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Noticed last Tuesday coming from Houghton way the lights onto the roundabout were only on green for a really short amount of time. Like you say, 3 or 4 cars getting through at a time. Went through yesterday and they were back to normal again.The traffic light timings have been changed travelling from town to the roundabout. Only 4/5 vehicles get through when lights are on green. Traffic builds up quite heavily back towards East Herrington. Any ideas why this has been done? Seems totally unnecessary to me.
It'll be backing up on all routes but with the traffic lights, it'll let vehicles through from every section in turn so no one route get more blocked than another.
Sadly not. It runs on a timetable, even late in the evening. I noticed the same as the OP on Sunday when heading off to the Lumiere. One advantage coming from the South is you can now get all the way around the roundabout without stopping. A case of swings & roundabouts.
Local councillor Dominic McDonaghue (Dinnar how to spell it) worked with the council to sort out the sequencing issue which was causing tailbacks after complaints from local residents. Assume it never worked or hasn’t yet been changed.The traffic light timings have been changed travelling from town to the roundabout. Only 4/5 vehicles get through when lights are on green. Traffic builds up quite heavily back towards East Herrington. Any ideas why this has been done? Seems totally unnecessary to me.
Interesting. Surely that's how they're meant to work as I suggested?
I think it’s one of them that is controlled by traffic lights all the time. Fair enough at rush hour but absolutely no need at other times, you find yourself just feckin sittin there with no traffic coming wasting your time.
What would he know about traffic light sequencesLocal councillor Dominic McDonaghue (Dinnar how to spell it) worked with the council to sort out the sequencing issue which was causing tailbacks after complaints from local residents. Assume it never worked or hasn’t yet been changed.
Local councillor Dominic McDonaghue (Dinnar how to spell it) worked with the council to sort out the sequencing issue which was causing tailbacks after complaints from local residents. Assume it never worked or hasn’t yet been changed.
There’s a roundabout near me with 24/7 timed lights. I can sit there at a red light between 7pm and 6am with no one else using the roundabout. Crackers.
I assume you didn’t sit there for twenty minutes and just ran the red when it was safe to do so?White Mare Pool roundabout works better with less queuing when the lights aren’t working , now there’s a novel idea , switch the damn things off and let a roundabout work as it should.
The lights on the A1231 roundabout on the A19 were faulty a few years ago , took nearly twenty minutes to get through , so frustrating when you’re sat in a queue and watching virtually no traffic coming from the right. It was a Bloody Sunday afternoon !
I noticed earlier in the week it was backlogged from the A690 A19 roundabout down to the board inn. The queue went along silksworth rd to the entrance to Long Meadows. I couldn't see how far it went up the Durham rd towards at Chad's.The traffic light timings have been changed travelling from town to the roundabout. Only 4/5 vehicles get through when lights are on green. Traffic builds up quite heavily back towards East Herrington. Any ideas why this has been done? Seems totally unnecessary to me.
The lights at the Toll bar work better when switched off. There's always queues there, at times you look and every junction is stationary. One Saturday they weren't working and I drove through them twice. Both times I was barely delayed as drivers gave way and used common sense. The traffic flowed better than any other time I've driven through there.White Mare Pool roundabout works better with less queuing when the lights aren’t working , now there’s a novel idea , switch the damn things off and let a roundabout work as it should.
The lights on the A1231 roundabout on the A19 were faulty a few years ago , took nearly twenty minutes to get through , so frustrating when you’re sat in a queue and watching virtually no traffic coming from the right. It was a Bloody Sunday afternoon !
I assume you didn’t sit there for twenty minutes and just ran the red when it was safe to do so?