Ziltro wrote:
You can get stuck at the junction in the first image for a couple of minutes even when there aren't any cars passing on the other phase. The council reckon the traffic lights adjust according to traffic flows. What a load of bollocks, because it is commonplace to have to wait for nobody for ridiculous lenghts of time.
The second image is at a junction that was recently resignalled. Turning movements were banned and the north-south and vice versa routes made buses only. However, at the same time they added extra phases to give north-south etc bus movements seperate phases, even though only one or two pass through each time. It was unnecessary, and congestion here is worse, both for the ring road and for London Road where they are trying to improve environmental quality (progress on the project has stalled somewhat).
The third image shows a junction that isn't so bad, but is still more inefficient than in other parts of the country that use supposedly less advanced computer systems.
The traffic lights in Southampton are controlled by a multi-million pound computer system that is supposedly one of the most advanced in Europe. However, unlike the lingo the council give you the traffic lights don't adjust their timings according to traffic flow, and they severely hamper traffic flow rather than improving it. Southampton City Council live in a dream world. If you say something is bad and provide examples of it they dismiss it and say that whatever it is is good. It goes for inefficient traffic lights, bus lanes not on bus routes, and schools that are being closed down.
Too many traffic lights, and too inefficient. One day there will be a traffic light at the end of my driveway!
Southampton, a city where a school catchment area can cut off midway up a tower block! We're run by monkeys; actually, they're too clever.