I noticed on the Bucks Herald website that they were reporting gridlock on virtually every road into town on Monday morning.

Apart from the 1 disastrous day back in August when the Water Board decided to cone off the roads at the same time as the new junction road works were going on I haven’t found too many problems with traffic myself.

That being said, I don’t tend to travel at peak times so perhaps I am a bad judge of this. Now that the traffic lights have been installed and are working at the new Watermead junction I am finding it quicker to get out of Watermead and not too difficult to get in.

That may change when the four way lights are used by the new housing development junction more regularly but only time will tell. I do find it surprising that the traffic lights haven’t been made as intelligent as they could be. When traffic is on a green light in out out of Aylesbury the right hand filter light for traffic into Watermead is red.

This obviously makes sense and keeps the traffic moving along the main road but the amount of times I have been sat at the filter light which only lets a few cars through at a time when there is nothing coming in the other direction, you would think they could make the traffic lights intelligent enough to realise there is no traffic coming into Aylesbury, there is a queue of traffic waiting to come into Watermead so lets change lights so traffic can still go straight on out of Aylesbury and turn right.

How hard would that be?

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