The consultation over improvements to the notorious Haudagain junction (where three trunk roads and the main north route into Aberdeen city centre converge) is to be postponed in the light of the Scottish Executive Reporters' recommendation that plans for a third bridge over the Don be shelved. Many will be hoping that this will let the authorities propose a more complete solution.
Three potential options were to have gone on public view this month:

1. creation of a new signal-controlled link road connecting North Anderson Drive and Auchmill Road to provide a new route for traffic; the existing roundabout would be retained;
2. creation of a new link road, as above; alteration of the existing roundabout to form a signalised junction; realignment of the Mugiemoss Road railway bridge; upgrading Mugiemoss Road to a dual carriageway between Haudagain and the Persley Bridge/Mugiemoss Road roundabout;
3. creation of an enlarged Haudagain roundabout slightly west of the existing; build a new Mugiemoss Road railway bridge; realign and dual Mugiemoss Road from Haudagain to the Persley Bridge/Mugiemoss Road roundabout; no North Anderson Drive/Auchmill Road link road.

Car pool lanes (or 2+ lanes in this country) like this one in Los Angeles speeds traffic across all lanes and provides a real incentive for car sharing

Many will be hoping that this delay will give the authorities the chance to propose a real solution to the Haudagain problem.
It is hard to imagine that the link road through Middlefield has anything to do improving traffic flow (how can adding two junctions and traffic lights improve congestion?), which suggests that the first two options are designed to service other agendas:

1. Regeneration of Middlefield? (Although it is hard to imagine how putting a busy road through a community will actually help it to regenerate!)
2. Planning gain funding? This seems the most likely in that the plot of land between the new link road and the existing main roads could perhaps be of interest to commercial, or retail developers. A supermarket perhaps?

Frankly, this junction is far to important to Aberdeen to be considered in the light of any agenda other than to produce a major improvement in traffic flow.

This is the first junction that international visitors to our city will encounter. It makes a statement about how competitive we want Aberdeen to be as a business location. Anything other than a proper flyover suggests we are not serious about getting our transport problems sorted out.

With the potential addition of traffic to and from the city and the Trump International Golf Links, we again need to plan ahead.

Come on Scottish Government and Aberdeen City Council, let's get this sorted. We need a flyover with two free-flowing lanes on the A90/A96 routes, on the A90 (north) and A90 (south) routes and from the A96 to Great Northern Road.

• While you are at it the bus lane on Great Northern Road needs to be either an additional lane (that is opening up two lanes to traffic as before) or, at the very least, a 2+ lane that accepts any vehicle with two or more people. Keeping a whole lane of precious road space for around half a dozen vehicles every hour is simply ridiculous. The congestion costs time, money, wastes fuel and increases localised pollution for little or no benefit.