Traffic Control

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30393, 18 March 1964, Page 16

Traffic Control

Sir, —Controlled traffic movement is featured in your photograph of the Carlton Mill intersection. In West Germany they have an ingenious traffic system that prevents traffic jams and “hold-ups” generally. I have not seen it in use anywhere else in the world yet it is so absurdly simple and effective that I am positively astonished that it is not in universal use. In Germany they call it the “Green Have.” It is a traffic light system designed to get motorists over a junction without stopping. Two sets of preliminary lights flash the exact speeds that will get them to the junction just as the main lights change to green. There is absolutely nothing to confuse one, and it keeps the traffic a great deal more to an even flow than anything you have previously seen.— Yours, etc., JOHN CARLTON.

March 13, 1964. [The City Engineer (Mr P. G. Scoular) said: “The form of traffic control referred to is used in many parts of the world in various forms. In general, it forms part of a progressive system involving a series of controlled intersections on a major arterial route. It is not applicable to an intersection such as the Carlton Mill corner, which is in relative isolation.”]