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 Post subject: Re: Towns without traffic lights
PostPosted: Tue Mar 02, 2010 13:06 
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Further afield than the UK - how many national capital cities have none? .

None in Vatican, or (possibly) any in Greenland. There are probably still other countries without them as well.


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 Post subject: Re: Towns without traffic lights
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May be wrong, but I don't think there are any traffic lights in Tetbury in Gloucestershire, unless the zebra crossing has been changed to a Pelican.

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There are some a few miles west of the town at the A46/A4135 junction.

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 Post subject: Re: Towns without traffic lights
PostPosted: Tue Mar 02, 2010 20:56 
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May be wrong, but I don't think there are any traffic lights in Tetbury in Gloucestershire, unless the zebra crossing has been changed to a Pelican.

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There are some a few miles west of the town at the A46/A4135 junction.


That junction is nearer to Nailsworth than Tetbury, so hardly counts.

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 Post subject: Re: Towns without traffic lights
PostPosted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 19:19 
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When I went to Bude in 2007, I didn't see any around there.

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 Post subject: Re: Towns without traffic lights
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Rhayader, Radnorshire?


I have a feeling there are pedestrian lights on the A470 going north out of town, but I could be mistaken.

In the same area, I can't remember any in Builth Wells. I don't think there are any traffic or pedestrian lights in Llandrindod Wells, but it has a level crossing with lights, so I suppose this excludes it.


Yes, there is a ped crossing in Rheadr on the north side of the crossroads.

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 Post subject: Re: Towns without traffic lights
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What about Howden as it doesn't have any traffic signals?


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 Post subject: Re: Towns without traffic lights
PostPosted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 22:37 
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Further afield than the UK - how many national capital cities have none? .

None in Vatican, or (possibly) any in Greenland. There are probably still other countries without them as well.


Allow me to put you right about the latter... 8-)

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WHBM wrote:
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Further afield than the UK - how many national capital cities have none? .

None in Vatican, or (possibly) any in Greenland. There are probably still other countries without them as well.


Greenland's not a country, at least not in the sense of a sovereign state.


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 Post subject: Re: Towns without traffic lights
PostPosted: Mon Jul 05, 2010 09:19 
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Further afield than the UK - how many national capital cities have none? .

None in Vatican, or (possibly) any in Greenland. There are probably still other countries without them as well.


Greenland's not a country, at least not in the sense of a sovereign state.

No, for now it's a self-governing territory of the Danish kingdom. However, they are looking at the possibility of full independence.

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Soham in Cambridgeshire.


I know it's an old post but still; even at the time of posting it wasn't correct. Soham has a set of lights right in the middle of town thanks to a pedestrian crossing outside the local co-op. Think it was put in about 2002.


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 Post subject: Re: Towns without traffic lights
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Back to the original question, I was in Barmouth a couple of weeks back. Apart from the wigwags at the level crossing, I don't remember seeing any traffic signals at all.

(edit: don't recall seeing any in Harlech either!)

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I'll give you Barmouth, but regret to advise that Harlech does not qualify under my definition of "town":

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- For the purpose of this thread, any settlement shown in capital letters on an OS Landranger map is a town; if it's only shown in lower case letters it doesn't count.


Soham would have been disqualified for the same reason, even if it didn't have any lights. Sorry.


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 Post subject: Re: Towns without traffic lights
PostPosted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 14:41 
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I am sure there are none in Keswick.

I'm sure there are. There's a light controlled crossing on Victoria St near the junction with Station St (unless it's been removed in the last year)

It's still there, and there's a newer pedestrian crossing at the Main Street / Bank Street junction (which isn't really a proper junction as such due to the pedestrianised area). Lots of people trying to cross there and all the traffic going around the corner because of the pedestrianisation made it fairly necessary.


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ellandback wrote:
I'll give you Barmouth, but regret to advise that Harlech does not qualify under my definition of "town":

ellandback wrote:
- For the purpose of this thread, any settlement shown in capital letters on an OS Landranger map is a town; if it's only shown in lower case letters it doesn't count.


Soham would have been disqualified for the same reason, even if it didn't have any lights. Sorry.

OK, I didn't realise a town could be so small! In that case, I'll put Pateley Bridge on the map. Slightly bizarre that it counts as a town when Soham doesn't, given that Soham is a lot bigger!


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 Post subject: Re: Towns without traffic lights
PostPosted: Wed Jul 07, 2010 20:08 
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I'm sure Rothbury doesn't have any.

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 Post subject: Re: Towns without traffic lights
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Although technically not eligible for this topic, I'm quite surprised that the town of Wickford in Essex, with about 35,000 people, has just one set of traffic lights (at the end of its high St, j/w A129) and 1-2 sets of pedestrian traffic lights scattered in two different parts of town. For a town that size, that's not much.


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 Post subject: Re: Towns without traffic lights
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Alston, though the cobbled streets are a good way of reducing speed.


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 Post subject: Re: Towns without traffic lights
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Alston, though the cobbled streets are a good way of reducing speed.

In the same part of the world, Brampton doesn't have any either, although I think it has a Puffin/Pelican.

If we're judging towns by being named in capital letters on OS Landranger maps, there are plenty of small towns/large villages in Scotland that must qualify, such as Ballater, Dornoch, Inveraray and Lochgilphead. Castle Douglas is a fair-sized town that doesn't have any. And there's Malpas in Cheshire.

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 Post subject: Re: Towns without traffic lights
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If we're judging towns by being named in capital letters on OS Landranger maps, there are plenty of small towns/large villages in Scotland that must qualify, such as Ballater, Dornoch, Inveraray and Lochgilphead. Castle Douglas is a fair-sized town that doesn't have any. And there's Malpas in Cheshire.
Of course, Yarmouth, IoW is the smallest town in the UK - pop 1000. I'm not sure if it has traffic lights or not.

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 Post subject: Re: Towns without traffic lights
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New Abbey, Torthorwald and Collin if they count. I've always been told they are really small towns and that Streetmap counts all as a town

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