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CHR traffic lights need adjusting pronto

CHR traffic lights at TGT need adjustingMid morning I used the rainbow crossing across CHR by Snappy Snaps.  An old lady with a walking stick was already waiting to cross.  Like many locals I know the sequence so as soon as the Annandale traffic had gone, I was off keeping, my eyes open for the mad delivery guys in a hurry.When I got to the other side, the old lady was still sensibly and perfectly correctly waiting for the “green man”.I stayed and watched.The lights soon began to beep, counting down the 10 seconds she was allowed to make it to the other side.  Trouble was, she'd only just got past the halfway mark when her time ran out.  So I stepped out and protected her until she reached safety.If any Councillors get to read this, perhaps they'll agree that these local lights need an extra 5 seconds minimum to make sure the very elderly stay safe.The traffic must wait longer.

Bill Danton ● 40d54 Comments

Have you all had a good weekend ☺️

Janice Evans ● 38d

When they did the dodgy survey the junction came out top in responses. They ignored the lot and instead sliced Staveley Road in half.

Russell Pearson ● 38d

SCR/A4 junction has been a problem for years, usually in the afternoon.  The issue is not the length of time to cross the A4 but that there is no separate slot to allow people turning right from SCR (going south) to the A4 (going west).  I think people have been raising the option for a dedicated right turn timing for many many years and there is no chance of it happening because the relevant authority does not want to impede traffic on the A4 (also why Hogarth roundabout is a mess of timings)

Justin Stephenson ● 38d

Make sure to zip up that lovely red quilted jacket on your quest for driver-shaming tonight - it’s chilly out.

Madeleine Hazard ● 38d

Wish they’d adjust these to allow more cars to get across the A4 before they change. That queue is taking the Mickey.

Russell Pearson ● 38d

Look in the mirror!Sad.

N V Brooks ● 38d

Can anyone tell me the name of the poster originally nicknamed B*g*rotter or and B**gy?

Bill Danton ● 38d

Join the queue then sonny, ageism, misogyny and disabled shaming are all forms of bigotry.

N V Brooks ● 39d

No they won't and it is going to happen. I get to count off the bigots as they go.

Paul Campbell ● 39d

Oh they will, if it ever happens.

N V Brooks ● 39d

Nobody on any of these forums will lament the apparently quite proximate demise of a racist.

Paul Campbell ● 39d

Mr Brooks.  Firstly I am not hiding behind any alias.Second, I am, as openly revealed, Irish Canadian.  Your racist libels will go to the appropriate authorities.

Bill Danton ● 39d

Do report me by all means. I wonder what will be construed as worse. Hiding behind an alias and being called out with a harmless epithet or veiled death wishes to other forum members. Silly little 'man'.

N V Brooks ● 39d

Whoooo scared. Fully aware that Sean is Irish but then again he isn't, unlike you, a twat.

N V Brooks ● 39d

racism is a hate crime and you don't have to go to the forum administrator to stamp it out - just go straight to the police.But that's another matter.I'll not waste another second on these two.

Bill Danton ● 39d

>OMG.  Mr Pearson mainly but also the dead cretin Mr Brooks. >But I will probably seek your removal from this forum on Monday morning.As my Irish grandfather used to say, only an idiot wouldn’t do it otherwise on a Monday, let alone any other day of the week.

Russell Pearson ● 39d

I wonder if anybody has ever reported Nigel for his racism? The owner of this site is Irish.

Paul Campbell ● 39d

OMG.  Mr Pearson mainly but also the dead cretin Mr Brooks.  What a creepy pair of hopeless idiots you are.I am who I am and if you want to see  me as somebody else then go ahead.But I will probably seek your removal from this forum on Monday morning.

Bill Danton ● 39d

What an silly little irrelevant bogtrotter. The LCC must be so proud to have such an intellectual among their ranks.  BUSTED BOGGY!!!

N V Brooks ● 39d

He will cover his trail. VPN, Not very gentlemanly for a chap to create accounts of dubious provenance to wish neighbours into an early grave.

Russell Pearson ● 39d

Oh no.  Go ahead. You take the trouble you hopelessly dead creep.

Bill Danton ● 39d

Well it was a simple choice between the schizo Humpty or an XL bully bogtrotter. Welcome back Boggy  Do you want to save me the trouble of reporting the shared IP account to Neighbournet?

N V Brooks ● 39d

Rumbled, it’s like an episode of Scooby Doo

Russell Pearson ● 39d

Mr Pearson and Mr Brooks.What a pair of impossible creeps you are.You deserve one another.

