On 20 August a consultation group of local residents and business owners met with council officers to discuss a £550,000 scheme to reduce accidents at the Seven Dials roundabout. At present about 26,000 vehicles pass through this junction on a typical day and short of waving a magic wand which would make most of these vehicles disappear completely, there seems to be no solution to reducing this traffic, and, therefore, the number of accidents, other than to divert the traffic onto neighbouring roads, or to hope that, by narrowing access and creating more congestion, commuters, in particular, will immediately take to public transport, cycling or walking.
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