This is actually great news, though I can’t understand why the tax payer is footing any bill for ‘investment’
Get rid of the cycle lanes and the LTNs first Khan you idiot!
Seven Sisters Road has had Thames water digging it up every month for the last 2 years.
The biggest thing which nobody seems to realise are traffic light pedestrian crossings (with the green and red man). They’re unbelievable inefficient and often stop vehicles unnecessarily for 5+ minutes. Get stuck in 3 of those on a 30 minute journey and you’re adding 15 minutes easily.
I cycle and if i was to stop at every traffic lighted pedestrian crossing I would double my commute time home (yes i know i should stop at them all but if they’re literally empty I pass through slowly).
Not sure how best to approach it and not saying we just shouldn’t have traffic lighted pedestrian crossings but these multi way pedestrian crossings that stop hundreds of vehicles so that one or two people can cross is not efficient at all.
Just enforce the bus lanes and illegal parking and you’d probably gain £10 million along with improving bus times.
I’ll help for free:
* Don’t blockade as much of the road for overly cautious “health and safety” reasons when you don’t need to. Let traffic have more room to navigate.
* Avoid 3+ way temporary traffic lights wherever possible as they cause huge delays due to their timings frequently being poor configured, giving far too much time to an empty road and not enough time to the major ones filled with cars. Place roadworks in better positions and if necessary, close minor roads so the lights can be 2-way.
* Have workers actually work long hours on shifts to get the job done as quickly as possible. Don’t spend a day setting up for 8 hours then go home and wait another 16 hours of traffic mayhem before doing another 8 hours for several weeks. Get the work done on a 12+ hour shift pattern, especially in summer months where there is more natural light. Yes, it may cost more to work like this, but all the pollution and lost productivity through roadwork related traffic should more than pay for that.
A lot of them should be pedestrian priority, so much wasted time for everyone when they take 60 seconds to change and in that time a pedestrian has legged it across the road or walked in a gap, the the light changes for no one but stops traffic. There is no 5 minute ped crossing though anywhere in the city.
Someone call Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves
Best thing to do is get rid of cars, as they’re what actually creates traffic
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This is actually great news, though I can’t understand why the tax payer is footing any bill for ‘investment’
Get rid of the cycle lanes and the LTNs first Khan you idiot!
Seven Sisters Road has had Thames water digging it up every month for the last 2 years.
The biggest thing which nobody seems to realise are traffic light pedestrian crossings (with the green and red man). They’re unbelievable inefficient and often stop vehicles unnecessarily for 5+ minutes. Get stuck in 3 of those on a 30 minute journey and you’re adding 15 minutes easily.
I cycle and if i was to stop at every traffic lighted pedestrian crossing I would double my commute time home (yes i know i should stop at them all but if they’re literally empty I pass through slowly).
Not sure how best to approach it and not saying we just shouldn’t have traffic lighted pedestrian crossings but these multi way pedestrian crossings that stop hundreds of vehicles so that one or two people can cross is not efficient at all.
Just enforce the bus lanes and illegal parking and you’d probably gain £10 million along with improving bus times.
I’ll help for free:
* Don’t blockade as much of the road for overly cautious “health and safety” reasons when you don’t need to. Let traffic have more room to navigate.
* Avoid 3+ way temporary traffic lights wherever possible as they cause huge delays due to their timings frequently being poor configured, giving far too much time to an empty road and not enough time to the major ones filled with cars. Place roadworks in better positions and if necessary, close minor roads so the lights can be 2-way.
* Have workers actually work long hours on shifts to get the job done as quickly as possible. Don’t spend a day setting up for 8 hours then go home and wait another 16 hours of traffic mayhem before doing another 8 hours for several weeks. Get the work done on a 12+ hour shift pattern, especially in summer months where there is more natural light. Yes, it may cost more to work like this, but all the pollution and lost productivity through roadwork related traffic should more than pay for that.
A lot of them should be pedestrian priority, so much wasted time for everyone when they take 60 seconds to change and in that time a pedestrian has legged it across the road or walked in a gap, the the light changes for no one but stops traffic. There is no 5 minute ped crossing though anywhere in the city.
Someone call Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves
Best thing to do is get rid of cars, as they’re what actually creates traffic