Why do traffic light controls on motorway slip roads have one set of lights pointing the wrong way - ie) against the entrance flow ? Is this a subtle way of introducing driving on the right by the EU ?
Just curious
Old Nick
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Maybe they are going to switch motorways to driving on the right and if that works extend it gradually to other classes of road.
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Is it to aid the old fárts who have the knack of driving the wrong way up our motorways, perhaps?
Don't think the EU has anything to do with this one.
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Old Nick,
I have never noticed the lights you mention (there should not be a need for the amber & green bulbs though...).
I have seen in Eire, big signs a few yards (or meters) up sliproads (facing away from the flow of traffic), saying
WRONG WAY! GO BACK!
I thought they were a good idea.
Regards
John R
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John R
The 'Wrong way' signs also appear in America on Freeway junctions. Seem like a good idea, but would they have any effect on anyone who is determined enough to exit a Motorway services the wrong way? I wonder.
Regards
John S
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The middle aged lady in a small Oriental hatchback, who I saw a couple of weeks ago driving the wrong way round the busiest roundabout in Ipswich during the evening rush hour, needs more than just signs....
Richard Hall
bangernomics.tripod.com
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The middle aged lady in a small Oriental hatchback, who I saw a couple of weeks ago driving the wrong way round the busiest roundabout in Ipswich during the evening rush hour, needs more than just signs....
ALthough since speed kills driving round a one way backwards must be one of the safest things you can do.
Minus 30mph. Would be impossible to crash...
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