Amazon Traffic Lights
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-h...
Traffic lights installed by Amazon outside its warehouse are causing delays of up to an hour, it has been claimed.
The retail giant said it installed the three-way lights in Dunstable, Bedfordshire, for safety reasons.
But other workers in the area said the lights favoured Amazon workers and made congestion worse.
Central Bedfordshire Council said it was a "temporary measure" to benefit pedestrians.
Amazon's 310,000 sq ft (28,799 sq m) fulfilment centre opened in autumn 2015 with 500 permanent jobs.
Am I the only one thinking cheeky barstewards..
I'm sure lots of businesses would like that at the entrance to their spot for going home time.
Traffic lights installed by Amazon outside its warehouse are causing delays of up to an hour, it has been claimed.
The retail giant said it installed the three-way lights in Dunstable, Bedfordshire, for safety reasons.
But other workers in the area said the lights favoured Amazon workers and made congestion worse.
Central Bedfordshire Council said it was a "temporary measure" to benefit pedestrians.
Amazon's 310,000 sq ft (28,799 sq m) fulfilment centre opened in autumn 2015 with 500 permanent jobs.
Am I the only one thinking cheeky barstewards..
I'm sure lots of businesses would like that at the entrance to their spot for going home time.
They're only temporary lights.
The feckers at Astra Zeneca up here got 2 sets of permanent lights put up on an A road to help staff in and out of their site, 24 hr lights for 2 rush hours a day.
Then they shut the site down and the lights are still a permanent feature
Anyway back to topic what facilities have Amazon provided for trucks and drivers visiting their depot or do they expect vehicles to clutter up surrounding areas as usual due to poor planning conditions.
The feckers at Astra Zeneca up here got 2 sets of permanent lights put up on an A road to help staff in and out of their site, 24 hr lights for 2 rush hours a day.
Then they shut the site down and the lights are still a permanent feature
Anyway back to topic what facilities have Amazon provided for trucks and drivers visiting their depot or do they expect vehicles to clutter up surrounding areas as usual due to poor planning conditions.
speedyguy said:
The feckers at Astra Zeneca up here got 2 sets of permanent lights put up on an A road to help staff in and out of their site, 24 hr lights for 2 rush hours a day.
Then they shut the site down and the lights are still a permanent feature
If you raise that with your local authority and/or councillor they may remove or suspend them. Kind of what councillors are useful for.Then they shut the site down and the lights are still a permanent feature
speedyguy said:
They're only temporary lights.
The feckers at Astra Zeneca up here got 2 sets of permanent lights put up on an A road to help staff in and out of their site, 24 hr lights for 2 rush hours a day.
Then they shut the site down and the lights are still a permanent feature
Alderley Park?The feckers at Astra Zeneca up here got 2 sets of permanent lights put up on an A road to help staff in and out of their site, 24 hr lights for 2 rush hours a day.
Then they shut the site down and the lights are still a permanent feature
Swervin_Mervin said:
speedyguy said:
They're only temporary lights.
The feckers at Astra Zeneca up here got 2 sets of permanent lights put up on an A road to help staff in and out of their site, 24 hr lights for 2 rush hours a day.
Then they shut the site down and the lights are still a permanent feature
Alderley Park?The feckers at Astra Zeneca up here got 2 sets of permanent lights put up on an A road to help staff in and out of their site, 24 hr lights for 2 rush hours a day.
Then they shut the site down and the lights are still a permanent feature
Dunstable is ridiculous for things like this and stupid traffic management!
Let’s put 13 traffic lights in less than 1 mile on a route that takes traffic off the m1 when there’s problems, then when traffic people use the back roads to avoid the town centre they block roads to cause more traffic to go through the town centre!!
This particular problem has been cause by the stupid ‘ring road’ circling a petrol station!
They phase lights to cause traffic to stop you going that way, put traffic calming on hills with the give way to the wrong way.
They are utterly incompetent!!
Let’s put 13 traffic lights in less than 1 mile on a route that takes traffic off the m1 when there’s problems, then when traffic people use the back roads to avoid the town centre they block roads to cause more traffic to go through the town centre!!
This particular problem has been cause by the stupid ‘ring road’ circling a petrol station!
They phase lights to cause traffic to stop you going that way, put traffic calming on hills with the give way to the wrong way.
They are utterly incompetent!!
Vaud said:
speedyguy said:
The feckers at Astra Zeneca up here got 2 sets of permanent lights put up on an A road to help staff in and out of their site, 24 hr lights for 2 rush hours a day.
Then they shut the site down and the lights are still a permanent feature
If you raise that with your local authority and/or councillor they may remove or suspend them. Kind of what councillors are useful for.Then they shut the site down and the lights are still a permanent feature
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/
Andeh1 said:
Vaud said:
speedyguy said:
The feckers at Astra Zeneca up here got 2 sets of permanent lights put up on an A road to help staff in and out of their site, 24 hr lights for 2 rush hours a day.
Then they shut the site down and the lights are still a permanent feature
If you raise that with your local authority and/or councillor they may remove or suspend them. Kind of what councillors are useful for.Then they shut the site down and the lights are still a permanent feature
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/
They're also not really a problem
Swervin_Mervin said:
Or they won't at all because the lights are permanent and they are the highway authority's own lights. That and it's fully intended to reoccupy Alderley Park.
They're also not really a problem
They could suspend them rather than remove them, alter the timing so they are green only.They're also not really a problem
Vaud said:
Swervin_Mervin said:
Or they won't at all because the lights are permanent and they are the highway authority's own lights. That and it's fully intended to reoccupy Alderley Park.
They're also not really a problem
They could suspend them rather than remove them, alter the timing so they are green only.They're also not really a problem
Anyway, this is completely different to the situation the OP has posted. Those lights are temporary ones and, if anything like the situation we had up here at Airport City, they could be using them to figure out both timings for any permanent signals that are due to be installed, and also timings for the shift patterns at Amazon.
Edited by Swervin_Mervin on Monday 3rd December 09:31
Swervin_Mervin said:
And what would the people still working at Alderley Park do? They also will have changed the timings because it would have likely been operating with queue length loops - so if less traffic is queuing less green time is given.
Sorry I don't know the park, I had wrongly assumed that with Astra Zeneca going the park was empty - sorry - wasn't clear.Vaud said:
Swervin_Mervin said:
And what would the people still working at Alderley Park do? They also will have changed the timings because it would have likely been operating with queue length loops - so if less traffic is queuing less green time is given.
Sorry I don't know the park, I had wrongly assumed that with Astra Zeneca going the park was empty - sorry - wasn't clear.Swervin_Mervin said:
bimsb6 said:
vikingaero said:
Not sure what the problem is? Temporary lights can be thrown onto grass verges...
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