Traffic lights may be turned off

[ragwert]

Herefordshire council are in talks with highways agency regarding the turning off of traffic lights at asda island and Newmarket st as part of a trial.

Discussions with highways agency could be as early as next month.

https://www.herefordtimes.com/news/17851764.council-consider-turning-off-traffic-lights-ease-congestion/

[Hereford Voice]

1 hour ago, ragwert said:

Herefordshire council are in talks with highways agency regarding the turning off of traffic lights at asda island and Newmarket st as part of a trial.

Discussions with highways agency could be as early as next month.

https://www.herefordtimes.com/news/17851764.council-consider-turning-off-traffic-lights-ease-congestion/

Yes, its bee na long time coming! Hopefully we will get our lights out trial!! 

[ragwert]

The lights on widemarsh st/link road & edgar st/link road also need seriously looking at,they can no longer be kept on a timed loop.

[H.Wilson]

Trail will be good if they can get it to happen 

[Paul Jones]

This is a brilliant idea and a no brainer, I cannot understand why it has not bee tried already.

[Alex]

Happy days

[Martin Cassini]

Hereford the Awake! 

At last, a city with individuals at the helm with the gumption and vision to challenge the dysfunctional traffic system and adopt a progressive, enlightened approach!

But beware. The rules of the road need changing. As currently misconceived, the rules promote neglect. How many drivers notice or stop for a mother with a toddler in a buggy waiting at the side of the road - the toddler at the optimum height to inhale the invisible toxic fumes that damage development and lodge in the brain, heart and bloodstream? It's nothing less than state-sponsored child abuse.

To recoin Orwell’s phrase: all road-users are equal - and should take it in turns - but some are more equal than others. Drivers should give way to vulnerable road-users: children, disabled, blind, pedestrians in general. Not only are they vulnerable, they are non-polluting road-users.

"No lights, equal rights" (Colin's phrase) sensitises drivers to the needs of others. When free to use our 'inner lights', we make decisions based on social protocol, rather than in blind obedience to a system that promotes abuse of our fellow humans. 

So in addition to deregulation, we need a programme of re-education. Also roadway redesign to express equality.

This can largely be achieved through public meetings, media, and subtle signage.

I look forward to working with John Harrington and helping make Hereford the first city to pioneer an enlightened, humane solution to most of its road safety problems, and many of its congestion problems.

[Colin James]

57 minutes ago, Martin Cassini said:

Hereford the Awake! 

At last, a city with individuals at the helm with the gumption and vision to challenge the dysfunctional traffic system and adopt a progressive, enlightened approach!

But beware. The rules of the road need changing. As currently misconceived, the rules promote neglect. How many drivers notice or stop for a mother with a toddler in a buggy waiting at the side of the road - the toddler at the optimum height to inhale the invisible toxic fumes that damage development and lodge in the brain, heart and bloodstream? It's nothing less than state-sponsored child abuse.

To recoin Orwell’s phrase: all road-users are equal - and should take it in turns - but some are more equal than others. Drivers should give way to vulnerable road-users: children, disabled, blind, pedestrians in general. Not only are they vulnerable, they are non-polluting road-users.

"No lights, equal rights" (Colin's phrase) sensitises drivers to the needs of others. When free to use our 'inner lights', we make decisions based on social protocol, rather than in blind obedience to a system that promotes abuse of our fellow humans. 

So in addition to deregulation, we need a programme of re-education. Also roadway redesign to express equality.

This can largely be achieved through public meetings, media, and subtle signage.

I look forward to working with John Harrington and helping make Hereford the first city to pioneer an enlightened, humane solution to most of its road safety problems, and many of its congestion problems.

Really happy to see something finally possibly happening with the new administration in Hereford. This lights out trial is long overdue. Hopefully we can also look at making some of the other traffic lights part-time in other words, turned off between 7pm-7am for example, pointless sitting on a red light at 3am when there are hardly any other vehicles around.