OT: red light jumping

David Martin

On 23/12/04 3:44 pm, in article 41cae7e1$0$139$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl,
"Roos Eisma" <roos@xs4all.nl> wrote:

> Velvet <velvet@not.a.valid.domain> writes:
>
>> The car was a UK plate, but I suppose that's no indication that the
>> driver was from the UK - but even so...
>
> When I first drove in Scotland I was not familiar with the habit of
> repeating traffic lights at the other side of a junction. I haven't gone
> as far as stopping in the middle of a junction, but there were a number of
> locations where it was less obvious and I have stopped because the second
> set og lights turned amber just when I was getting there.


And then to confuse matters, they completely screwed up the Loons Road
junction when they re aligned it. Instead of being one set of traffic lights
it now has pedestrian crossings on four arms of the crossroads. One of the
arms is one way (into th ecrossing). These four sets of lights sort of work
together but if the far one goes red then you have to stop at the stop line
to get out of the junction. Extremely confusing and I am guilty of going
through more than one red light there when exiting the junction before I
realised that they had turned one junction into goodness knows how many.

...d

Badger

Tony Raven wrote:

> That's insufficient for speeds above 35mph as the Government has
> admitted but they have decided instead to lengthen the double red phase
> to let the cars that cannot stop go through the red light hopefully safely.
>
> Tony
You don't know the segensworth roundabout do you? There the phasing is
so short as one part goes red the next is going green, and most regulars
wait several seconds before moving as they know the jumpers will keep
coming for that long....