Anthony R. Gold wrote:
Yes, the Extension will start on 19 February 2007, but the claim was made
that someone was tampering with lights in order to create congestion prior
to the start of the scheme and that seems unlikely in view of the agendas
of those with the power to do that.

And, I would suggest, often now people have something to blame traffic
light congestion on, they may be more noticing of it than they would
have been in the past. Or simply be plain stupid, as per the piece I
read in the Evening Standard about the traffic lights at Trafalgar
Squa "Seven roads come into Trafalgar Square. You only get 30
seconds of your light being green, then you have to wait a FULL THREE
MINUTES for the light to go green again!" (do the math, as our American
cousins say).

Patrick