Honestly what moron decided to put traffic lights on a roundabout?!
The problem is that a huge amount of traffic ends up driving into a tiny “village path”. The agia-fyla road leading up to the palodia starts wide and ends up being a tiny village street.
Its like pushing tons of water thru a pipe and into a straw.
This is the result of poor civic planning, seeing how the city grew upwards, and the fact that each cypriot family owns an avg of 4 cars (which is itself a result of poor transportation infrastructure)
The only solution is to bridge agias fylaxeos at this point.
Believe it or not the traffic lights have mitigated the issue a bit. Does it look stupid? You bet!
Live in a village up this road in the mountains and every day in the morning I go to the city. Without working traffic lights, the traffic jam starts from pahit ice agia Fyla and on average the section to the highway is driven in 20-30 minutes. If the traffic lights are working – slowly slowly the traffic moves to the highway and the maximum delay is up to 10 minutes. Traffic lights are essential!
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So your solution?
Honestly what moron decided to put traffic lights on a roundabout?!
The problem is that a huge amount of traffic ends up driving into a tiny “village path”. The agia-fyla road leading up to the palodia starts wide and ends up being a tiny village street.
Its like pushing tons of water thru a pipe and into a straw.
This is the result of poor civic planning, seeing how the city grew upwards, and the fact that each cypriot family owns an avg of 4 cars (which is itself a result of poor transportation infrastructure)
The only solution is to bridge agias fylaxeos at this point.
Believe it or not the traffic lights have mitigated the issue a bit. Does it look stupid? You bet!
Live in a village up this road in the mountains and every day in the morning I go to the city. Without working traffic lights, the traffic jam starts from pahit ice agia Fyla and on average the section to the highway is driven in 20-30 minutes. If the traffic lights are working – slowly slowly the traffic moves to the highway and the maximum delay is up to 10 minutes. Traffic lights are essential!
You may not have encountered a [magic roundabout](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Roundabout_(Hemel_Hempstead)).
There are a few others in existence, but that particular one is convenient for when I take people to UK for a unique traffic experience.