In Nottingham our planning department seems obsessed with traffic lights. Positively anti-roundabout. They get rid of them whenever they can and litter every ro

In Nottingham our planning department seems obsessed with traffic lights. Positively anti-roundabout. They get rid of them whenever they can and litter every road with tons of traffic lights. I think at one point we counted 12 traffic lights between our flat and the train station, a 5 minute drive away without all the traffic lights. There's even one roundabout that they turned into a traffic light hell and it keeps getting redesigned slightly because it sucks, but that just means for the last 10 years there's almost always some sort of works on it yet the west end of Woolaton road is just a constant traffic jam in rush hour: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Nottingham/@52.9549769,-1.1930636,17.58z https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Nottingham/@52.9549769,-... I used to live in Essex, where they were extremely pro-roundabout, even to the point of introducing a roundabout made up of roundabouts: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Colchester/@51.8841752,0.9327179,17.25z https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Colchester/@51.8841752,0... That two planning departments in the same country can have such fundamentally different philosophies, that there's no consensus and still no consensus 20 years since I moved, boggles my mind.