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Some of the traffic lights in London seem to have their sequences timed inappropriately/dangerously.
2 examples:
northeastbound on Shaftesbury Avenue, oncoming traffic swinging towards me from Bloomsbury St. I went through on amber, nearly got squeezed out by oncoming traffic as I reached far side of junction.
Eastbound on Sidmouth St, turning right onto Grays Inn Rd. Through on amber, barely made it half way across the road before I'm avoiding a collision.
I realise some pricks are probably pre-empting the lights, but surely this should be taken into consideration by TFL (it is TFL, isn't it?) when programming the sequence.
I think a longer period of red in both directions is needed - something like 2 seconds, rather than this instantaneous switch.
I'm typically going through these junctions ~20mph, most definitely well before the change to red, so I'd be even more concerned for slower moving bikes in the same situation.
Maybe one of our LCC people can shed some light on whether this issue is on any agenda…