Speed limit reductions...anywhere else getting polluted with these new limits/signs?

[TW]Fox;18981750 said:
The one that winds me up is the one at the end of the M50. Huge sweeping roundabout - usually empty. You used to be able to take it at 60-70mph with plenty of visibility.

Now I need to slow down, stop, realise its clear, then pull out and accelerate back up to 70mph to join the M5.

GO GO CARBON EMISSIONS.
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The fences are almost as annoying as the people who take the third exit from the left hand lane just to make it slightly more of a death defying experience to go through junctions.
 
I'm sure i saw something a few eyars ago about there being a DfT policy to actively increase congestion.

Hence all the "badly" placed bus stops (where the bus blocks the lane instead of pulling in to a bus stop), decreased visibility and traffic lights on roundabouts (causing vehicles to stop for no reason), narrowed "give way" sections (two lane road with a single lane section introduced giving priority to traffic travelling in one direction), etc, etc.

Can't for the life of me remember why they were doing it though.
 
How about the constant replacing of roundabouts (which have minus carbon emissions due to the trees and grasses planted on them) with traffic lights. Traffic lights which are on ALL THE TIME. Which do not have sensors, which are timed despite the fact that from one direction (which is timed at the same minute green as the other 3) has approx 1 car per hour.

Traffic lights cost carbon to manufacture, and cost a LOT to keep running. They also increase carbon for cars which now have to stop, as opposed to not having to stop as before. The fact that they are also programmed by idiots means I HATE THEM.
 
PhillyDee said:
How about the constant replacing of roundabouts (which have minus carbon emissions due to the trees and grasses planted on them) with traffic lights. Traffic lights which are on ALL THE TIME. Which do not have sensors, which are timed despite the fact that from one direction (which is timed at the same minute green as the other 3) has approx 1 car per hour.

Traffic lights cost carbon to manufacture, and cost a LOT to keep running. They also increase carbon for cars which now have to stop, as opposed to not having to stop as before. The fact that they are also programmed by idiots means I HATE THEM.
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This country must have the messiest, most retarded junctions in the world. Every one seems to have been 'upgraded' countless times, every time doing the bare minimum they can to cope with current traffic levels, only for them to get clogged up immediately after the upgrade :mad:.

Like this
And this

The second one obviously needs a flyover, but they've left it so late now that they'll never be able to build it! They're repeating the same mistake a few miles down the road as well.
 
I came home from Uni to find they've added traffic lights to the roundabout at the junction of the A69 and the A1 in Newcastle for apparantly no other reason than to cause longer tailbacks at rush hour then normal.

There's also a section of the A1 between the Angel and the Metro Centre that they've downgraded from NSL to 50 mph, again for no reason that I can see.
 
lawz said:
I came home from Uni to find they've added traffic lights to the roundabout at the junction of the A69 and the A1 in Newcastle for apparantly no other reason than to cause longer tailbacks at rush hour then normal.

There's also a section of the A1 between the Angel and the Metro Centre that they've downgraded from NSL to 50 mph, again for no reason that I can see.
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Yeah, I saw that the other week on my way to the valley. Seems pointless! Espeically as its a downhill stretch!
 
Whats even worse if you are having a bit of a hoon, overtake someone safely enough and for them to put their high beams on straight away and leave them on. Idiots, yeah because thats safer.
 
The 20mph Eco Zones are the most retarded.

I suspect a lot of cars would be far more efficient traveling at 30mph, or they'd be put in the wrong gear if this is not the case.
 
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