Roadworks highlight just how bad Dunblane traffic lights are
Most drivers must groan when they see the triangular warning signs and then the endless ranks of traffic cones at road construction works.
Not many of us will pause to think that the works are essential and that the road workers need to be protected from moving vehicles.
However I must congratulate the contractors raising the railway road bridge in Dunblane. Their thoughtful and well planned management of traffic past their site has, if anything, improved traffic flow along the dual carriageway.
I suspect that another reason for this smooth, uninterrupted flow is that the traffic lights at Sunnyside have been switched off for the duration. These lights were installed in November 1990, just two weeks before the Dunblane bypass opened which then effectively rendered them redundant.
Since then the disruption and delay to traffic caused by the erratic, illogical phasing of these lights has proved to be a nuisance as well as an annoyance and occasionally even a hazard. Indeed on quite a few occasions I have had to take evasive action to avoid being struck by another driver “jumping”the lights.
Perhaps the planners will recognise this and remove these traffic lights permanently and if it is really necessary on a 30mph dual carriageway with pedestrian refuges, replace them with a pedestrian controlled crossing.
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