Traffic lights out at busy Southampton junction (From Daily Echo)
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Traffic lights out at busy Southampton junction
10:37am Wednesday 6th February 2013 in News
Traffic lights out at busy Southampton junction
Traffic lights have failed at a major Southampton junction.
The signals are down at the junction of Archers Road and Hill Lane due to an electrical fault, causing slow moving traffic during the morning rush hour.
A spokeswoman from Southampton City Council said: “It appears that yesterday evening both us and the Police were alerted to the fact that the signals kept going off and on again.
“An engineer went to the site and determined that it appeared to be an electrical controller fault and as it was a wet evening the safest action was to turn them completely off and bag them until a repair could be carried out in the morning.”
Engineers are in the process of repairing the lights.
Comments(12)
Lone Ranger.
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10:58am Wed 6 Feb 13
Taskforce 141
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12:07pm Wed 6 Feb 13
jimbobbo
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12:22pm Wed 6 Feb 13
bazzeroz
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2:16pm Wed 6 Feb 13
Zeo
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3:29pm Wed 6 Feb 13
wossit
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4:26pm Wed 6 Feb 13
Georgem
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5:10pm Wed 6 Feb 13
Lone Ranger. wrote:Indeed. In a lot of cases like this, "slow moving traffic" is an improvement.
....... And when the lights were switched back on traffic resumed to normal ....... with queues up Hill Lane, Archers Road and Howards Road
Georgem
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5:10pm Wed 6 Feb 13
Lone Ranger. wrote:Indeed. In a lot of cases like this, "slow moving traffic" is an improvement.
....... And when the lights were switched back on traffic resumed to normal ....... with queues up Hill Lane, Archers Road and Howards Road
wake up
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9:16pm Wed 6 Feb 13
Gozza1
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12:05pm Thu 7 Feb 13
wake up wrote:Given that "An engineer went to the site and determined that it appeared to be an electrical controller fault", what information do you have that the engineer in attendance didn't? Just because two lamps are out doesn't necessarily mean that they are the root cause.
seemed like the bulb for the red light on one side of the lights didnt work & the green bulb on the other side didnt work , ,, all it needed was 2 new light bulbs lol you cant make this stuff up , 2 blown bulbs baffled the electrician , the police & the councils highway officials lol HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE TO CHANGE 2 LIGHT BULBS ? answers on a postcard to your local highway agencies please.....
dand_uk
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6:28pm Thu 7 Feb 13
PLEASE turn these lights off permanently! Traffic flows without traffic lights and people can even cross the road without waiting 6minutes!
This is called using your brain and negotiating not blindly waiting for a green light! Please see the following youtube link to a town in chesire who have removed their traffic lights - and guess what - traffic flows smoother!!!!
http://www.youtube.c
om/watch?v=-vzDDMzq7
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Do it for better air quality and better sanity of local residents!
Cerdicjute says...
10:55am Wed 6 Feb 13