OT - scary junction

That's mad... but notice how there's never any jam building up. The traffic flows constantly... I like it :-)

Os

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Something we used to notice a lot in Hounslow. Whenever the lights failed the traffic just sorted itself out and the queues went away. The traffic engineers in the council had all sorts of reasons why this wasn't acceptable....

it's normal driving, like sitting in a traffic jam on the m25 is normal here :)

heh.

When I saw the subject, I instantly thought it was a 'pinking' Peter post ;-)

SteveH ( snipped-for-privacy@italiancar.co.uk) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

I was about to post that exact same thing...

In message , Guy King writes

That was entertaining :)

There was a similar 7 way junction in Sardinia about 20 years ago before they spoiled it by installing traffic lights. I did see something in the news last year that a town in Holland had removed all traffic lights and priority markings at junctions because they found that with no one having right of way, everyone was more careful and there were less accidents. Can't see it working here though.

Right of way in order of vehicle mass, such perfect logic has to work. It's the absence of arm waving and V-signs for close calls that most surprises me.

IIRC theres some council somewhere thinking of trynig it. Makes perfect sense to me, well i think there should still be warning signs that junctions are there but if there were less lights and more confusion thered be less speed and more care taken. Or lots of natural selection.

might is right as far as India is concerned if you are in a bus and get hit by a car, you will not feel it, but the car driver will be dead same with everything over there really, the more you have, theeasier it is to cut your way through everyone else, be it vehicle, property, or even financial

Does India have tax discs or a Top Trump card with highlighted kerb weight taped to the windscreen?

you'd be lucky to have a car insured :) everyone just drives around thinking that they will get hit and not bothering to avoid it if they are in a big rig, the little guys tend to get out of the way ebcause otherwise they'd be dead :)

And don't forget that a sizeable majority believe totally in reincarnation so getting squished is only a temporary inconvenience..