Remember the hell that was the Hanger lane gyratory ? Caused havoc and filled any driver with dread if they had to use it ?!Xac wrote:I thought he had! I remember seeing something about the "green wave" with traffic lights so that as long as you stuck to the speed limit you'd either hit none or one set of red lights, a brilliant idea which I've never experienced, as it would seem Ken broke the wave.
Well, about 8 years ago, after the local authority had embarked on yet another hugely expensive scheme in an effort to resolve the problem, a traffic engineer working on the project was sitting having his lunch and just happened to be reviewing the original traffic light sequencing strategy for the area.
He noticed that the lights didn't seem to conform to the plan so he instigated a conformity check.
They discovered that the lights had never been set up correctly to conform to the original strategy !!!
So, the lights were re-configured and the original plan adjusted to take account of increased & traffic flow over the years and bingo, Hanger lane was transformed into driving bliss !!
I actually didn't believe this could have been such a transformation but having experienced Hanger Lane at it's worst when I spent time in London some years ago I went back to see for myself when down there a couple of years after seeing this program and it was indeed amazing !!
There was virtually no congestion !
Just how much more of the congestion problems in London are due to issues like this ??!!