Traffic light management - Leeds

[Bayum]

Noticed a few issues over my journeys into Leeds recently.

The new set of lights on the outer ring road between the new roundabout and Roundhay Park Lane have a habit of changing from green to red every thirty seconds, regardless of pedestrians, equestrians or horses waiting to cross. Both journeys I made had traffic queuing towards Wetherby/Seacroft direction as far back as ‘The Pines’/ ‘Hodgson Crescent’.

The other set of lights that I’m not sure about are on Merrion Way in the city centre. Where traffic towards Albion Street separates into the bus lane for the bus stop in the centre of the road, both the light at the end of the bus lane and traffic heading into the city receive a green aspect at the same time. This potentially causes a conflict with vehicles heading into the city centre and buses merging into the same lane at the same time.

Have these lights been set up correctly? Who do I email to raise it to?

 

[bluenoxid]

Noticed a few issues over my journeys into Leeds recently.

The new set of lights on the outer ring road between the new roundabout and Roundhay Park Lane have a habit of changing from green to red every thirty seconds, regardless of pedestrians, equestrians or horses waiting to cross. Both journeys I made had traffic queuing towards Wetherby/Seacroft direction as far back as ‘The Pines’/ ‘Hodgson Crescent’.

The other set of lights that I’m not sure about are on Merrion Way in the city centre. Where traffic towards Albion Street separates into the bus lane for the bus stop in the centre of the road, both the light at the end of the bus lane and traffic heading into the city receive a green aspect at the same time. This potentially causes a conflict with vehicles heading into the city centre and buses merging into the same lane at the same time.

Have these lights been set up correctly? Who do I email to raise it to?

Probably not but I would need to look at the set ups.

Search for Leeds City council traffic lights and you will get a form to fill in

If you live in an LCC area, raise it with your councillors if you don’t get a response or a satisfactory result.

They have outsourced their traffic light work and they tend to get it sorted pretty quick and their highways team tend to be pretty good but slow to respond (although some of my recent queries have required me to dust off the Design Manual for Roads and Bridges)

I’ve checked the latter on Streetview. Unless the road layout has changed, the two lanes go into separate lanes and it is general traffic changing lanes causing the conflict. It could be changed but that would affect traffic flow.

 

[Bayum]

I’ve checked the latter on Streetview. Unless the road layout has changed, the two lanes go into separate lanes and it is general traffic changing lanes causing the conflict. It could be changed but that would affect traffic flow.

But is it not unsafe if vehicles wanting to go straight ahead by merging into the right lane when the lights are both green for the bus lane and then the general traffic? Before they were changed, the bus lane would be on a red and traffic ahead green and then vice versa so it reduced the conflict.

 

[bluenoxid]

But is it not unsafe if vehicles wanting to go straight ahead by merging into the right lane when the lights are both green for the bus lane and then the general traffic? Before they were changed, the bus lane would be on a red and traffic ahead green and then vice versa so it reduced the conflict.

I don’t think it is unsafe in the low speed environment here and enables buses to depart and move into the appropriate position for more time during the phases of the traffic lights at this junction.