MP Lambastes TfL Over Signal Breakdowns

2.49.47pm UTC (GMT +0000) Fri 13th Apr 2007

Following public protests over prolonged disruptions to traffic light signalling in Teddington, there is now concern over repeated and prolonged breakdowns in signalling on a busy A316 interchange in Twickenham. Vincent Cable, MP, has written to Transport for London about the "dangerous conditions and the apparently casual approach of TfL to sorting the problem out".

Vincent Cable said that local residents, both pedestrians and motorists, had expressed alarm:"they take their lives into their hands if they cross at the Whitton Road roundabout. It is a difficult junction even at the best of times with four streams of busy traffic and three pedestrian crossings. When there are no lights conditions are very hazardous. Yet TfL seem unable to sort out persistent problems, do not erect warning notices; and have made no arrangements with the police to provide alternative, manual, controls in very difficult circumstances.