on 4/22/05 10:26 AM, Tim Cutts at tjrc at sanger.ac.uk wrote: > > On 22 Apr 2005, at 10:03 am, Mary-Ann Johnson wrote: > >>> Can the parish council start a campaign for us to have permanent >>> roadworks on the high street? It's lovely and quiet, and what traffic >>> there is seems to be going much slower.. I don't want it to end. >> >> I've been amazed how quiet the traffic has been the last two mornings. >> I expected gridlock, like on Wednesday - where has it all gone? Are >> there really that many rat-runners normally, who are taking the long >> way round in the meantime? > > Looks like it. I don't know what can be done about it normally though, > without inconveniencing a significant number of people, such as people > from Milton who work in Ely (there must be some of those) or vice > versa. > > Tim How about traffic lights that are *very* biased to letting the traffic out of Milton in the morning between say 7:30 til 9:30 and either switch off or change to 50-50 bias at other times. or just make the road one-way in the morning, or better still a gate across the road with armed guards 24/7 and tank traps :-)