This is how I feel

[andrewducker]

whenever someone complains about the Edinburgh traffic system:

Also, when they complain about taxes, politics, finances, or anything else they clearly don't understand.
(obviously, complaining about actually broken things, or things they do understand is fine)

Comments

[dreema.livejournal.com]

and it wouldn't surprise me if the lights system round edinburgh was designed by someone down in London, who had never even seen Edinburgh in real life.

We used to complain about the lights system the same in Lancaster. Thing was, our point was always proved when there was a power cut and the lights all failed (or someone crashed into one of the main control nodes). There were no traffic jams at all, it was like school holiday time.

no lights = good

[surliminal.livejournal.com]

but when that happens they put a policeman on to direct the traffic at which point EVERYTHING slows down. (I completely don't understand how whenever there's some big tarffic disruption like an accident or a march, they turn off the lights and let the policeman do it all- because that ALWAYS makes it worse.)