Why? Traffic Lights

[ED Light]

Why on earth are there traffic lights managing these roadworks?

Outside JAGS school on East Dulwich Grove.

1) adding chaos to an already chaotic area given recent traffic changes.

It added 20mins of travel time the other night.

2) the works are encroaching the carriageway by a MAXIMUM half a meter. All it needs is a couple of cones.

Who decides this stuff?? - and signs off the budget?

[Zig-Zag]

Agree, it's ridiculous. They encrouch about 6 inches.

[Sally Eva]

To allow pedestrians to socially distance?

Zig-Zag Wrote:

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> Agree, it's ridiculous. They encrouch about 6

> inches.

[northernmonkey]

There was a leak there and Thames water fixed it but need to come back to finish off the road repair apparently - but have done nothing all week.

[Penguin68]

It used to be that councils would prevail on utilities to clear roadworks, but now Southwark at least relishes anything which will further disrupt traffic. Or that's the way it seems.

[Rockets]

To give Cllr Newens credit she has been chasing Thames Water via her twitter feed as she highlights the fact that nothing has been happening and it has been causing disruption.

Thames Water replied to her original tweet that: "We'll be unable to remove the barriers until the permanent reinstatement has been applied and had a few days to settle because of safety concerns".

[ED Light]

It was cleared this morning - I love the coincidence and irony it was cleared the day of lockdown when there ?should? be less traffic on the road. Keep smiling

[Abe_froeman]

Do you sometimes get the impression that some of these councillors just rub people up the wrong way and make things worse?

[Dogkennelhillbilly]

Penguin68 Wrote:

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> It used to be that councils would prevail on

> utilities to clear roadworks, but now Southwark at

> least relishes anything which will further disrupt

> traffic. Or that's the way it seems.

Conspiracy theories abound.

[redpost]

perhaps you should drive through the barriers, then you can moan about the sinkhole that collapsed and swallowed your car?

ED Light Wrote:

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> Why on earth are there traffic lights managing

> these roadworks?

>

> Outside JAGS school on East Dulwich Grove.

>

> 1) adding chaos to an already chaotic area given

> recent traffic changes.

> It added 20mins of travel time the other

> night.

>

> 2) the works are encroaching the carriageway by a

> MAXIMUM half a meter. All it needs is a couple of

> cones.

>

> Who decides this stuff?? - and signs off the

> budget?

[ED Light]

That?s pleasant, thanks

redpost Wrote:

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> perhaps you should drive through the barriers,

> then you can moan about the sinkhole that

> collapsed and swallowed your car?

>

>

> ED Light Wrote:

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> > Why on earth are there traffic lights managing

> > these roadworks?

> >

> > Outside JAGS school on East Dulwich Grove.

> >

> > 1) adding chaos to an already chaotic area

> given

> > recent traffic changes.

> > It added 20mins of travel time the other

> > night.

> >

> > 2) the works are encroaching the carriageway by

> a

> > MAXIMUM half a meter. All it needs is a couple

> of

> > cones.

> >

> > Who decides this stuff?? - and signs off the

> > budget?