I can see the flaw in the plan
We rely on traffic lights to tell us when to go. And when to stop. We should replace that with common sense, argues traffic campaigner Martin Cassini.
I just knew that there would be a nasty horrible tailgating truck in that report.
In all seriousness though, turning off the majority of t/l could possibly work, obviously you’d get the cockheads, but giving back responsibility to the motorist might just start to get them to think more and concentrate on the road rather than twitter.
Failing traffic lights used to happen regularly at Hebden Bridge, strange that when they failed the queues were almost non-existant, anyone around Hathern a few weeks back, the lights failed there, traffic was free flowing till the yella bellies turned up and set-up a set of temp lights, queues almost back to Kegworth & Loughborough.
The Expressway from J1 M5 into West Brom is a daily queue into the lights at the next island 1 mile away. They’re building an underpass now but a few months before the work really took off they took the lights down and the the island was a free for all. And yes, you’ve guessed it, the queues either disappeared or were much shorter.