----- Original Message ----- From: "Baz Juniper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2007 10:59 AM Subject: Re: [canals-list] Re: Proposed new car tax (OT)
> > On 10 Feb 2007, at 16:50, Julian Tether wrote: > >> There are certain parts of London where the traffic light phasing has >> been altered and there is now congestion where before the change there >> was not. > > And elsewhere, but light phase changes are sometimes introduced to > help those other benighted road users, the ones on legs. > Ok, explain Sherrifhall Roundabout, on the Edinburgh City Bypass. Every minor road crossing the bypass has a split level junction, except the junction with the A7 and A68, which is a roundabout with traffic lights. Those lights are phased so that traffic is allowed onto the roundabout from one road, then stopped across the next, whose lights then go green, before the previous lot is allowed to exit. Result is that one vehicle gets onto the roundabout per light cycle. When the lights break down, the "congestion" disappears. There is no pedestrian access whatsoever. Edinburgh Council is well known to be anti car. Coincidence? This is the council whose congestion charging proposals were heavily rejected in a referendum, and which is now introducing trams, removed in the first place for being inflexible and a major cause of congestion. They refuse to put the tram question to a referendum, more or less admitting it's because they know they'd lose. -- Niall
