Am I the only glad as a motorist to see these new lights....... when I leave the Greyfriars area at 4pm on school days - and head towards the A449 - no more taxi drivers cutting me up, although they still dont recognise that RED (the one at the top m8) means STOP not oh bugga it and head straight across, stops the I have one life and I dont care how it ends brigade 'diving' out of the Lammascote Road.
As quoted by a couple of old DJ's - Simon Bates and Mike Read late of Radio1 and Radio 2. Stafford is (was then) the only place they both knew that had traffic lights on an island (A449- A34) People Stafford was the trendsetter back in the 70's.
The rest of the country's planners - followed those traffic light yuppies of Riverway! The M25 bears the proof.
Now if any traffic planning moguls are reading this - how about a nice yellow box between the cross over of Lichfield Road lights to the Newport Road - am buddy sick of having to drive around the bone heads who cross on amber and cause we folk who want to venture the A449 to traverse a chicane of cars who got 'stuck'
While you're at it ...... yellow box Tescos' before another near mishap happens.
AND if the urge to lay sleeping policeman gets ahold of you - this time can you please lay a few along John Amery Drive - and turn the stupid right of ways back to JAD not Hesketh Road and Churchill Way, and lay one fat sod on the bend in Burton Bank Lane instead of a painting the word SLOW - anyone coming from JAD hitting the 25mph mark ends up on the wrong side of the bend unless they know the road very well.
ACTUALLY what would be nice - a 20mph limit from turning off A449 into JAD followed right throught to the Burton Bank Lane junction with A449 ....... one can but hope
MAYBE our erstwhile Manor ward councillors can use the idea ready for the next photo shoot for the Newsletter or local elections, beats using things they did eons ago!