{"id":18175,"date":"2015-09-04T10:24:27","date_gmt":"2015-09-04T09:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=18175"},"modified":"2015-09-04T10:24:27","modified_gmt":"2015-09-04T09:24:27","slug":"the-theory-according-to-nottingham-city-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=18175","title":{"rendered":"The Theory According to Nottingham City Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s actually quite a simple equation they use. It only has one variable:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">x = \u201cmake the motorist wait as long as possible\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>I saw it in action this morning. I came off the A453 and turned into Clifton, along Green Lane. As I approached the junction with Southchurch Drive (the tram crossing), the lights changed to red. This is the sequence that followed:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a pause of about 10 seconds<\/li>\n<li>pedestrian crossings go green for approximately 30 seconds, then back to red<\/li>\n<li>a tram has stopped by this time<\/li>\n<li>a further 10 second pause<\/li>\n<li>Southchurch Drive lights go green, tram and following traffic move off<\/li>\n<li>Southchurch Drive lights stay green for at least 1 minute<\/li>\n<li>Southchurch Drive lights turn red<\/li>\n<li>a further 10 second pause<\/li>\n<li>pedestrian crossings go green again for another 30 seconds, then back to red<\/li>\n<li>a further 10 second pause<\/li>\n<li>Green Lane lights change to green<\/li>\n<li>there&#8217;s a minor delay moving off because two people with Clifton genes (one riding a mobility scooter) have proceeded to cross well after the green man turned red and we have to wait for them<\/li>\n<li>After less than 15 seconds the lights change back to red<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Only a fraction of the traffic that had built up along Green Lane got through, and it had to endure the same protracted sequence all over again.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve said it before, and I\u2019ll say it again. Those responsible for the tram are complete wankers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s actually quite a simple equation they use. It only has one variable: x = \u201cmake the motorist wait as long as possible\u201d. I saw it in action this morning. I came off the A453 and turned into Clifton, along Green Lane. As I approached the junction with Southchurch Drive (the tram crossing), the lights [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transport"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}