It's Time to Get Things Moving ; This Is the Junction That has Shown the Idea of Turning Off Traffic Lights Can Work. Sam Rkaina Looks at How Portishead's Cabstand Junction, Previously a Byword for Delays and Frustration for Road Users, has Been Improved by the Flick of an Off-Switch

Evening Post (Bristol, UK) › October 17, 2009

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This is the junction that has shown the idea of turning off traffic lights can work. SAM RKAINA looks at how Portishead's Cabstand junction, previously a byword for delays and frustration for road users, has been improved by the flick of an off-switch THE switching-off of traffic lights at Portishead's Cabstand is a shining example for other towns, according to campaigners.

The lights went live in 2005 after almost a year of work to install them, at a cost of Pounds 800,000.

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It's Time to Get Things Moving ; This Is the Junction That has Shown the Idea of Turning Off Traffic Lights Can Work. Sam Rkaina Looks at How Portishead's Cabstand Junction, Previously a Byword for Delays and Frustration for Road Users, has Been Improved by the Flick of an Off-Switch

From the start they were unpopular with drivers, pedestrians and neighbours.

Hold-ups started immediately, soon followed by complaints from residents in nearby residential roads that drivers were using their streets as ra...

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