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Turn off 'intelligent' traffic lights plea



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Published Date:
07 October 2008
People have called for traffic lights at a busy Lancashire roundabout to be scrapped to ease rush hour congestion.
Businesses, commuters and residents claim Broughton roundabout at Preston is hitting trade and turning what should be simple journeys into hour-long nightmares.

There are calls for the so-called "intelligent" traffic lights, which are meant to adapt to the number of cars on the roads, to be turned off completely in a bid to get traffic moving again.

On Monday traffic chaos around the roundabout is thought to have contributed to heavy M6 traffic tailing right back to junction 29 at Bamber Bridge and from Garstang into the city.

Nicholas Watson, outgoing chief executive of Preston's Chamber of Trade, said: "For people in Preston it is certainly the most notorious roundabout in Lancashire and for people who come in and out of the city it is a pain they have to go through every morning and evening.

"I'm sure it affects businesses."

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mrsel,

preston 07/10/2008 14:26:38
One of the main contribitions to this traffic problem are the cars travelling in and out of the buildings at Fulwood Asda site...admittedly this is probably the afternoon that is most affected but this combined with huge housing developments such as Cottam all add to it. If new homes or offices are built then money needs to be spent on the road infrastructures. Look at the vast number of buildings up near Asda..little has changed in terms of roads but there must be well over 3000 extra people have started communting there in the past 10 years
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brigpnefan,

preston 07/10/2008 16:57:05
Good post mrsel,it needs a lot of money and thought into sorting that whole area out for the good of workers and residents.
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Pear,

07/10/2008 19:25:44
As someone who commutes to Blackpool and back everyday I've seen the root cause of this. Its not so much the M55 roundabout traffic lights that are the problem, more so the ones that are actually in Broughton with all the traffic backing up down Garstang Road, some times as far back as Moor Park. But the design of the roads is awful because Garstang Road can easily back up on to Eastway and render it useless.
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River,

08/10/2008 00:03:21
It's not the Fulwood Asda traffic that's doing it, it's all those Journo's driving to Oliver's Place.

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Brianjc,

broughton 08/10/2008 10:22:48
The root cause for traffic travelling south is the fact that the traffic lights on the roundabout control North travelling traffic and the 2 motorway exits. South travelling traffic going towards Preston are not light controlled and therefore cannot get onto the roundabout, and, as a consequence, the traffic backs up all the way through Broughton traffic lights. This would appear to be a problem even if the Broughton By-pass is built.
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I am Bonkers,

Preston 13/10/2008 11:47:10
A useful addition would be a slip road onto the M55 westbound from the roundabout behind the fire station. It would mean traffic heading that way from Tom Benson Way or Eastway wouldn't need to filter into the A6 at that hideous junction or even touch the main roundabout at all.
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Pear,

17/10/2008 19:32:41
A more use addition would be to build another junction further down (Woodplumpton) reducing the load on the other junction.

Although over the past few days I think the traffic situation had improved immeasurably !

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