It migh just be the lights have gone out of phase.
Why not give your local highway authority a ring and ask them to alter the traffic light phasing back to what it was and ask the question if anything is planned about reoad pricing.
I quite regularly do ask the highways department in my area what is happening or to alter traffic light phasing where I perceive a problem and they usually are very helpful indeed.
If no one tells them they can't do anything.
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Not at all.
It is now accepted that this is just what Ken Livingstone did in Central London before the Congestion Charge was introduced - loads of road works and traffic light rephasing to delay everyone prior to the introduction of the Charge, all of which finished/reverted to normal afterwards, so that he could say 'look how much better traffic is with the Charge'. Of course, traffic did reduce anyway, but he made it look even 'better'.
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>>It is now accepted that this is just what Ken Livingstone did
By whom ? Not by me. On what evidence ?
I doubt its true. One of his staff, one of the workers within the organisation, or some administrator somewhere, would have grassed him up. It just seems like wishful thinking on behalf of those people who prefer a conspiracy and prefer to believe that decisions they don't like come from "evil" men.
I can't stand the man myself, but he's no fool. And only a fool would make such a move.
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About 9 or 10 years ago, I spoke with a police sergeant from the traffic dept dealing with an accident at Hanger Lane gyratory, an awful traffic blackspot where the North Circular Road meets the A40 in NW London.
He had the keys to a box which could alter the phasing of the lights....... he temporarily altered the phasing, to ease the traffic flow after the removal of a car blocking a carriageway...... and admitted that he was not allowed to do this for purely congestion reasons....... only after an accident etc and that his actions were monitored centrally by the numerous cctv cameras.
He stated ( I have no idea how accurate this was) that the lights were phased to deliberately cause hold ups, to
discourage motorists to drive into Central London.
I can confirm that junction has been a nightmare for traffic hold ups for donkey's years.
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Indeed lights are phased to cause jams in one place, normally to prevent a gridlock further down the line. They are used as taps to prevent the bowl overflowing.
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If there's no queue at the lights in my city we know they're faulty.
Steve.
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Xantia HDi.
Buy a Citroen and get to know the local GSF staff better...
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Traffic lights are a constriction at the best of times because even at a simple cross roads during every cycle there are at least two periods where it is red both ways and no traffic can move.
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With the British love of bureaucracy and the thriving interfering jobsworth culture, you don't need old-fashioned conspiracies any more in order to produce monumental cock-ups and inefficiencies.
Ken Livingstone doesn't have to issue instructions to traffic light engineers - they set them for maximum congestion just for the sheer love of doing the job.
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Ken Livingstone doesn't have to issue instructions to traffic light engineers - they set them for maximum congestion just for the sheer love of doing the job.
I'm afraid you may be right CP. There's also much creative use of repairs and building work involving partial road closures. It's ideology backed by that sort of hypocritical victimised arrogance we see in jihadis. Unfortunately there is no simple and brutally violent solution. Indeed there may be no solution at all. We may just have to give way to these jerks because they're nearly a majority and have a majority hypnotised.
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