The yellow boxes at junctions

wilkos_perm

wilkos_perm

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Do people now officially just totally ignore them, or not understand the purpose? (Or a bit of both?)
 
wilkos_perm said:
Do people now officially just totally ignore them, or not understand the purpose? (Or a bit of both?)
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Them and traffic lights. It is only a suggestion to stop if they are on red.

You see people entering these grids all the time causing issues. They should be number plate recognition on these grids and traffic lights and any infringements drivers should be fined.
 
Since most people pass their tests in their teenage years they tend to have forgotten most of the rules of the road by the time they are older, like speeding, not indicating, any form of dangerous driving
 
I was coming down Durham Road at 5am the other day and some t*t overtook me doing about 60. He got stopped at the Mile House lights and I pulled up behind him. It was no surprise when he then decided he wasn't going to wait for the lights and just went through on red.
 
Chemicalworker said:
Yellow boxes
They make us do what the good drivers have always done
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They've been about for about 60 years.
So good drivers over the age of 80 maybe were fine for a few years before then. When there were a lot fewer cars on the road.

But even for good drivers they are useful when it wouldnt be obvious on approaching an area that clear access is needed. Or that it might cause congestion otherwise.
 
proctors_perm said:
When you live in London at get fined for waiting in theM, then they get understood. Living back up north though, no, people don’t understand them
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I entered a box junction to go straight on as normal, totally fine as the exit was empty.

Then someone pulled in from a side road in front of me and blocked my path, meaning I was stuck inside the box unable to move.

I got a fine in the post. Yes it was in London. I bet 1000s of drivers get caught doing the same as I did.
 
I Was trying to get in and out of Teeside park today.

Entering from Ingleby from the ramp up the turn to hitting Ninja warrior 20mins, couldn’t turn right as people from barrage just blocked the lane so took ages to get through.

Then when coming out the boxes as people turn right towards Morrisons, as lights change cars rushing through blocking the box. Mean could nt get out and they just sat there blocking the road while we missed our light cycle without moving
 
A while ago I was waiting at lights with a box junction.
The light turned green but there was stationary traffic on the other side of the junction so I waited because I would have blocked traffic turning right from the opposite direction if I had to stop on the box junction. Person in the car behind honked her horn and was gesticulating for me to drive forward. Clueless.
 
I understand them and obey them, but i do get annoyed when you stop due to a queue infront caused by traffic lights ahead and just as your about to move forward a car appears at the left hand junction and pulls out thinking you will just give way to them despite your right of way.

I know its petty, but still annoying, unless the driver is a pretty woman when i then get told you let her out just cos she was pretty, can't win really, so on balance i hate them.
 
Rofesleg said:
They've been about for about 60 years.
So good drivers over the age of 80 maybe were fine for a few years before then. When there were a lot fewer cars on the road.

But even for good drivers they are useful when it wouldnt be obvious on approaching an area that clear access is needed. Or that it might cause congestion otherwise.
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I think you’ve missed the point
 
It was the slogan for a public service advert on tv in the 70s highlighting how to use the box junctions
Indeed they were saying that in fact
 
I don't think the yellow box works at the Southern Cross traffic lights. At peak times if you're heading down from Dixons Bank to Marton Road the exit from the box is never empty as the filter lane from Stainton Way is not traffic light controlled.
 
It's not just the drivers who block them who are idiots. I live within earshot of a yellow box junction, and there's a steady soundtrack of drivers leaning on their horn when the junction is blocked, as if that will magically make the cars in front levitate out of their way.
 
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