DISGRUNTLED drivers are rallying together to fight "dangerous" changes made to the A329M, with the launch of a new Facebook action group. 

The social media campaign - Fix the A329M - was set up in the aftermath of the new changes to the road layout to help ease congestion to and from the M4, that came into effect in January. 

People driving up and down that stretch of road have criticised the modifications which they say are unsafe and ineffective.

David Luck, from Binfield, said he started up the group as an experiment to see if other road users felt the same way as he did.

He said: "There is a general consensus that the road isn't great, in fact it's dangerous.

"It's not really the way we are supposed to drive in keeping right, people are turning round and saying it is just people being stupid but I thought let's get a group together to see if there are a few of us who think the same way.

"I can see what they have tried to achieve, the flow of traffic from the M4 to A329 is better, but now it is worse getting on to the M4 than it has ever been. 

"The group is there for all the people that are frustrated. Most people are having the same issues.

"At night you would think it is a doddle but people joining the A329M from the M4, because the road is clear they go so fast that you end up with this fast flow of traffic happening and you have to merge across the two lanes of traffic.

"People on the M4 have become the secondary traffic."

The work involved widening the slip roads from the M4 onto the A329M to allow for two lane merges and reducing the carriageways where the A329M crosses the M4 to one lane.

Road markings on the A329M now direct drivers in the left hand lane onto the M4, creating a filter road instead of a traditional slip road exit.

Mr Luck, who works in Bracknell, said though he has not yet raised the issue formally with Highways England, if enough people join the campaign he would consider putting a petition together.

"They probably have followed the correct guidelines that they have to so they just brush it off.

"If people are having the same issues they would be more likely to accept it is because of the changes and a petition is a good place to push it." 

A Highways England spokesman said: "The improvements we have made at the junction between the M4 and the A329(M) are successfully reducing queues on the M4 on approach to the junction and the safety risks they cause.

 "We are continuing to keep the effects of the changes under review as drivers get used to the new layout. 

"We have recently installed permanent signs and road markings to make the layout as clear as possible and are in regular contact with Wokingham Borough Council and the police to look at ways of further improving the junction."