£45m Liverpool City Centre Transport Scheme

[Bevan Price]

RE: £45m Liverpool City Centre Transport Scheme
The best thing they cpuld do with most of the traffic lights is to drive a bulldozer through them. Look at any traffic queue and observe how many of them originate at a set of unnecessary, or poorly phased traffic lights. Those in the Lime Street, St. Johns Lane & Queen Square areas could all be removed and replaced by a few zebra crossings. Also, they should get rid of all the pedestrian barriers in Queen Square, and allow 2 buses to use each stop simultaneously, instead of the 2nd having to wait ages whilst the 1st bus loads/unloads.

These actions would largely eliminate bus queues in this area. But of course, the "experts" in charge of roads will claim that they always know better, and everybody else is wrong.

And these problems are not just confined to Liverpool - in the past few years, there seems to have been a national fad that traffic lights solve most of the congestion problems and/or make things safer, whereas the opposite is often true. (e.g. how many times do you see people turning right after the lights are reverting to red, simply because it can be almost impossible to turn right in the "green" phase.)