How to get local council to listen about dangerous road design?

So, this article sums up my commute experience with this road design monstrosity:

http://www.crawleyobserver.co.uk/news/local/call-for-death-trap-crawley-...

Here is the Google Streetview link:

http://tinyurl.com/os8ufvy

Before I found that article, I had already emailed the council to ask them to extend their replacement of other chicanes up the road to these particularly dangerous things.

The response is much the same - not interested, and accident stats supposedly make it not a priority. This is despite their own accident stats map showing at least as many accidents as the chicanes they are replacing with humps (which incidentally had relatively safe cycle bypasses!)

Anyone got any suggestions for how to get them to listen? I'm asking cycling friends who live in the area to email the local councillor and highways department too, but not sure it's going to get any where.

The thought of painting "death zone" or skull-and-cross-bones in the cycle lanes occurred to me, but suspect that would get me into trouble!

I really don't want to die early on this stretch of road - it'd be so unecessary...

FWIW I don't use the cycle lanes, as this eliminates the overtake-and-cut-up danger, but you still face a totally unecessary head on conflict with drivers who fail to give way, and you also seem to get more "punishment passes" afterwards this way for preventing people overtaking when it wasn't safe to