Kirkcaldy must have some of the worst timed traffic lights in the land. This morning I was going for fuel, which saw me hitting about half the traffic lights in the town. Despite a fair part of my journey being on the main A921 through the town I was stopped at almost every light. It is as if they are timed to play awkward bu@@ers. As I approached a green light it would change to red before sitting like that for a full minute or do. There is very little traffic about at 06:30 so I would sit and wait while nothing came through on the green light! Actually, there were three lights, which after sitting for my minute, changed in my favour just as a car approached them from the side road! So it is not just me they have a grudge against!!
There is one set of lights that has a three minute cycle, day and night, and you can regularly sit there with nothing crossing your path. They are even on a bus route. The drivers must get really pi$$ed with them.
There is another set of lights, that recently was put in in place of a roundabout. And they work as a four way set, with only one direction green at a time. It has decimated the amount of traffic using that junction, and, according to the checkout operators of the filling station beside them, the amount of trade they do.
It is little wonder I see many drivers jumping the lights at that time of the morning. One van driver regularly treats a red light, at the three minute junction, as a Give Way sign!