaedia Of Brighton.
In it, Ms Collis describes the gyratory as “a fiendish maze of one-way systems, roundabouts and crossings" and "a fairly brutal place, especially if you're a pedestrian".
Gill Ditch said it was the most dangerous junction in the area. “I have given up going to Sainsbury’s and the shops in Lewes Road,” she said.
“It is awful all round there.”
Another popular suggestion was the junction of Ditchling Road joining Coldean Lane.
Mark Murphy, from Brighton, said he thinks it is the worst junction in the city and dozens agreed with him.
“It needs to be left turn only,” he added.
In the city centre, a few busy junctions gained lots of votes.
The “horror” junction between Church Street and Spring Gardens, where a series of bike crashes have happened this year, was mentioned. While the road there is one way, bikes come in both directions.
Drivers using Queen’s Road southbound to turn left into North Road said the junction is “very dangerous”.
Mark Scott added: “Pedestrians are just itching to cross.”
Kevin Hunt added that the Clock Tower junction between West Street and North Street is unsafe.
“Pedestrians have to wait too long and just decide to walk across,” he said.
Nicky Goddard, who has lived in Whitehawk for 22 years, said “the whole of Whitehawk Road” is dangerous.
She said: “It’s like a speed track. I have seen it all here. There are blind spots everywhere on this road.”
Honorary mentions go to Fox Way and Foredown in Portslade, Fiveways, Elm Grove and Lewes Road, Dyke Road next to St Nicholas Church and Highcroft Villas with Dyke Road Drive.
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