At yesterday’s packed Ward Focus meeting, residents asked us to invite a County Officer along to talk about phasing of crossing lights.

We get asked a lot about pedestrian crossings. Those who are less mobile have concerns that they may not make it to the other side of the road in time before the traffic starts moving again.

Here is our latest information from the County Council re the crossing outside Douglas Veale House.

We still have this common misunderstanding. The Green Man period is the “invitation to begin crossing”. Its purpose is to make sure all waiting pedestrians are able to set off. The following period is much longer and is the time allowed for pedestrians to complete crossing.

 Here we have 5 seconds Green Man and when it goes out there are a further 13 seconds before the traffic is shown a green light (be careful if you measure this as the crossing has detection and the traffic can be released a few second earlier if all pedestrians have cleared the crossing).

You may like to view this article from the Daily Telegraph about the issue.