If road islands were invented to keep traffic moving, why did some idiot put traffic lights on them ??
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As you say, road islands, or roundabouts were designed to keep traffic moving, provided that drivers kept to the speed limit and kept their distance from the vehicle in front. However, due to the increase in traffic, drivers not following the rules of the road, the traffic planners have had to put traffic lights on the islands to "help" keep the traffic moving.
Does seem a wase of time amd money, when a much better thought junction would have done.
Guess while the number of vehicles keep increasing, so will the amount of traffic lights!
Because road islands aren't there to keep traffic moving. They are to keep traffic apart and to provide a safe place for pedestrians to allow them to cross one half of the road at a time.
PS is 'road island' an Americanism for a roundabout? In the UK a road island is something completely different, it is something in the centre of a road between the carriageways.
To help you get onto the island. It's amazing how many people go as fast as as possible round the the island, with (it seems) the sole purpose of preventing you getting on.
To stop dumb arses crashing!
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