A RETAIL park could get a new exit to prevent "lives being put at risk". Councillors say shoppers and pedestrians currently have to dodge traffic at St Andrew's Retail Park in Hessle Road.
It has the same entrance and exit for vehicles, which also leads to traffic jams in Hessle Road as cars queue to get in.
Councillor Nadine Fudge has been speaking with the owners of the car park to encourage them to build a separate exit.
She wants to see the exit moved to near Wilkinson's, meaning cars will leave the retail park via Flinton Street, halving the number of cars going out into Hessle Road.
She said: "Keeping the exit where it is, is dangerous.
"There is one car in, one car out and it causes a bottleneck in the road.
"The priority here has got to be the safety of the people of Hessle Road.
"Trying to cross the road there is horrendous and we are worried someone will be killed before long."
In April last year, a 64-year-old woman died after she was hit by a lorry while pushing her toddler grandson in his pram across the road outside the retail park.
Traders have also backed calls for the exit to be moved, believing it will ease traffic and encourage more shoppers to use Hessle Road.
Donna Finn, chairman of the Hessle Road Traders Association and owner of Harvey's hair salon, said: "You can't get in or out of the retail park sometimes and yet there is the possibility of having a completely separate entrance and exit.
"We have got this massive build-up of traffic every day and people get frustrated by it, so they don't come down here.
"It is great the retail centre is busy, but then it is sad at the same time because it is trying so hard to do well but so many other people don't want to go there because of the traffic.
"If there was more free-flowing traffic, people would come down here."
Traders are particularly frustrated because Hull City Council was about to strike a deal with the previous owners of the car park over making a new exit, but it was sold onto another company before the deal was finalised.
It means Cllr Fudge has been forced to start again with the new owners, something that has happened three times previously.
However, she says she is "hopeful" plans will start to take shape soon.
She said: "We are hopeful it will happen this time.
"I can't tell my constituents it is definite as I don't want to give them false hope, but we are quite optimistic."
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