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Hi-tech traffic lights failing.

Traffic lights supposed to be at the cutting edge of new technology have not been doing their job.

Pedestrians have been left stranded on the wrong side of a busy dual carriageway dual carriageway
Noun

Brit, Austral & NZ a road with a central strip of grass or concrete to separate traffic travelling in opposite directions

Noun 1.
 by the repeated failure of the lights on London Road London Road may refer to several hundred (at least) roads. England
There are literally hundreds of London Roads in England. Only those which are significant outside their local area are listed here:
  • London Road, Brighton; for which a railway station is named
, Whitley, Coventry Whitley is a suburb of southern Coventry in the West Midlands of England, UK.

Whitley is the home of the Whitley plant, which is the Engineering Centre of Jaguar Cars Limited.
, near the Safeway supermarket.

They have been out of action several times in the past three days. The latest fault, which happened yesterday morning, is now fixed.

Contractors Urban Traffic Control who maintain the lights on behalf of Coventry City Council have pledged to find the underlying cause of the faults.

The lights, installed last year, were the city's first Puffin - Pedestrian A pedestrian is a person travelling on foot, whether walking or running. In modern times, the term mostly refers to someone walking on a road or footpath, but this was not the case historically. History
Walking is the primary means of human locomotion.
 User Friendly Intelligent - crossing. They have ground sensors to ensure they don't change until everyone has crossed safely and don't hold the traffic up if nobody is waiting to cross.
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Publication:Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)
Date:Mar 5, 1999
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