There are currently four way lights on the crossroads of Lady Lawson Street and West Port, and they are causing traffic 'chaos', with cars scattered everywhere, big queues, even saw someone last night mounting a central reservation to turn (some distance from the crossroads) and escape the melee.
But while drivers caught in it may / will complain about the works (how anyone thinks anything gets done or maintained without some disruption I'll never know) you've got to love how pedestrians are treated, and it demonstrates the true hierarchy. Because while it would undoubtedly make the works quicker and easier to carry out simply by shutting the route to traffic, they bring in traffic management systems to ensure at least some remaining flow.
The pedestrians however? Well at all four roads there are traffic lights with pedestrian crossings. All four have been turned off, and all four have signs that simply say 'Crossing Not In Use'. Seen them loads before, and it really irritates me. No alternative temporary lit crossing, no guidance as to where might be safe to cross, just 'ye cannae cross here' (or 'if ye dae on yer ane heid be it'.
(and anyway, wasn't that Festival roadworks amnesty thing supposed to have kicked in, and that's why tools have been down on the Meadows to Innocent route?)
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