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Views on traffic lights - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18072259
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Views on traffic lights - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18072259
If the authorities don't want to get rid of traffic lights then they at least need to modernise them and add filter arrows to certain junctions.
Not sure what the answer is but islands always seem to work.
No, not really. Traffic signals have been modernised immensely over the years - but all the technology is behind the scenes. You can't look at junctions in isolation. In any network, if you make a change at one junction it can affect others some distance away.
Nice one Mr.Admin'feck'
Any fair-minded pedestrian would be prepared to forego his 'gap in the traffic' and wait for his 'official gap in the traffic' to eventually arrive, surely. Especially when it's raining.?Not as often as you'll see pedestrians 'press the button', wait an age - by which time there is a gap in the 'traffic' anyway - and cross, 'holding up' the motorist to the overall sum of feck all i'd be willing to wager.
There was a discussion about these lights back in pre-history..I'll probably get shot down with this one, but is there anyone out there that feels the need for the traffic lights at junction 14 M6? I've never been held up there or seen traffic backing up on the slip roads. Visibility is good across the island so why have the traffic lights? It's a perfect example (in my eyes) of how traffic lights hold up the traffic flow with no discernible benefit to traffic flow down stream.
I have always thought that traffic lights that work purely by timers should be switched off at night. Most of the time you come to a red when the other roads have nothing on them. Far better are the systems that actually detect vehicles.
I understand that the Sainsbury's crossing may be intended to monitor when it is actually in use by pedestrians and thus adjust the 'green man' time accordingly - this is possibly nonsense, though.
I'll probably get shot down with this one, but is there anyone out there that feels the need for the traffic lights at junction 14 M6? I've never been held up there or seen traffic backing up on the slip roads. Visibility is good across the island so why have the traffic lights? It's a perfect example (in my eyes) of how traffic lights hold up the traffic flow with no discernible benefit to traffic flow down stream.