Has anyone else noticed that the traffic light phasing has been changed on Sydenham Road, at the juntion of Newlands Park?
If you're driving downhill from Cobbs corner, the right filter arrow now doesn't show. Usually when the filter arrow shows, the green man lights up to let you cross the second part of the crossing, by Aldlife/Selims Kebabs. This isn't happening. The amount of traffic coming down between Cobbs Corner and the Post Office has now doubled before the lights turn red outside Snappy Snaps.
It's now taking us twice as long to cross the road!
Does anyone know what's happening? Is it something to do with the roadworks?
Please let me know who to contact to sort this out - we're now resorting to crossing at the zebra on the railway bridge.
Sydenham Road Traffic Light phasing
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I've been told it's a TFL responsibilty. I've reported the fault online:
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/roadusers/rep ... fault.aspx
The more people do so, hopefully the sonner it will be fixed. I've seen older children risking their lives crossing between traffic, as clearly the pedestrians don't get a chance to cross, now.
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/roadusers/rep ... fault.aspx
The more people do so, hopefully the sonner it will be fixed. I've seen older children risking their lives crossing between traffic, as clearly the pedestrians don't get a chance to cross, now.
Are you kidding?Paddy Pantsdown wrote:That's why I (and most other pedestrians/cyclists?) prefer zebra crossings.
At least a pelican crossing or a junction with pedestrian signals gives the poor pedestrian a chance to cross whilst traffic is stopped by a red light, with the added threat of cameras being placed there to enforce those red lights at particularly accident-prone junctions.
Car drivers, and to an even greater extent, cyclists, completely ignore zebra crossings as and when they feel like it, or move off before pedestrians have finished crossing.
I'd take a pelican crossing over a zebra crossing any day.