Stafford Traffic.

Gramaisc

Gramaisc

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pop80_uk said:
Is all of Sandon road shut / road closed or just the flooded bit? Just need to pop to to the tip tomorrow and wondered if I could come down pas oxford gardens and turn off onto Astonfields, cheers :)
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I have not circumnavigated the lake, but I would imagine that, if approaching from the town, you might be able to proceed as far as Peel Terrace, and then Common Road from there - or attempt the single-lane 'system' that is Oxford Gardens and then turn on Sandon Road via Henry Street, then Astonfields Road.

Approaching from Beaconside ought to be OK.

All this is subject to alteration by reality.
 
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airbusA346

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pop80_uk said:
Is all of Sandon road shut / road closed or just the flooded bit? Just need to pop to to the tip tomorrow and wondered if I could come down pas oxford gardens and turn off onto Astonfields, cheers :)
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I'm not sure if the emergency road closure notice is still in place, but if it is it is between Astonfield Road and Victoria Terrace.
 
kyoto49

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gilesjuk said:
And full time traffic lights too. So that even at 3am you have to wait.
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This is infuriating and unnecessary. How hard can it be to have traffic lights that detect cars and stay green when no one is coming from the other direction. I drive to work at 6am and there are approx 5 sets of light in Stafford I have to navigate. The number of times I have to stop at red lights to sit and wait while no one comes the other way is maddening. It feels like a Stafford thing to have antiquated lights like ths
 
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kyoto49 said:
This is infuriating and unnecessary. How hard can it be to have traffic lights that detect cars and stay green when no one is coming from the other direction. I drive to work at 6am and there are approx 5 sets of light in Stafford I have to navigate. The number of times I have to stop at red lights to sit and wait while no one comes the other way is maddening. It feels like a Stafford thing to have antiquated lights like ths
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Where I am, there are two sets at slightly obscured T-junctions, either side of the bridge at the railway station. They've been there about ten years now and sit with all six at 'red', until they spot someone approaching, then the go 'green' as appropriate. I'll have been through them at least a hundred times and have only been stopped once, when someone else legitimately triggered them before me. They even work just as reliably when approached by a lone cyclist.

I once confused a bloke at the Prospect Road lights by stopping when they were green, just out of habit, as they 'always' are - for the following year, I was stopped on every passage through there...

Any hope of Stafford's finest traffic "engineers" doing anything as complicated as making something simple actually work is going to be a forlorn expectation.

It took twenty years for the filter light at Sandon Road/Beaconside to be connected properly.
 
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gilesjuk

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kyoto49 said:
This is infuriating and unnecessary. How hard can it be to have traffic lights that detect cars and stay green when no one is coming from the other direction. I drive to work at 6am and there are approx 5 sets of light in Stafford I have to navigate. The number of times I have to stop at red lights to sit and wait while no one comes the other way is maddening. It feels like a Stafford thing to have antiquated lights like ths
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Not difficult at all and there's already ferric detection sensors in the road for traffic lights. Sometimes the traffic lights are actually programmed to turn to red if they detect that someone is over the speed limit (there's two sets of sensors in the road and they clearly check the time difference between the two to calculate speed).

Also, some traffic lights are known to stay green until they detect someone in the right turn lane. When you have a carbon fibre road bike they often don't trigger and I've seen people laying their bike down to hopefully trigger the sensor (there will be some steel in the bearings).
 
proactive

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Enjoying a drop of red.
gilesjuk said:
Not difficult at all and there's already ferric detection sensors in the road for traffic lights. Sometimes the traffic lights are actually programmed to turn to red if they detect that someone is over the speed limit (there's two sets of sensors in the road and they clearly check the time difference between the two to calculate speed).

Also, some traffic lights are known to stay green until they detect someone in the right turn lane. When you have a carbon fibre road bike they often don't trigger and I've seen people laying their bike down to hopefully trigger the sensor (there will be some steel in the bearings).
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WTF!
 
joshua

joshua

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🚧
IMPORTANT BEACONSIDE RD UPDATE
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I’m pleased to be able to inform residents an important update regarding Taylor Wimpy and the A513 Beaconside Rd.
Some residents will be aware that I have been working in the background with Taylor Wimpy, AMEY and The Cabinet Member for Highways at SCC and County Councillor Jeremy Pert, to address this repeatedly delayed works on Beaconside.
Unfortunately I have been unable to post any updates until official confirmation of the results of the discussions had been received.
This will be a 55 week scheme and despite this being disruptive and frustrating, it will FINALLY mean an end to the temporary traffic lights and the nightmare that residents have been living with.

Public Information Event to be held-
Date: Wednesday 24th January
Time: 4:30pm to 8:30pm
Location: Parkside Primary School, Bradshaw Way, Parkside, Stafford, ST16 1TH

I’m so pleased to be able to share this with you and we can all begin to look forward to seeing an end to this ongoing saga.
Please contact myself or County Councillor Jeremy Pert if you have any concerns or issues relating to the work ( or arising from).
County Councillor Jonathan Price
 
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gilesjuk

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Cue said:
Sorry, what do TW need 55 weeks for exactly?
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Widening the road from the roundabout to the cross roads to be a dual carriageway. Install the lights. Cables need laying under the ground etc. It's much faster if you can close the road off but I'm sure it will have to stay open.
 
tek-monkey

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gilesjuk said:
Widening the road from the roundabout to the cross roads to be a dual carriageway. Install the lights. Cables need laying under the ground etc. It's much faster if you can close the road off but I'm sure it will have to stay open.
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The bit between the temporary lights and the top of Stone Road? If so looks to me like they could do ground prep and any cable runs etc at the side of the current road as it's all going to the North?
 
joshua

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** Wide load alert **
On Saturday 20th January, a 500 tonne wide load will be leaving the GE Grid Solutions site near Lichfield Road, Stafford.
The wide load is one of the heaviest loads in the past 12 months and is expected to travel slower than the usual wide loads from this site.
It is believed to depart from the Stafford site around 8am and will travel past Asda, Weston Road, Beaconside, and on to the A34 towards Stone.
 
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joshua said:
** Wide load alert **
On Saturday 20th January, a 500 tonne wide load will be leaving the GE Grid Solutions site near Lichfield Road, Stafford.
The wide load is one of the heaviest loads in the past 12 months and is expected to travel slower than the usual wide loads from this site.
It is believed to depart from the Stafford site around 8am and will travel past Asda, Weston Road, Beaconside, and on to the A34 towards Stone.
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Yep the transporter has been taking up space on Ranshaw drive from the last day or so....
 
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