MERRY-GO-ROUND-ABOUT

January 11, 2009

I’VE SAID it before, and I’ll say it again. I detest unnecessary roundabouts. And I detest the excessive clutter of traffic lights that blight our highways. However, more than anything else I despise the ludicrous combination of traffic lights ON roundabouts.

You could be forgiven for thinking that the plans for some of the roundabouts in my hometown of Livingston were drawn up by a committee of toddlers on a sugar-high with only a stack of cheap paper and a few coloured crayons to keep them busy. What other possible explanation could there be        Read the rest of this entry »