(23 Dec 2023, 12:12 pm)Storx wrote
Gannon is head of the JCTA or whatever it's called this week and councillors most certainly do control the highways, they approve them or not excluding the A1, A19 and A184/A194(M) in between. It's their budget and they're the ones keep wasting it on awful traffic light schemes which make it worse for everyone. The same schemes that Rome could be built quicker.
Qualified transport and highway engineers design them, not councillors.
“Awful traffic light schemes” are usually required to improve life for those with the highest priority in the transport hierarchy: pedestrians, cyclists and public transport users, because at the end of the day we need sustainable and active travel options to be more appealing.
Speeding up and making private car journeys more attractive is the last thing we want.