One of our readers reports it took 40 minutes to get from Tradespark to the Waverley Road junction around 11.30 this morning. Our correspondent tells us that her destination was Broad Hill but she went and parked in Queens Park and walked over instead so as to get there today.
Another gurnite tells us that, since the pedestrian crossing lights at the bottom of the brae are covered up with a sign indicating that you should go to the crossing at the Merryton lights, he has concerns that children on their way home from school will ignore this and cross at the normal place regardless of the lights being temporarily out of use. A manual stop-go operation is in use on St Ninian Road but when the pictures were taken tailbacks from Merryton/Lochloy meant that nothing was moving through the stop/go signs for a while. Queues are also forming from Leopold Street back onto the High Street too as motorists try to take a short cut.
Take care out there today. The only rat run that maybe of use during the roadworks would be the Cawdor - Auldearn route.
Take care out there today. The only rat run that maybe of use during the roadworks would be the Cawdor - Auldearn route.
Individual images here.
6 comments:
who and what are they up to now!
The 'works promoter' is Scottish Gas Networks
http://www.roadworksscotland.org/ExtendedDetails.aspx?key=013651650000
since the pedestrian crossing lights at the bottom of the brae are covered up with a sign indicating that you should go to the crossing at the Merryton lights, he has concerns that children on their way home from school will ignore this and cross at the normal place regardless of the lights being temporarily out of use.
I am surprised any of them know what a crossing is in my experience they just tend to swarm down a road.
The manual stop go boards should work better than lights at reducing delays, as in theory they respond faster and can react to local conditions - i.e. use a bit of common sense, but it wasn't working today !
The queues in the opposite direction were still a pain but not nearly as bad. The blokes operating the boards could see the obvious queue back through Lochloy junction and would have prioritised that, but would have been unaware of how long the queues were heading East. I wonder if they reported the delays to Transport Scotland (as they are legally required once over 15 minutes delay is recorded).
we were promised there would be no,ot little hold ups with the new lights,huh another broken promise, GET RID OF THE BLOODY LIGHTS NOW,and put in mini roundabouts,im sure they work better than lights and less hold ups
narook.
we were promised there would be no,or little hold ups with the new lights,huh another broken promise, GET RID OF THE BLOODY LIGHTS NOW,and put in mini roundabouts,im sure they work better than lights and less hold ups
narook.
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