Coral Reef rdbt (Bracknell) to be replaced by traffic lights

[Matthen]

ffc said:

Word is out http://www.bracknellnews.co.uk/news/bracknell/arti...

Ask the workmen to do a phase adjustment... ideally turn them all off. That councillor is a complete retard. They should be building fly overs, not traffic lights.

[MX-5 Lazza]

"Funded by a £7m Government grant". I think that's the most relevant part of that article and explains why this is happening. Someone is getting a very nice pay-out to make sure it all goes ahead.

[Paul v8]

I wrote to the local mp and he said he can't do anything as is down to the council

But this stupid project starts in weeks

Is there anyway of stopping in time , no of signatures to a council
Be nice to view there evidence dos the lights

[Mr Tidy]

I have the misfortune of working in Bracknell and the time I spend getting there in rush-hour on weekdays is ridiculous - even if my destination is a typical Bracknell sh*t-hole near the tip (is there any other type of destination in Bracknell anyway)

But the planners keep telling business it has great transport links to the M3 and M4 but what they don't say is they are great any time after midnight and before 6 a.m.

For anyone out of the area please, please, please go anywhere else - Bracknell is a horrible, hateful, miserable place you don't want to visit more than once - less than once is ideal!

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[MX-5 Lazza]

LOL, great reply Mr Tidy

My Mrs worked there for a few years, only moving to Winsersh Triangle last year - that's another traffic nightmare but a different subject.
It used to take her almost as long to drive the 8 miles or so from Finchampstead to just off the Twin Bridges roundabout as it did for me to drive the 22 miles cross-country to Kingsclere!

[Paul v8]

Well after emailing the council few times got sent this link
http://www.bracknell-forest.gov.uk/strategiceconom...

[eybic]

There was a guy on the sports centre roundabout this evening with the cabinet open. The phasing seems to have changed

[bigdom]

There was a guy there yesterday morning in a high vis coat, even around 07.30 it was a fking joke. Left the office for a meeting around 09.45, going back towards M3, queuing solid from the broad lane roundabout back to it.

It was a poor junction before, although dangerous now. They should have reduced it in size, as traffic sits on it for the lights, or they just slow down (as they) assume the car behind knows they're turning right (why use indicators) rather than driving through the A322, cars are either emergency braking or diving across lanes with little thought or care. They will be a major accident soon.

[Challo]

bigdom said:

There was a guy there yesterday morning in a high vis coat, even around 07.30 it was a fking joke. Left the office for a meeting around 09.45, going back towards M3, queuing solid from the broad lane roundabout back to it.

It was a poor junction before, although dangerous now. They should have reduced it in size, as traffic sits on it for the lights, or they just slow down (as they) assume the car behind knows they're turning right (why use indicators) rather than driving through the A322, cars are either emergency braking or diving across lanes with little thought or care. They will be a major accident soon.

Its a very odd junction and the recent changes they have made over the past year seemed to have not worked to manage the traffic. Due to volume of cars on the A322 going through Bracknell traffic has always built up heading in both directions. They first put lanes onto the actual around to control the flow, but this made the traffic worse as the middle lanes allowed the cars to either turn right or go straight on, so often with cars not indicating meant you had to play a guessing game if the car would go straight on or round the roundabout causing big back logs.

With the lights included its trying to control the flow onto the roundabout, but its to small in size and if more than too cars want to head round the roundabout it causes traffic on the roundabout and cars trying to head straight through either have to quickly change lanes or get blocked.

[silverfoxcc]

Challo, those road markings were a joke. going south they had the innermost lane with a straight ahead and right arrow, thus making it three lanes into two, or even worse, frightening the st out of the guy in the middle lane ( also straight on and right) who was actually going right and got this tt across his bows.

[silent knight]

Paul v8 said:

Well after emailing the council few times got sent this link
http://www.bracknell-forest.gov.uk/strategiceconom...

I have had a look at this before and believe that the traffic modelling used to show that the traffic signal controlled option is flawed. The preferred solution may well work, but there is no way they can know this based on the traffic model presented. Firstly each of the lanes in the traffic model seems to be modelled as having traffic arriving at the stop line without being impeded, this is not going to be the case in their junction design as we know the road flares out from two lanes to the four (3 and 1 split) at the stop line. As the signals are on red these flared lanes will not get full utilisation, traffic wishing to use these lanes to turn will be blocked by the traffic going ahead along the A322, this will reduce the performance of the lanes of traffic turning right and left from the A322.

Secondly the traffic model only takes into account the new junction, I would be interested in how this new set of signals can be coordinated with the signal controlled roundabout next to Sainsburys.

[Mr Tidy]

silent knight said:

Secondly the traffic model only takes into account the new junction, I would be interested in how this new set of signals can be coordinated with the signal controlled roundabout next to Sainsburys.

From my experience of roundabouts with traffic lights in Bracknell they can't even co-ordinate the lights on one roundabout with other lights on the same one, so I would be amazed if co-ordinating lights on more than one roundabout with another has even been considered.

[omgus]

Mr Tidy said:

silent knight said:

Secondly the traffic model only takes into account the new junction, I would be interested in how this new set of signals can be coordinated with the signal controlled roundabout next to Sainsburys.

From my experience of roundabouts with traffic lights in Bracknell they can't even co-ordinate the lights on one roundabout with other lights on the same one, so I would be amazed if co-ordinating lights on more than one roundabout with another has even been considered.

I had a bad case of that on my way home this morning. Queued for 15 minutes to get through the Bagshot road South (the KFC Stretch) and then didn't need to stop again until i got to Camberley because there were no fking cars about at that time.

How can you make a roundabout so ineffective it has a traffic jam on one side yet there are no other fking cars using it.

fking prats!

[Paul v8]

This is just going to cause mayhem in few days when they start.
Bet some councillor is making few Bob off back of this project
Guessing they will reduce the speed way back down the road as well

Personally they should just cut the trees off the roundabout to help with visibility

[S5PJV]

Overnight, the trees from the roundabout have gone. Looks quite different already

[eybic]

S5PJV said:

Overnight, the trees from the roundabout have gone. Looks quite different already

I noticed that last night on my way home, I was driving towards it thinking "something's different" but I couldn't work out what

[SimesJH]

Looks better as you can now see across and there's more light.

Can't they just reduce the size of the roundabout and install traffic lights that work when needed, a bit like the A316 after the M3 finishes?

[Planet Claire]

Just a heads-up...
A couple of GATSO (I think) speed cameras were installed last night on the A322. One just after the Sainsbury's traffic lights/roundabout on the south bound. There's another on the northbound side just before you get to the Coral Reef roundabout. Apparently new speed limit is 40mph.

Found it...
http://www.bracknell-forest.gov.uk/coralreefjuncti...

[eybic]

[iva cosworth]

Planet Claire said:

Just a heads-up...
A couple of GATSO (I think) speed cameras were installed last night

There must be a sale currently on for Gatsos as some new ones have recently gone up in Croydon area.

Some have gone from the old larger squarish box which can be turned to face either direction,to twin smaller

boxes that face both directions at all times.