London Banter - View Single Post - Is congestion fair, or is it an easy way out for local governments lack of transport planning?

Boltar · October 20th 06, 12:00 PM posted to uk.transport.london

wrote:
Traffic needs to flow and the constant stop start traffic lights adds
to the traffic. If we define traffic a the time a vehicle is on the

It seems to me most of the traffic lights in london are of the
brain dead fixed timer type. The number of times I've been stuck
at a red light late at night with no traffic going in the other
direction (or was even waiting at the lights to start with) I've lost
count of. A good example would be the A23 purley way where
TfL obviously know theres an issue because theres red camera
lights on a lot of them presumably in case some poor driver whos
just had enough gets p1ssed off and drives through a red.

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