Rishton: Eachill junction traffic lights sequencing corrected

Following many complaints of long queues on Blackburn Road in Rishton, an engineer from Lancashire County Council discovered a fault that was bringing in the pedestrian crossing stage every time, even when not demanded, which seemed to be causing some of the extra queueing.

This fault was put right on Tuesday 2nd February and a number of minor timing changes were also made to help to reduce the queueing and improved the operation of the signals.

The traffic consultants who designed the new installation are coming back to the site to review and revalidate the operation of the signals on 22nd February. This should also hopefully improve further the operation of the signals and confirm that they are working as efficiently as possible.

Cllr Ken Moss said, "It's unfortunate that it has taken so long to put right but unfortunately LCC are under a great deal of pressure at the moment. However, I hope that people will have already felt the difference and I'll be monitoring the situation just to make sure."