"Ian F." wrote in message


Clearly, I stand corrected.

Orthopedic shoes?

"S.P." wrote in message
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Orthopedic shoes?

LOL


Ian

Richard J. wrote:
John Rowland wrote:
Anthony R. Gold wrote:
On Fri, 29 Sep 2006 03:08:18 +0100, "John Rowland"
wrote:

I have been assured by someone who lives in Brompton that the
traffic lights all over what will soon be the Western Extension of
the congestion charging area seem to have been recently modified
to create lots of traffic jams that weren't there before. This is
the same thing that was widely alleged to have been done in the
central area prior to introducing congestion charging there.

Dunno what or where "Brompton" is, but if it's around Brompton
Cross SW3 then those lights are managed by the borough (RBK&C) which
opposes the extension and has no incentive to exaggerate
the success of the scheme.

The person in question lives in Brompton Square, and although I'm
not sure exactly which traffic lights they had in mind, Brompton
Square is just off the A4, whose traffic lights are controlled by
TfL.

Note that ALL traffic lights in London are managed by Transport for
London, whether they are on a TfL road or a borough road, so if any
rephasing has been done, it's been done by TfL which reports to Ken
Livingstone.
--

Indeed. This TfL Street Management page [1] explains that "TfL owns and
maintains all of London's 4,700 sets of traffic signals".

When TfL was formed it took over the Traffic Control Systems Unit
(TCSU), which was part of the Corporation of London but reported to the
Secretary of State for Transport. In turn I understand the TCSU came
into being to manage London's traffic lights when the GLC - who had
previously done the job - were abolished in 1985. See [2] for a webpage
that mentions these old arrangements. You'll still find mention of the
TCSU on many manhole covers near traffic lights.

For those who're interested TfL Streets says that "over half of these
[traffic signals] can be adjusted from the LTCC through the Urban
Traffic Control (UTC) system".


[1] http://www.tfl.gov.uk/streets/dtm/signals.shtml

[2] http://www.consulting-uk.com/casestudyprint.htm?id=29