Ultimately I think your point in the second paragraph is correct. Whatever happens will see people annoyed, disappointed or let down. There is no solution that will please everybody, so it comes down to trying to please the most, or at least, displease the fewest!

Perhaps it would be better to make some of the roads one way and therefore no entry from the northside – every other road perhaps. But this will still really annoy people.

We have never found it significantly held up the traffic when people could turn right at those roads!

The council has been enforcing the no right turns and plenty of people have been fined as a result of taking the banned turn. Several of those who have complained to me about the restrictions had been caught, and I know a few people personally who received their fine a couple of days after thinking they’d got away with it. I think we can say we have had a real test of its worth.

If I recollect accurately one-way roads were considered. One-way systems in this type of road have two drawbacks, one is where the traffic goes (a problem that still exists with the no-right turn) and an increase in the speed of traffic on the new one-way roads, which I think was seen as an unacceptable consequence on residential streets.