"Fod" wrote in message
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John Rowland wrote:
I have noticed that a number of traffic lights have long phases late at
night.

I've seen a lot of tempary ones that work fine during the day but oddly
seem to get fixed to red at night when the workers have gone home. I'd
suspect they can be setup by the workers with whatever delay is
required and kids sometimes can get in and fiddle with em.

There was one near me that was red from friday night to midday sunday
before the police noticed/were informed and turned it off.

If I can see to the other side of those temp ones (often they are for all of
about 10 metres) I'll go through them anyway (if its clear) same as
overtaking a parked bus really! Bloody things...

"JamesB" wrote in message
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John Rowland wrote:
I have noticed that a number of traffic lights
have long phases late at night.

If I can see to the other side of those temp ones
(often they are for all of about 10 metres)
I'll go through them anyway (if its clear) same as
overtaking a parked bus really! Bloody things...

When road works reduced my (straight) road to one lane, they put temporary
lights on it for a week, even though my road is habitually reduced to one
lane by parked cars anway.

--
John Rowland - Spamtrapped
Transport Plans for the London Area, updated 2001
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acro...69/tpftla.html
A man's vehicle is a symbol of his manhood.
That's why my vehicle's the Piccadilly Line -
It's the size of a county and it comes every two and a half minutes

"John Rowland" wrote in message
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SNIP

When road works reduced my (straight) road to one lane, they put temporary
lights on it for a week, even though my road is habitually reduced to one
lane by parked cars anway.

--
John Rowland

I thought nearly ALL roads in Harrow were reduced to a single lane by parked
cars !!
Baz

"JamesB" wrote in message
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If I can see to the other side of those temp ones (often they are for all
of about 10 metres) I'll go through them anyway (if its clear) same as
overtaking a parked bus really!

Except that it is legal safely to overtake a parked bus, but, contrary to
popular belief, you are breaking the law by going through the red at
temporary traffic lights.

Colin Bignell