The Portishead Traffic Light ExperimentAs you can see in this video, the experiment to switch off a notorious set of traffic lights in Portishead was an outstanding success. I missed this at the time but, although it clearly needs a bit of work, it was good enough for the experiment to be made permanent. Since then two zebra crossings have been introduced making it easier for disabled people, but in an unfortunate retrograde step, they have been put on raised “traffic calming” platforms. Now we just need the experiment to be repeated in Bristol itself—at sensible and appropriate locations.
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To see the video in its rightful place, go to FiT Roads – Part 1 (linked to the left-hand photo) explains the rationale and includes clips from my Newsnight report); Part 2, the Portishead light-off trial, is linked to the RH photo. It’s actually one piece, but the combined running time of 12 min exceeded the then YouTube allowance of 10 min. Please note that recently I relaunched FiT Roads as Equality Streets, so the videos can be found there too, at Press>Media.