A resident recently wrote to us as follows :
"I would much appreciate it if you could contact the roads department, if appropriate, re the traffic lights at the junction of City Road and Tullideph Road. For some time I have been concerned about the short length of time that the green man stays on for.
It is impossible even for a fit healthy person to cross the road before the green man disappears and back to red.
As you will be aware, lots of elderly and disabled people and those with limited mobility live in this area. I have experienced problems myself, with my grandchildren trying to get across in time.
I believe that the crossing would be made much safer if the time allocated to the green man lengthened."
We raised this with the road safety team at the City Council and have no received the following helpful response :
"One of our Traffic Engineers in UTC has reviewed the pedestrian crossing timings at the junction.
Currently, the green man signal is active for 6 seconds—this serves as the invitation to begin crossing and does not exceed this duration. Following that, there is an intergreen period of 8 seconds, allowing pedestrians time to complete their crossing before vehicle signals turn green. This results in a total crossing time of 14 seconds.
To improve pedestrian safety concerns from your constituent, the intergreen time has now been increased to 15 seconds. This change provides a total crossing time of 26 seconds, giving pedestrians additional time to safely cross after the green man signal turns off.
This adjustment will be applied consistently across all four crossing points at the Tullideph/City Road junction.
Any further increases to the pedestrian crossing timing element are unfortunately not feasible without negatively impacting traffic flow and increasing congestion."