John Fareham and
John Abbott report that Hull City Council are looking to replace the telemetry
system controlling the city’s traffic lights.
We have for some
time been concerned about the ability or otherwise of local traffic lights to
react adequately to the rise and fall in demand for the ability to pass through
a given set of lights. This applies in particular to streets such as Fairfax Avenue
which – largely because both the old Guildhall parties say one thing about the
ring road when in opposition and quite another when in office – remain
overladen with traffic because they are still part of the ring road. The new
technology will be able to fiddle automatically with the traffic light settings
to accommodate faster traffic and to call up the offer of a right turn if it
senses the demand for it. When we have more information about this we will of
course pass it on.
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