Traffic Management: politics & ideology defeat logic. News?!

[Wills2]

Jasandjules said:

OpulentBob said:

As for the whole Policy thing of making the experience of using a car awful, that is just paranoia. Look at the number of cars we as a nation have to fit in the available space. But no, it's deliberate, and they're all out to get you, specifically you, to make your driving experience awful.

Well, let's consider a few things.

1. Speed limits on perfectly good roads are being reduced.
2. Speed cameras then appear by magic upon those roads
3. Roundabouts get traffic lights put on them, which then means you get stuck in the wrong lane on the roundabout
4. Roundabouts get zebra crossings and traffic lights on the exits. This means people have to stop hard and fast on the roundabout which blocks it
5. Parking spaces for new property is being reduced
6. Traffic lights now have a significantly higher time on red
7. Many lovely routes in my area are being turned into bus/taxi lanes. Meaning the rest of us have to travel a couple of miles further
8. Speed humps everywhere
9. Many traffic lights now have cycle priority boxes in front, meaning the lycra tw**s block the whole road and when the lights go green, no f***er can actually move off at speed and get going because lycra wa***er is swerving around.


Those are just to be getting on with...... I have more.....

Indeed I love it when these people post to tell us that our daily experience of their road planning and policy is incorrect, it's all better look I have a 200 page document telling me so!

[oyster]

Jasandjules said:

OpulentBob said:

9. Many traffic lights now have cycle priority boxes in front, meaning the lycra tw**s block the whole road and when the lights go green, no f***er can actually move off at speed and get going because lycra wa***er is swerving around.

I have NEVER seen a lycra clad cyclist hold up a car at traffic lights. I do however see lots of old dears at the front holding up lots of other cars.

[turbobloke]

oyster said:

I have NEVER seen a lycra clad cyclist hold up a car at traffic lights. I do however see lots of old dears at the front holding up lots of other cars.

I've had to attend meetings in London at clients' offices and given the parlous and unreliable nature of both road and rail travel in this country I tend to arrive early on those days when the delays aren't severe. Preferring the good clean air of London Town I tend to remain outdoors rather than sit in a reception area, given that the average indoor air in a UK building is ten times more polluted than urban outdoor air, and many junctions have traffic lights where a herd of cyclists will block the entire road width waiting for green with or without a little red box painted at considerable expense just for them. It happens exactly as described, nobody in a vehicle can get going while the pedalers try to get going. Not all are lycra clad, there are some serious two wheel warriors in everyday garb. It may not be quite the same in some other towns and cities.