Council closes road to create moneybox.

AdrianC

Ah, bless.

https://goo.gl/maps/LTHdrb9QtdBCLR95A

jimbo6977

AdrianC said:

Ah, bless.

https://goo.gl/maps/LTHdrb9QtdBCLR95A

As the linked article explains, the problem is not the box by itself, but the phasing of 2 adjacent sets of lights which mean that traffic heading NE on the New King's Road might never be able to cross the junction legally, because the right turners from Bagleys Lane will take up all the available space beyond the yellow box. The council's response SHOULD be to re-engineer the junctions to improve traffic flow, but of course that would fall into the "expenditure" rather than the "revenue" column.

Near me the council painted a yellow box on the approach to a mini r-a-b. There wasn't enough space for a stationary vehicle between the exit from the box and the give way line of the r-a-b, and from the entry side of the box it was impossible to see what was coming from the right at the r-a-b. So the options were 1. disobey the box or 2. risk disobeying the give way line and causing an accident. Luckily the council saw sense and scrubbed the yellow box. Other less enlightened councils would no doubt have put a camera up. 

Herzlos

The problem with junctions like that is that so many 'me first' drivers will pile across when there's no way to go and block the road for everyone in the other direction. So hatched areas were introduced, preventing people from entering unless it was clear. They get pretty regularly ignored, so cameras were introduced.  I'm really not sure what else they can do except close one of the exits.