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Topic ID 3792
12/09/2008 by Brockman
Crossing at roundabout of North Rd and Cross Ln
Right, I'm getting sick of this.
How long does it take the pedestrian crossing on the corner of North Road and Cross Lane take to bloody change. It seems it takes both buttons on both sides of the road to be pressed before it can be bothered to turn the lights to red for us folk without cars to cross.
I'm sorry, but when the lights at the train station are almost immediate, yet it sometimes takes so long at the other end of the road that it might be quick to walk all the way up there and back*, it's obvious that something needs to change.
Who is it that we need to complain to, to get the priorities of this crossing sorted?
* Not literally of course, but it's close enough
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Reply ID 55099
12/09/2008 by SMT
The lights near the former St Andrews vicarage? I regularly use these in the daytime and have not noticed a particular delay, but maybe it is more of an issue in the evening. Are the lights "responsive" to traffic, so that if there are cars, the pedestrians have to wait longer but if the road is quiet you get across quicker? Does such technology exist?
Suggest you contact Herts Highways on their fault reporting weblink to raise the phasing problems.. failing that, your local councillor (town, district or county).
Reply ID 55100
12/09/2008 by Brockman
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Originally posted by SMT
The lights near the former St Andrews vicarage? I regularly use these in the daytime and have not noticed a particular delay, but maybe it is more of an issue in the evening. Are the lights "responsive" to traffic, so that if there are cars, the pedestrians have to wait longer but if the road is quiet you get across quicker? Does such technology exist?
Suggest you contact Herts Highways on their fault reporting weblink to raise the phasing problems.. failing that, your local councillor (town, district or county).
Maybe so, but that's the problem. Of a morning when I'm trying to get to work, I've had to wait 3-4 minutes before they change. I've lost count of how many times there has been a 5-10 second gap in the traffic, but no, it's persisted in keeping the lights on green for traffic. You simply can't use a traffic-based crossing system on that junction; it's too busy. It has to be one similar to the one at the train station where it forces it to stop when a pedestrian needs to cross.
Reply ID 55110
13/09/2008 by shunt
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Originally posted by Brockman
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Originally posted by SMT
The lights near the former St Andrews vicarage? I regularly use these in the daytime and have not noticed a particular delay, but maybe it is more of an issue in the evening. Are the lights "responsive" to traffic, so that if there are cars, the pedestrians have to wait longer but if the road is quiet you get across quicker? Does such technology exist?
Suggest you contact Herts Highways on their fault reporting weblink to raise the phasing problems.. failing that, your local councillor (town, district or county).
Maybe so, but that's the problem. Of a morning when I'm trying to get to work, I've had to wait 3-4 minutes before they change. I've lost count of how many times there has been a 5-10 second gap in the traffic, but no, it's persisted in keeping the lights on green for traffic. You simply can't use a traffic-based crossing system on that junction; it's too busy. It has to be one similar to the one at the train station where it forces it to stop when a pedestrian needs to cross.
To react faster and more often, it would probably need moving, but then that would be self-defeating. It's a crossing, right on a roundabout and a three way junction, at the end of a road which is so short that another roundabout on a major trunk route is blocked by the waiting traffic when it is operated.
It can only have been sited where it is, because it was found that pedestrians cross at the junction in preference to a safer location.
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