Bill Danton ● 39d

🫣

Russell Pearson ● 39d

Dexterous like drivers 

Paul Campbell ● 39d

Surely not The Bogtrotter 🤣

N V Brooks ● 39d

Mmmm.  I'm not sure about electric scooters either.  But the video was more to do with cycles.  Personally I have no problem with cyclists.  Of course there's the odd idiot but generally they're doing us all a great favour under the circumstances.  Mums and dads all over Chiswick teaching their kids to cycle.  Then look at the queues of traffic on the High Road,  Mainly one person per car with many cars taking up multi multi times more space that a bike.

Bill Danton ● 39d

NoBut its a problem that can only get worse over time. Im sure with the said shift to making electric scooters legal on our roads can only make such situations worse and more dangerous

Julian Pavey ● 39d

A clue Nigel, you he particularly dislikes you.

Russell Pearson ● 39d

Ah, dear Mr Brooks.Still  refusing to accept you've evolutionarily expired.Shall I, as a friend, make it easier for you to understand.  You effectively died weeks agoBut a forum intellectual to the last.  This world will remember you for your brilliant invention of the word  “Eggspurt”.

Bill Danton ● 39d

No guessing.  You tell him - and me - Mr Pearson.

Bill Danton ● 39d

Guessed who he is yet?

Russell Pearson ● 39d

'e up, Billy Sockpuppet has surfaced.

N V Brooks ● 39d

No Mark - the two things aren’t mutually exclusive dear - they’re terribly dexterous these cyclists …..

Madeleine Hazard ● 39d

Sorry Julian I don't get that at all.But I just read the Cyclists thread and found your Youtube film.  Bog standard Daily Telegraph clickbait.  Designed to outrage many of the failing Telegraph's avid readers in Bedford Park and beyond.  Were you outraged by it?

Bill Danton ● 39d

Bacause that is something someone else says on here. I once mentioned something on here and such person said your making it up.Not 3 but 1 guess who

Julian Pavey ● 39d

Obviously not. It’s a boring story about nothing happening.

Paul Campbell ● 39d

i ain’t making it up .

John Kennedy ● 39d

What on earth possessed you to write that, Julian.  And don't say it was a light-hearted joke because it didn't read like one.Sure, this forum is plagued by ridiculously exaggerated  anecdotal tales.  But John's read true. I've seen myself many a close shave at those lights - and the most dangerous by far involved a driver putting his foot down when they'd already gone to amber - and quite often red.

Bill Danton ● 39d

The traffic lights on and centering on the corner of TGT have been a problem for pedestrians for as long as I can remember.Many people, mostly younger, haven't the patience to wait for the green light to go, and get caught mid-stream when crossing.Luckily most car drivers (not all cyclists) approach the crossing with caution and prevent many an accident.

Denis I. Fox ● 39d

Your making it up john,your making it up mate.

Julian Pavey ● 39d

just now a girl turned right into TG as pedestrians were crossing and nearly hit a child .Crazy and gave the finger to the Dad when he said something.

John Kennedy ● 39d

Oh yeh,amazing is it not. Mmmm ?

Julian Pavey ● 39d

Both, at the same time? What a feat.

Mark Frost ● 39d

"Like many locals I know the sequence so as soon as the Annandale traffic had gone, I was off"So do i but the odd cyclist knows this aswell and proceeds accross Annandale from originaly stopping at a red light but is obviousy crossing the green man for pedestrians that proceeds the exit for Annandale traffic.Not for everyone but the gaps in stopping and starting in other directions allow me to cross like TG stopping and Annandale starting but as a say,not for everyone but im no longer the only one.

Julian Pavey ● 39d

Thanks Joanna,Personally I find CHR perfectly safe and there are numerous places dedicated to crossing over, including the traffic lights.  It's a lovely High Road.  It just seems rather obvious that the elderly and the frightened, like Madeleine, need quite a bit more time to get across.

Bill Danton ● 39d

delivery bikes guys run through red  light and looking down on the phone .i never this L plate thing either.

John Kennedy ● 39d

Oh they manage both.

Madeleine Hazard ● 39d

They can't be running red lights because they are on pavements. I read it on here.

Mark Frost ● 39d

If all the cyclists that run red lights every day, speeding through  Chiswick, then it would be a great deal safer and more pleasant for all locals including the elderly.

Madeleine Hazard ● 39d

If TGT wasn’t used as a rat run by thousands of drivers every day passing straight through Chiswick then it would be a great deal safer and more pleasant for all locals including the elderly.

Paul Campbell ● 39d

... rephased ... auto correct intervened!

Joanna Biddolph ● 39d

Thanks for raising this. I will see what I can do. There have been several requests for lights to be rephrased - at other crossings along the High Road, too. It has become much harder for people who walk more slowly to cross the road since the traffic islands were removed.

Joanna Biddolph ● 40d