Interesting that people seem to ignore red traffic lights with impunity these days and yet if these same people meet a set of lights that are out of order then chaos ensues,it seems that 90% of the population do indeed need nannying to the point of cradle to grave if they cant use common sense and can gridlock a town on a quiet sunday afternoon because they dont know how to cope with a simple set of broken ones
what happened to those nice policemen with their white gloves as well? all retired now i guess
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I find myself agreeing with you. See recent post about a fallen tree. Seem to remember saying something like "they were all hanging about until Team Nanny UK" turned up to clear the sapling blocking the main road.............we've sadly become helpless.
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Actually there is a case that when traffic lights fail the traffic ran more smoothly.
Cast your mind back to the great storm and floods in Cumbria three years ago you may recall quite a substantial area of Carlisle was under water including Hardwick Circus roundabout which is one of the major junctions in the city centre.
The traffic lights failed and when the floods receded and traffic started moving again Hardwick circus roundabout ran much easier with no traffic jams. Lo and behold the city planners thought this is good lets keep the lights off for 6 months as an experiment. Yes it worked so now the lights only are used at peak time and the rest of the time its every-one for themselves and it still works.
Tell that to the city planners in other cities and i bet they would not believe it.
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The lights at the bottom of our street failed on Thursday morning - I've never seen the junction as quiet and free running!. Cars apporached slowly and simply took their turn.
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yes mrnikko i agree if the zombies meet these same lights each day and they are still out then i can imagine the cells of their loins might well work out that they got through yesterday so they will get through them again today ;-)
what i was meaning was these people cannot think for themselves they follow like little lost sheep
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the whole of the U.K. driving experience has been dumbed down to a frightening level.....
- no one looks in their mirrors any more,
- how many times have you been in traffic and a motorist want to turn right, has positioned
themselves intelligently to leave some room and the screaming carphound (to steal a Lud term)
behind, can't tilt their steering wheel by a measly 2 degrees to pull around them to the nearside
- how many people nowadays drive up a piece of road and decide for THEMSELVES what a safe
speed is correct for those circs
- how many people automatically aim for the middle lane on a motorway or outside lane on a
dual carriageway
- how many people genuinely 'mirror,signal,manouevre' in that sequence
- how many people would think to wait when an artic indicates right but pulls left to start with
.... or when they're swinging around a roundabout.
we have developed into a driving nation of morons, unable to think for ourselves, dependant on officialdom to wipe our backsides....and of course officialdom A, isn't always right and B, isn't there for you when something unusual happens
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Traffic lights, are often used, esp on the A4, to cause congestion. it is K.L.'s idea to annoy as many people as possible in the vain hope that people would start using public transport.
Between Heathrow and Slough, about 15-20 years ago a large, free flowing roundabout was repalced by traffic lights, preventing even safe left turns for a long time, with no traffic going past,which even at midnight control non existant traffic. This is true at so many roundabout also at times outside of rush hour.
The lights suddenly stop working, people concentrate and traffic flows easier
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Well last Monday the lights failed on the roundabout above the M40 J9 ( & A34 south).
That was before 10:00.
"Traffic lights not working" signs had been deployed but not the Mr Fixits.
I used the roundabout again at 11:00 and went north on the M40. Lights still out.
The traffic coming south was very badly congested and stationary in all thee lanes at times.
This was all the way back to and beyond J10
There was absolutely no problem going south from J9 and no problem anywhere going north.
Exiting north at J9 was easy.
So the traffic lights out certainly did NOT make the traffic flow easier.
IMO the lights are there, in the main, to assist all the trucks in effect turning right onto the A34.
It is rather disappointing that the lights at such a critical site were not fixed more promptly.
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In nottingham, the Local Transport Policy states that additional traffic lights will be installed and the phasing changed to reduce the average speed of vehicles and to repeatedly bring them to a stop to improve community safety.
I fully support anyone who goes through red traffic signals in a safe manner.
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In nottingham the Local Transport Policy states that additional traffic lights will be installed and the phasing changed to reduce the average speed of vehicles and to repeatedly bring them to a stop to improve community safety.
And of course congested traffic produces more pollution ...
Who on earth votes these power-crazed jobsworth numpties into power!?!?!?
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>>Who on earth votes these power-crazed jobsworth numpties into power!?!?!?
Erm, we do!
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>>Who on earth votes these power-crazed jobsworth numpties into power!?!?!? Erm we do!
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Sadly Neiltoo, most of us don't - the turnout at local elections is frequently less than 40% of those actually eligible to vote. We have the government (local and national) we deserve.
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In this town in deepest, darkest, Cumbria we have one set of traffic-lights, and yesterday some idiot pedestrian actually pressed the button! which made them turn red, and lo an behold for the first time in three years a car had to stop!! - Bah! must have been a tourist.
Billy
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When the traffic lights fail on the Meadows roundabout in Camberley (junction of A321 and A331 with A30 and a major shopping complex) it flows beautifully.
I wish they'd take the bleeping things out permanently.
Cheers
DP
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Seems one or two places have done precisely that , and - surprise, surprise - traffic flows more smoothly and there are now no accidents.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006...l
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