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Traffic light again has been reversed causing immediate serious danger. Looks deliberate.
Sent to TfL less than a minute later. TfL ref: FMS6311312.
This is similar to the incident I reported on July 7. It’s slightly different and looks as if someone deliberately and carefully reversed the light. Signal for traffic turning R off southbound carriageway has been spun 180 degrees and looks as if it is intended to direct traffic from northbound carriageway. It displays a green “straight ahead” arrow to northbound drivers, when the southbound traffic has a green light to turn right across their path. Again, It’s an accident waiting to happen. Please could you put a security camera monitor on that junction rather than awaiting a report by a passer-by. Twice in a month: that’s too many.
Updates
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Thank you for taking the time to report this to us. It is much appreciated. This has now been investigated and we can confirm that there is a fault with these traffic lights. We have therefore passed this to our contractors and as it is classed as an emergency. It will be made safe within 24 hours. Should you need anything else, or if you have any questions, you may wish to contact our customer services team on 0343 222 1234
Please also be aware that, all Action Scheduled reports are automatically closed after 28 days. However, the fault will be fixed within this timescale, which may be sooner, or in a few cases take a little longer.
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Today, 5 Aug, around 8pm, I returned and saw that nobody has yet repaired this dangerous 180-degree turn of the traffic light. This morning I received an email referring to my report of July 7 stating that the repair had been made. But that was the July 7 report! These photos show cars turning R across the path of the northbound drivers who are wrongly seeing a straight-ahead green arrow. Please can someone fix this urgently and investigate why my Aug 3 report - in which I wrote “again” and “immediate serious danger” - was allowed to be dismissed. I had specified the disparity between the Aug 3 situation and that of July 7.
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Traffic light is still reversed and presenting a hazard at 13:41 today Aug 6 when I passed by.
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Still no action on this hazardous situation where the southbound green right-turn light (but not the red one) has been flipped 180 degrees - and turned to point upwards - so that northbound drivers see a green “ahead” arrow while the southbound traffic has a green right-turn arrow to cross their path. Photos are from 21:35 on Aug 6
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Still no action on this hazardous situation where the southbound green right-turn light (but not the red one) has been flipped 180 degrees - and turned to point upwards - so that northbound drivers see a green “ahead” arrow while the southbound traffic has a green right-turn arrow to cross their path. Photos are from 21:35 on Aug 6
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I rang TfL this morning. The man told me he would speak to the team members straight away. Ten hours later, it still hasn’t been fixed.
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It was fixed sometime between 9 August and 23 August. I had asked to receive updates, received no updates but saw on visual check that it was fixed. I am somewhat surprised that the Fix My Street entry doesn’t show this as Fixed. It’s evidence suggesting that the original report wasn’t logged properly but was confused with the previous July 7 report of a similar incident.
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The action scheduled for your report should now have been completed as detailed in your previous response. On some occasions it does take a little longer than scheduled. If you have any further queries on this, please either create a new report or contact our Customer Contact Centre on 0343 222 1234
This report is now closed to updates from the public. You can make a new report in the same location.