Saturday, March 26, 2016

ACTION CALL OVER OLD COURTS ROAD TRAFFIC LIGHTS IN BRIGG

 

Brigg Blog's very long experience of reporting local topics sometimes permits us to forecast what's going to happen. And such was the case when, last weekend, we took the above picture of cars at the town's main set of traffic lights, on the A18 Barnard Avenue, which serves Old Courts Road (to the left, behind the vets) and Wesley Road (to the right).
Sure enough, the issue of waiting time and the lights changing sequence was raised at Monday night's Annual Town Meeting - by former councillor Jenny Bell.
She made the point we've reported before about some drivers who wish to go straight on at these lights setting off when they are still on red because they have observed drivers alongside them getting a green for go to turn right into Wesley Road.
Jenny described drivers proceeding on red as "unbelievable" and suggested the lights needed to be altered "or there will be an accident." She pointed out  the sequence of  lights had been changed.
Ex-councillor Jackie Brock then raised a lights-related issue about difficulties experienced by pedestrians crossing the A18.
Coun Rob Waltham, deputy leader of North Lincolnshire Council, said they would feed it back to the highways department.  He said the new system was less than a year old but said a request would be made for the issue to be looked at and reviewed. He added that there was no longer the build up of traffic there had been in the past.

1 comment:

Ken Harrison said...

With the Cary Lane/Barnard Ave lights being out of sync with OCR/Barnard Ave lights, during periods of heavy traffic, the permutation of one set of lights on red, while the other set is on green can lead to the flow of traffic becoming a log jam; some cars, emerging from, for example, Wesley Road, being inadvertently stuck in the yellow grid as the line of traffic grinds to standstill. This can, and does affect traffic moving forward when the green is given..so the whole situation is compounded...
The main traffic flow is along Barnard Ave, but the TL sequence has to go thro' its whole dance routine to allow comparatively few cars to emerge from the side roads.
I still think that the TL create there own unfortunate self-fulfilling sequence.....and perhaps many of the problems could be resolved by not having any traffic lights....Which, if human, I would regard them as control freaks, tending to exacerbate traffic flow problems, more than resolving them..