Brixham and the Traffic Lights

This is Brixham yesterday afternoon. Which ever way you look nothing is moving. Except the pedestrians. And they're all having a good laugh at us poor drivers.

I got there about 5 mins past one and as I drove into the Town Square a driver who was just leaving got on the radio and warned me that there could be a problem with the traffic lights. They had taken 4 minutes to change he said. When I got in I managed to get half way round the square before coming to a stop. I remained stopped for 4 minutes. I finally made it to the bus stop, which is on the left of the red car you can see in the picture on the left. I loaded up and managed to pull of the stop. 7 minutes later and the lights still hadn't changed. The driver at the front of the queue finally decided that he would risk going through the lights on red but choose the moment to go when a number 12 came round the corner. Even more chaos.

All in all from entering the Town Square to getting out, and it isn't all that big took 17 minutes. I had called control and asked them to ring Town Hall and explain that we had a serious problem down here in Brixham but Brixham is a long way from the Town Hall in Torquay both in miles and attitude and the man finally arrived at 6 pm the fix the lights. I did here some drivers being stuck for up to 45 minutes trying to get in and out of Brixham during the afternoon. And the Brixham Park and Ride starts to morrow for a week.Lets hope the man who fixed the lights did a good job.

Mind you Brixham can get gridlocked at the drop of a hat at the best of times during the summer and with the 12, 12A and 12B all trying to us a bus stop that only really fits one bus plus all the coaches dropping their parties of the summer should be fun.