Some complaints continue to be voiced in Brigg about the way the traffic lights are set up to control the flow of vehicles on, and approaching, the A18.
The latest we’ve heard concerns the time drivers have to wait when trying to turn right from Wesley Road onto Barnard Avenue.
We’ve stuck our neck out on this one a number of times and reckon that things are better since the “smart” lighting system was installed last year. We never said it was perfect.
For at a busy 4-way junction like the top of Old Courts Road, a change in the lighting sequence to favour one exit route must increase the waiting time for others.
All we can suggest is that drivers pass on their observations about waiting times to local councillors either directly or by posting a comment on Brigg Blog.
NLC need to do a traffic survey to ask drivers where they are going to/from and could they have made the journey by public transport thus cutting the traffic down at busy junction's
ReplyDeleteDo we really need traffics light at that junction?
ReplyDeleteThe old fashioned give-way lines in Wesley Rd and Old Courts would allow drivers the discretion when to enter the traffic flow.
At the moment, traffic is being stopped at the lights somewhat arbitrary.
Is the junction over-sophisticated, when a simple give way system is all that is required? Are the traffic lights per-se the course of the problem...a sort of self-fulfilling prophecy that seeming dictates to resolve the problem an increasing more complicated traffic light system is required?
Anyone thought of officially disconnecting the lights for a week, or so as an experiment, to assess the outcome?