--- Nick H (UK) ranted [about red traffic lights]:

But unfortunately it is a fashion that has been wholeheartedly
adopted by many local councils with their money-wasting
road engineering.


Really? Well, I just wish it would be adopted by Croydon council.

They're supposed to be responsible for the traffic lights at the
junction of Westow Hill and Gipsy Hill. When the council introduced
their badly-designed one-way system a year or so ago, the traffic lights
were changed so that now they no longer stop on all reds in all
directions, halting all the traffic and allowing pedestrians to cross
safely. There is *always* traffic turning into Westow Hill from
somewhere. You have to dash between cars each time you cross the road
there. It's ridiculous.

In fact, I'd love to see more lights on red for longer in my local area,
making it far more pedestrian friendly. But there's just no sign of it
happening at all. I suspect the phenomenon of increasing red lights is
just one of the many imaginary threats that only exist in motorists'
collective paranoia. If that's what driving can do to your sanity, I'm
glad I don't do it.