Rat-running and large vehicles (Bath St, Straiton Pl etc)

[Puerto bella]

So much for positive porty Mak. Sorry if we're boring you.
Boring - is when you have to wait in every feckin day for over a week for everyone and sundry to come at some point and survey the damage to your property from another feckin lorry. That's boring.

[Makaveli]

I was yawning at Epycats continual sniping at me about the fact that she has lived here longer than anyone else. I did not mean that your problem was boring. I have sympathy for your plight as I mentioned earlier in the thread we get large vehicles coming past our house that are not supposed too.

So please re-read Epycats last post and you will see what I am on about.

[seashell]

Careful there - I got bashed yesterday for making the same inadvertent mistake you did and spelling Epykat with a 'c'.

[SoupDragon]

I see the wall at the Miami flats car park has been hit, bits knocked off ( foot of Bath St opp. Espy )
They did have a notice up asking if anyone had seen it happen, last Sunday I believe.

[Grunk]

Absolutely ridiculous this morning, Portobello crossroads had a tailback all the way to Eastfield.

What happened to the idea of synching the pedestrian crossroads with the lights?

In fact all CEC need to do is change the order of the traffic lights so the main road goes after the green man, to ease the junction a little bit.

So frustrating.

[Makaveli]

I hate the lights at the townhall. There is no need for them and they cause traffic chaos. They need synced or removed.

[cuth]

The village of Poynton did away with their lights. You can see what happened here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vzDDMzq7d0

[wangi]

Thanks for that - very interesting. Everyone else - make sure you watch past the first few minutes and to the end...

Intriguing.

[Bob Jefferson]

Confirms what I've always believed and what we all witness when the traffic lights fail. Suddenly, people start using commonsense and courtesy. But it's not just about removing the lights. There is a lot of clever psychology at work here.

[Grunk]

Just watched the video, quite interesting.

The main thing, is that they had a good traffic designer/planner, I wonder if we can get one of those...