On 11 Feb 2007, at 16:21, Niall wrote: > Ok, explain Sherrifhall Roundabout, on the Edinburgh City Bypass. > Every > minor road crossing the bypass has a split level junction, except the > junction with the A7 and A68, which is a roundabout with traffic > lights. > Those lights are phased so that traffic is allowed onto the > roundabout from > one road, then stopped across the next, whose lights then go green, > before > the previous lot is allowed to exit. Result is that one vehicle > gets onto > the roundabout per light cycle. When the lights break down, the > "congestion" > disappears. There is no pedestrian access whatsoever. > Edinburgh Council is well known to be anti car. Coincidence? > This is the council whose congestion charging proposals were heavily > rejected in a referendum, and which is now introducing trams, > removed in the > first place for being inflexible and a major cause of congestion. They > refuse to put the tram question to a referendum, more or less > admitting it's > because they know they'd lose.
Well, I speak as I find in sunny SW England and from association in the day job with highway engineers. Maybe Edinburgh does it differently, but my [limited] recent experience of the city as a pedestrian/bus/taxi user suggests to me that the steps that have already been taken to reduce car use in the city centre have been beneficial. Sorry, George, I can't think of a way to get this post back OT. Baz
