On 22/04/05 14:12 tony at lambord.freeserve.co.uk wrote: >>"Paul Oldham" <paul at the-hug.org> wrote: >> >>I think this will be worse when the A10/A14 roundabout is upgraded. They >> plan to do away with the traffic lights at our entry onto the >>roundabout, entry to the roundabout is meant to be regulated by lights >>further back around the roundabout. The parish council remains unconvinced. > > I presume its backed up by some simulations of traffic flow (plus the exact > timing can be tuned). Yup. They're claiming that they can phase the lights at the previous junction where the A10 joins the roundabout so that there will be gaps in the flow during which traffic from Milton can get out. I'm sure they can however we're back to headology again: people are going to think "hey, if I go through Milton I miss a set of traffic lights". That's the factor I don't think they've allowed for. So it will work very well outside the rush hour, but I fear it will increase the length of the queue through the village in the morning. > But as the main point of the lights is to cause a delay, it doesn't > seem much like progress to be stuck with them for 24 hours. Actually the main point of some of the lights is safety, especially those for the slip coming off the A14 from Histon up onto the roundabout, but they're meant to be solving that issue as part of the works they're about to do. -- Paul