On 2013\03\20 11:37, d wrote:
On Tue, 19 Mar 2013 17:17:13 +0000
Robin9 wrote:
d;136593 Wrote:
So there's already pressure on thames river crossings in the east and
TfL just go and make it even worse. Seriously, there should be a medal
for
an organisation this stupid.
It isn't stupidity. It's malice and mischievousness, and it has been
since TfL was first established.

I wouldn't put it beyond the bounds of reason to assume that causing
gridlock is a cynical way of getting people onto public transport. And
hence more money in TfLs coffers.

Some or all of the traffic light system is definitely designed to
prevent traffic flow rather than aid it, even in places where there are
essentially no pedestrians (the slow lights at the junction of Montague
Street and Russell Square can have no other explanation).

On 2013-03-20 11:44:29 +0000, Basil Jet said:

Some or all of the traffic light system is definitely designed to
prevent traffic flow rather than aid it, even in places where there are
essentially no pedestrians (the slow lights at the junction of Montague
Street and Russell Square can have no other explanation).

Indeed - they are out to get us, if not by sedation in the water supply
by traffic lights.

E.

On 2013\03\20 12:04, eastender wrote:
On 2013-03-20 11:44:29 +0000, Basil Jet said:

Some or all of the traffic light system is definitely designed to
prevent traffic flow rather than aid it, even in places where there
are essentially no pedestrians (the slow lights at the junction of
Montague Street and Russell Square can have no other explanation).

Indeed - they are out to get us, if not by sedation in the water supply
by traffic lights.

Deviated prevert.

In article ,
Basil Jet wrote:
On 2013\03\20 12:04, eastender wrote:
On 2013-03-20 11:44:29 +0000, Basil Jet said:

Some or all of the traffic light system is definitely designed to
prevent traffic flow rather than aid it, even in places where there
are essentially no pedestrians (the slow lights at the junction of
Montague Street and Russell Square can have no other explanation).

Indeed - they are out to get us, if not by sedation in the water supply
by traffic lights.

Deviated prevert.

Oh, stop worrying.

Nick
--
"The Internet, a sort of ersatz counterfeit of real life"
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In article ,
(Basil Jet) wrote:

On 2013\03\20 11:37, d wrote:
On Tue, 19 Mar 2013 17:17:13 +0000
Robin9 wrote:
d;136593 Wrote:
So there's already pressure on thames river crossings in the east and
TfL just go and make it even worse. Seriously, there should be a medal
for an organisation this stupid.
It isn't stupidity. It's malice and mischievousness, and it has been
since TfL was first established.

I wouldn't put it beyond the bounds of reason to assume that causing
gridlock is a cynical way of getting people onto public transport. And
hence more money in TfLs coffers.

Some or all of the traffic light system is definitely designed to
prevent traffic flow rather than aid it, even in places where there
are essentially no pedestrians (the slow lights at the junction of
Montague Street and Russell Square can have no other explanation).

Those are a serious pain to me as a cyclist on occasion.

Colin Rosenstiel

The Russell Square abomination is a first class example of what I have in
several previous posts described as "sabotaging of London's road system"
by TfL, in this case with the full cooperation of Camden Council.

Before TfL, when London's Red Routes were controlled by The Department of
Transport, there was a gyratory system round Russell Square and only one
set of traffic lights. The whole route from Euston Station to the Aldwych
and across Waterloo Bridge was a good, fairly free flowing road. Then TfL
decided to ruin it and, of course, install numerous new traffic lights plus a
conflicting traffic flow.

I must admit it hadn't occurred to me that cyclists too are inconvenienced by
TfL's vandalism. Thank you for that.

I long for the day when at last London has a Mayor who has the guts, the
brains and the sense of responsibilty to sack some of the top people at TfL
and to replace them with staff who will undo the enormous damage done over
the past thirteen years.

Just kerbed the alloys of my 4 week old Audi A5 entering the Rotherhithe tunnel. Where do I live? Just around the corner off Rotherhithe Street!