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(Shurely highways agency cat? Ed.)staff4ord said:Cue council cat
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(Shurely highways agency cat? Ed.)staff4ord said:Cue council cat
Withnail said:(Shurely highways agency cat? Ed.)staff4ord said:Cue council cat
henryscat said:Fortunately, no!!dylanf said:You dont work for the highways agency do you by any chance?
All that skid marks show is that someone has braked very heavily, it proves nothing else.staff4ord said:You can always tell when a new road junction or set of lights is a bad idea when there are a large amount of skid marks left on the road surface. Quite scary that some of them continue across the white line and into the junction.
The cowl on the green light has been straightened out, but it's been hit again - and the red light this time, too. I imagine that it will have been struck by a goods vehicle.Vault_girl said:the last green light before creswell has been hit by something. can barely see the light! wonder if someone took out their frustation on it...
And oilgilesjuk said:I've no problem with the lights being on at peak times to help manage the congestion, but at night they hamper the flow of traffic and are just there sapping even more electricity.
I have passed through the junction ten times - been stopped on nine of those - and on seven of those there has been no traffic on the 'green route' - on the twice that there was, we could both have easily merged seamlessly.John Marwood said:And oilgilesjuk said:I've no problem with the lights being on at peak times to help manage the congestion, but at night they hamper the flow of traffic and are just there sapping even more electricity.
Unless the worldwide ( London and the US ) depression moves in as a cold front bringing an alltime low did you know the IRA tried to blow up and electricity pylon next to the M6 once but in general of course you are right as all fields will become roads or roads leading to roads amen one day eventually if we as a sovereign gold coinage nation can afford the fright at the pumps punctuation see me after schoolhenryscat said:The real issue is one of too much traffic. The energy consumption of some traffic lights compared to all the traffic is very very small.
In the not too distant future hard shoulder running / Active Traffic Management is going to effectively make a 4 lane M6 past Stafford. As extra road capacity generates more traffic it will put more traffic through the junctions (as well as Stafford). So its not unreasonable to expect J14 amongst others to get even busier.
Two of the cowls are completely missing now. That post is fairly close to the curb.Gramaisc said:The cowl on the green light has been straightened out, but it's been hit again - and the red light this time, too. I imagine that it will have been struck by a goods vehicle.Vault_girl said:the last green light before creswell has been hit by something. can barely see the light! wonder if someone took out their frustation on it...
The cowls are supposed to stop the drivers on the other route from seeing when the lights are about to change and running them, I presume - or being confused by red and green lights in close proximity.
Yesterday afternoon I was heading out of Stafford on the A34. There must have been a powercut or something as the traffic lights by Lloyds Bank, the lights at The Hough and the lights at the junction with St Leonard's Ave were all out of action. Yet somehow traffic was moving much more fluidly than usual in all directions, with no queues. Bliss!gk141054 said:For some reason though, the council / highways seem to have an aversion to part-time signals around Stafford.