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Traffic light numbers cause traffic congestion

  Wednesday, 30 March 2011

The number of traffic lights on the UK’s roads has multiplied by almost 30 per cent in the last decade. A new report reveals the increase between 2000 and 2008 with the amount of traffic lights in London alone increasing to more than 6,000 throughout the City.

A spokesman for the RAC Foundation, who conducted the report, revealed there are now over 25,000 traffic lights situated on the nation’s highways.

There is concern that the growing number of traffic lights will cause continued congestion on the roads. Subsequently the report has called upon the Department for Transport (DfT) to consider trials using flashing amber lights at times when there is little traffic, allowing drivers to proceed with caution and the traffic to flow more easily.

Local authorities are also being asked to consider implementing mini-roundabouts as a substitute for traffic lights in a bid to keep congestion to a minimum.

Professor Stephen Glaister, RAC director, said: “Depending when and where you are, traffic lights can ease your journey or be a source of frustration.

“It is plain that lights have an important role to play but with evermore-congested streets they need to be very finely tuned to ensure they are not doing more harm than good – and that means they must react to changing traffic conditions.”

Congestion in major towns and cities is one of the major causes of pollution while at ASM Auto Recycling we are keen to keep the pollution of end-of-life vehicles to a low level.

We act as used car parts recyclers and car dismantlers of end-of-life vehicles. The de-pollution process enables us to recover and recycle much of the ferrous and non-ferrous metal content within a car in accordance with the European ELV Directive which forms the basis of our car scrappage scheme.

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