County Road-National Avenue junction equipment

John Fareham and John Abbott report that the Council have introduced new video stop line detecting equipment at the junction of County Road North and National Avenue in order to aid the flow of vehicles through the traffic lights.

The device has been funded by the corporate centre, which is a pleasant change, but as such equipment is not normally kept on hand they thought it would need to be ordered until a contractor found one in stock. The device “looks” at the carriageway and when it “sees” the picture change it “knows” a vehicles is there and tells the traffic lights to change. This is believed by the officers to be the most beneficial option in terms of resolving the problems with the lights not changing when they should. It is hoped that these changes will resolve the problems that have been experienced with vehicles pulling up at the wrong distance from the lights. It remains to be seen whether that will be the case but if it is not, local residents will be welcome to report any difficulties to us; as happened when this matter was first drawn to our attention, we will only be too happy to refer those problems to the officers as well.