The roundabout was a nuisance and took ages to cross as a pedestrian
I fear saying I like the new Maid Marian Way junction will give me an indication of how it feels to stand as a defence lawyer for a hardened criminal. I feel pre-emptively like I have been shoved - or have shoved myself - onto a stage, and a spotlight has been thrust upon me.
Traditionalists would argue for anything to stay the same, whether it's a monumental, centuries-old building or an outdated, impractical hindrance. But it's like new housing estates which locals say they don't want on their doorstep - when even their house was new at one point. Queueing behind temporary traffic lights which turn green only for another set to turn red 10 metres down the road has been annoying when you're only trying to get to the other side of the city centre. There have been a few occasions where it has taken me a good 20 minutes to get from Castle Boulevard to Forest Recreation Ground.
The drivers of the cars waiting to come from Upper Parliament Street in the lane next to me on turning sat patiently for their turn. Or maybe they grimaced - I couldn't see behind the darkness of their windscreens - but I could go, from Maid Marian Way, straight onto the aforementioned road, like a knife through butter.
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