I've heard that TfL control all of the traffic lights in London... would
that include the one in Beechcroft Rd SW17?
The road is wide enough for two lanes of traffic, but it has been
deliberately narrowed by barriers to one lane, and rather than give one
direction priority (as they usually do when they deliberately narrow the
road to one lane) they have installed traffic lights to alternate the flow.
If Boris wants to retime lights to reduce congestion, he could retime this
installation to the scrapyard.

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John Rowland wrote:

In the sense that they'll have installed them and programmed them. The
borough will have decided what to install where.

Persistent speeding problem, and a couple of head-ons before the lights
went in?

I suggest you ask the borough what it's there for.

Colin McKenzie

On 16 Sep, 10:01, Colin McKenzie proof-read.co.uk> wrote:

In essence, yes, though it depends upon whether the road is controlled
by the Borough or by TfL. TfL is responsible for major roads
throughout Greater London - what was originally known as the Greater
London Road Network (GLRN) but is now known as the TfL Road Network
(TLRN) - these can all be easily identified as they're all Red Routes.
All other public roads (apart from Motorways, which are the domain of
the Highways Authority) are the responsibility of the Boroughs.

John Rowland wrote:

As others have said, TfL maintains all 6000-ish sets of lights on public
roads* in London. It directly controls about half of these from a central
computer system, which coordinates adjacent sets of lights, alters timings
according to time of day, day of the week and so on.

The remaining sets are autonomous, but TfL does set up the phases and
timings and can alter them (on site) as required.

Peter

* ie those where the highway authority is TfL, one of the boroughs or the
City of London. There are a few roads in London where the highway
authority is none of these (eg in the Royal Parks) and if there are any
traffic lights on those, I'm not sure who controls them.

Peter Campbell Smith wrote:

Hyde Park contains one lights which I believe is synchronised with the
adjacent one in Kensington Road, and so is probably controlled by TfL.
Regents Park contains two traffic light controlled junctions, and at least
one light-controlled pedestrian crossing.

On Sep 16, 9:15 am, "John Rowland"
journeyflow.spamspam.demon.co.uk> wrote:

Check if they've installed any CCTV or traffic light cameras nearby.
If not then just ignore the lights next time if you have a clear road
ahead. I do it all the time with roadworks traffic lights if the
traffic is light.

B2003

On Sep 17, 12:37 pm, "John Rowland"
journeyflow.spamspam.demon.co.uk> wrote: