Botus
Senior Member
Stop/Start saves around 8% of fuel (and therefore pollution and saved costs).
The reduction in pollution was the aim as multiple vehicles stopped at traffic lights or other traffic blockages .
isn't it intriguing that now they can sell more cars (having inventing a new way to break them) your government has instructed every local authority to remove free flowing roundabouts and replace them with cleverly set up traffic lights that create so many more opportunities to use the start stop.
Of course we are told this "needless stopping" is combated with intelligent lights. What this really means is you can introduce far more congestion for 6 months whilst you place wires in the road, and then implement special opportunities to keep traffic waiting by creating a clam zone where all traffic stops allowing pedestrians free rein to take back the streets.
This has happened near me. Before the workman got involved they turned off the lights and put in a temporary roundabout for 6 weeks. The bad congestion vanished overnight and many locals doing a 30 min school run could do it inside 10 minutes (by removing just one terribly set up set of traffic lights). I can vouch the 200m que in every direction vanished and instead of building heavily from 15:30 until 19:00, there was nothing at all even during the 17:30 to 18:10 peak.
Then bob the builder put silly kerbs in all the wrong places, removed turning lanes and generally screwed it from a layout perspective. And then got busy wiring up the new lights where they fine tuned the light sequence and have quadrupled the previous bad congestion from the old lights.
Even at nights and weekends the school arrival / leaving time calm zone remains active. Creating mega congestion in 5 directions when before you could often navigate this on a bicycle without seeing a single car.
You are being managed... start stop won't resolve it. In fact tolerating it is part of the problem...