Who are the idiots who program traffic lights these days? I tend to drive
quite a lot late at nights when the traffic is quiet and the amount of times
I'm stuck behind a red light for 2 minutes when there is zero traffic coming
in from the other direction (and there was no traffic even before the light
went red).
Not only does this waste fuel, cause extra pollution and waste peoples time
but its VERY irritating. A good example is the lights on Purley Way in
Croydon where the A23 runs through a deserted (at night) retail area and
there are about 5 sets of braindead lights showing green to the feeder roads
of large closed stores. But they're everywhere it seems in London. Is this
done on purpose just to slow traffic or is money just being saved by not
building in infra red detectors or pressure pads for the lights? (Though
strangely there seems to be enough money to equip these lights with cameras to
spot red light jumpers, funny that).

B2003