I’ve not had a traffic related rant in a while, so I thought it was about time I vented my frustrations once again through this blog.
This time I’m talking about the very pathetic Lightfoot Lane Garstang Road traffic lights.
My God they’re annoying.
Seriously, when you’re on a job and you have another customer waiting, every red light you come to is a curse, especially if you’re running a little late.
But imagine if you’re there driving down Garstang Rd, only for the lights ahead to turn red and sweet nothing (can I get away with FA Editors?) to come out from Lightfoot Lane.
Honestly it’s infuriating. I can handle stopping at red lights for other traffic, but stopping at red lights for absolutely nothing, not a car, not a bike, not a pedestrian, really really gets my back up.
It’s not just them lights that do this; last night I was stopped at red traffic lights in Chorley on the A6 near to the hospital and not a single vehicle came through the green light.
So I beg the question… why in this day and age of modern technology do we have pathetic traffic lights that are on a 24 hour timer?
Motion sensors have been around for donkey’s years, so why the hell can’t they fit them onto traffic lights and let them change from red to green when a vehicle approaches?
There are loads of lights on these stupid timers; seriously, the amount of lorries I see creeping through red lights in and around Preston is crazy. Something needs to be done and it’s not rocket science what.
FIT MOTION SENSORS!!!
Living in the area, I can sympathise here, its time consuming and costly enough – not just for taxi drivers but customers too. Its almost 2011, you’d have hoped for a more effective solution by now!
Hi Lindsey, thanks for your comment. You wouldn’t happen to be Lindsey who uses my taxi services?
Motion sensors is not what modern day traffic lights use, it is in-fact coils in the road leading up to the lights (you know, those shiny black lines in the tarmac in strange patterns) that detect a magnetic field change when something large and metal (such as a car) drives over them.
That’s why, if you have a moped (which is often too small/plastic for it to change the magnetic field enough) or just want to make sure you’re definitely getting recognised, just place a few small Neodymium magnet’s underneath your vehicle and you’ll breeze right on through.