Does anybody know how the process of changing traffic light sequencing takes place?
I'm going through a splurge of lobbying for small, easily fixable things that the council could do to improve the Meadows - Haymarket commute, and one thing that really slows me down is the Toucan crossing across the western approach road near Morrison Crescent.
At present it takes around a minute for the lights to change after the button has been pressed (I will get proper data). This is far too slow, often I just bolt through any gaps in the cars.
This absolutely isn't a pinch point for cars, in the morning all the drivers are heading north towards a traffic jam about a hundred metres north of the lights, and so stopping a greater number of cars at the toucan crossing wouldn't actually slow them down. I'm never alone crossing the road here, even at ten past seven in the morning, I guess quite a few pedestrians and cyclists access Haymarket this way despite the lack of signage of the route. So speeding up the crossing would improve the experience for pedestrians and cyclists without slowing down anyone.
So back to the original question, how does the council change the timing sequence on a pedestrian crossing? Do they need to send engineers out, and if so is it a long, expensive job? Or does someone in a fancy control centre just type something into a keyboard? Would be nice to know what kind of job I'm lobbying for before I start lobbying.
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