By: Sandy

Sandy — Sun, 30 Jun 2013 16:16:36 +0000

I’ve got to disagree on the road sysetm round Cabot Circus, simply because of the number of traffic lights, which illustrates Kerry’s point perfectly. Before Cabot Circus’s existence, there was only really one or two sets and it worked OK. Now if you’re coming from the centre past Cabot Circus out towards TM you have to drive through a good 5 or 6 sets of traffic lights including pedestrian crossings. How can this be a good thing?Still, it’s better than the Temple Circus Gyratory which frankly is an afront to traffic management. I cannot believe that the traffic engineers got it so wrong on this one – even I can spot the errors here and I’m not even a traffic signals engineer. In case anyone from the council reads this: The major flaws are 1) the fact that the exit for TM Station has a pedestrian crossing IMMEDIATELY after the roundabout – not only is this pointless as there’s another one literally yards down the road outside the station, but it holds all the traffic on the roundabout causing large amounts of congestion – the second crossing outside the station is linked with the traffic light timings there so wouldn’t be such a problem; 2) the pedestrian crossing the other side of this one, which again is pointless due to the one further up the road, but stops traffic progressing towards the gyratory from the A37, so even when the lights are on green the traffic can’t go through because of the pedestrian crossing; 3) The traffic lights halfway along Redcliffe Way which are supposed to give priority to the bus lane (fair enough) but is on a timer rather than a sensor so it regularly puts the bus lane on green and the normal traffic on red, even if there’s nothing in the buslane, which is infuriating.It’s so bad you could almost argue they’ve done it deliberately to “tempt” people out of their cars because it’s so terrible to drive through the city. Hmmmmmm….

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