RENT-A-GOAT Posted October 27, 2009 Report Share Posted October 27, 2009 With the work thats been going on at the junction of parker street/sankey street, anyone else notice the lack of traffic with the lights off on Sunday and Monday? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disgusted Posted October 28, 2009 Report Share Posted October 28, 2009 My worry is the way the pedestrian always gets disadvantaged. e.g. footbridges and underpasses, even pelican crossings, always involve the pedestrian having to walk further than necessary. What a joke. For the sake of four complaints, our council spent a million pounds on the Westbrook/Asda traffic lights so that pedestrians who were incapable of crossing during gaps in the traffic, or walking down to the existing pedestrian walkover, could cross as close as possible to their route. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdrianR Posted October 28, 2009 Author Report Share Posted October 28, 2009 And it still has worst congestion than before. Back to the current lights beign changed near iceland. Based on the rumble pavements beinginstalled, the junction will be massively enlarged. Why? I smell one route at a time being on green whilst the others wait Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dizzy Posted October 30, 2009 Report Share Posted October 30, 2009 Noticed a load of new traffic lights going up on the island just past the Cockhedge Centre today (the one where you turn left to go up towards the new multy storey car park or next left up Winwick Road in the direction of Tesco). WHY....???? THE LIGHT WILL SURELY CAUSE HAVOC as the road before them is not long enough between the new lights and the previous island to to be capable of holding the traffic when the lights are on red !?!?!?!??! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter T Posted October 31, 2009 Report Share Posted October 31, 2009 steady Dismayed, you're asking them to think outside of the box. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted October 31, 2009 Report Share Posted October 31, 2009 As an aside, I heard that the M1 M/Way is now carrying eight times the traffic that it was originally designed for - sort of illustrates the situation generally? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inky pete Posted October 31, 2009 Report Share Posted October 31, 2009 As an aside, I heard that the M1 M/Way is now carrying eight times the traffic that it was originally designed for - sort of illustrates the situation generally? What, that since an arterial motorway can apparently be upgraded to carry 8 times its original design load, then a major programme of new motorway building would offer the most flexible and future proof way of upgrading our national transport infrastructure? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted October 31, 2009 Report Share Posted October 31, 2009 Thus encouraging even more traffic, with everyone finishing up using a car, thus more road space required, until we finish up with wall to wall MacAdam. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asperity Posted October 31, 2009 Report Share Posted October 31, 2009 Until someone sorts out public transport and makes it user friendly and affordable car use is going to be the transport of choice. Just look at Warrington buses. After 6pm and at weekends if you want to go anywhere it has to be your own car or a taxi. The railways are too expensive to use on a regular basis. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted November 1, 2009 Report Share Posted November 1, 2009 I knooooow - perhaps we could get some EU money and kit ourselves out (like Spain & France), with a state of the art rail system? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inky pete Posted November 1, 2009 Report Share Posted November 1, 2009 .....Thus encouraging even more traffic, with everyone finishing up using the train, thus more rail and station space required, until we finish up with wall to wall railways. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted November 1, 2009 Report Share Posted November 1, 2009 Think we're back to that Elephant in the room - overpopulation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asperity Posted November 1, 2009 Report Share Posted November 1, 2009 What! Too many elephants!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
safeway56 Posted November 1, 2009 Report Share Posted November 1, 2009 Before the traffic lights were erected at the junction of Calver Road and Cromwell Avenue it was hellish trying to turn right to head up to Westbrook, then the lights were put in place at a cost of how much I don't know. It was then that right turns were forbidden which was the whole purpose of the lights being installed in the first place. You now have to turn left and do a 360 at the island adjacent to the Fordton Leisure Centre. Monty Python's finest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Kennedy Posted November 1, 2009 Report Share Posted November 1, 2009 Long distance railway journeys over a weekend, nightmare, about one and a half times as long. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoffrey Settle Posted November 1, 2009 Report Share Posted November 1, 2009 I hadn't noticed any rail tracks around Cromwell Traffic lights, when did they put them in Paul? Should we be making sure that our cars have the correct gauge so that we can travel around Warrington - just what is happening? Maybe they've sneaked through the Mancunian Tram. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted November 2, 2009 Report Share Posted November 2, 2009 Never herd of trunk roads Asp?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disgusted Posted November 2, 2009 Report Share Posted November 2, 2009 Before the traffic lights were erected at the junction of Calver Road and Cromwell Avenue it was hellish trying to turn right to head up to Westbrook, then the lights were put in place at a cost of how much I don't know. It was then that right turns were forbidden which was the whole purpose of the lights being installed in the first place. You now have to turn left and do a 360 at the island adjacent to the Fordton Leisure Centre.Monty Python's finest. It is a joke, if all they wanted to end up with was no right turn, there was no need for the lights to be installed as well, and there's no doubt traffic would be running more smoothly than the stop start now in place there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disgusted Posted July 31, 2010 Report Share Posted July 31, 2010 Noticed a load of new traffic lights going up on the island just past the Cockhedge Centre today (the one where you turn left to go up towards the new multy storey car park or next left up Winwick Road in the direction of Tesco). WHY....???? THE LIGHT WILL SURELY CAUSE HAVOC as the road before them is not long enough between the new lights and the previous island to to be capable of holding the traffic when the lights are on red !?!?!?!??! Yesterday was the first time I'd gone through town and seen thes elights working. Surprise surprise, traffic queued and having to stop on the junction. Well done WBC's traffic department, another rampant success! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wahl Posted July 31, 2010 Report Share Posted July 31, 2010 these lights were only supposed to be used at Christmas, not whenever some control freak in WBC decides to play with them. Even in the morning when they are on the rtraffic queues are horrible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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