traffic in Newbury Options

[Bill Kenikabs]

Why do we have so much traffic in Newbury?? Because it is caught up in the rush to get out ....... the main reason is because the called this ring road the A339 when it should be a B road ensuring that through traffic avoids the town this must lay with Highways and our Goverment lucky they do not drive to Newbury or come shopping here.

[Berkshirelad]

What amazes me is the number of vehicles on the road with defective lights.

[x2lls]

What amazes me is the number of vehicles on the road with defective lights.

Manufacturers have also stopped fitting indicators on some of their vehicles.

I really do wonder what our traffic authorities ACTUALLY do sometimes. Surely, if they can put a mobile speed camera in a layby, they can record all those with defective lights, plus number plate. A simple warning in the post to get it sorted or take it off the road would go a long way.

[motormad]

I think while some people don't notice their lights are out (these are the same people to drive with their sidelights on) but many cars EG most VW's since 2004, Audis, Mercs, etc, all have bulb out warning errors on the dash board. So many of them do know.
It's just that sometimes (and I can understand this up to a point) they don't have the time. Not everyone is as savvy as some of us and struggle to change a lightbulb in their house let alone in their car where it's mostly fiddly. Not everyone can get the time to go to Halfords for example and some people are daft and take it to the main dealer which needs booking in, in most cases.

Manufacturers have also stopped fitting indicators on some of their vehicles.

I really do wonder what our traffic authorities ACTUALLY do sometimes. Surely, if they can put a mobile speed camera in a layby, they can record all those with defective lights, plus number plate. A simple warning in the post to get it sorted or take it off the road would go a long way.

They ACTUALLY pull people over for driving dangerously and also for no insurance, etc. A car with a failed headlight does not need to be taken "off the road".

[JeffG]

(these are the same people [who] drive with their sidelights on)

And don't get me started on people who drive in rain without headlights!

[motormad]

And don't get me started on people who drive in rain without headlights!

Well in the rain in clear conditions is fine.
Luckily I have auto headlights which turn on if the wipers are going fast enough or if I go over 95. (not that I do).