A regular
Gurnite reports that he engaged one of the Bear workers working by the Police
Station in some polite conversation this morning. He asked if it was possible to switch off the
traffic lights and control everything by manual control thus allowing the
traffic to run instead of the delays and hold ups currently being experienced. He was informed that his suggestion wouldn’t
be possible because regulations don’t allow for this and Bear have no one
qualified to carry out this function. Apparently, according to the
Bear man, Alba would need to supply someone who is qualified (The Gurn assumes
he meant Alba the traffic management solutions company, details of some of the
services they provide here).
Our regular
makes the following plea “Come on Bear!
Switch ALL the lights off from Leopold St Tradespark Road
It would seem to be a case of rules is rules and common sense doesn't come into it. So the chaos
continues……..
Thanks to Dave
Shillabeer for the photos.
Does anyone know what they are doing anyway?
ReplyDeleteDoes anyone know what they are doing to the road?
ReplyDeleteThe key question to the whole problem. Apparently to lay a cable from the lights on the car park side to the Police Station side. But why wasn't this done when the lights were replaced? Did someone forget? This is not the only location apparently. Something for our elected to get their teeth into!
ReplyDeleteWell Nairn is famed for cuts traffic lights so why complain. The normal fixed traffic lights were even put there by choice!
ReplyDeleteThey obviously require a qualified stopologist !
ReplyDeleteas usual,roads dug up during golf weeks,and,were we not told that no works would be done during said weeks,isnt that why the old community centre eyesore isnt gone yet.
ReplyDeletetypical crap from council offices
narook
He's right in that Alba will have set up the temporary lights (they have the required qualifications to do so) and presumably none of the BEAR operatives on site have the appropriate qualifications to run them on manual. The issue is the fact that BEAR are not prepared to pay Alba to operate the lights. As for the permanent lights being switched off, that's a different matter entirely.
ReplyDelete"You would be surprised at how tolerant MOST drivers are about letting people out into the main stream of traffic"
ReplyDeleteSounds like someone who doesn't drive in rush hour periods, when many drivers are happy to block the yellow boxes, junctions, and roundabouts, just to prevent someone else getting in and slowing their journey by a couple of seconds. :)
Do we really have a whole rush hour period in Nairn? Maybe we should all start working flex time to beat the congestion
ReplyDeleteSo they switch the lights off. Some folk are never happy
ReplyDeleteDon't get me going!
ReplyDeleteSwitch the lights off. Switch all the lights off!
ReplyDeleteBack in the good old days of Nairn Council, we didn't need traffic lights to nanny us through the town. More example of interference from outside Nairn.
No no, we need the lights on or poor old Brian T will never get home
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