Chaos at yellow box junctions

You can sit in the yellow box if you're waiting to turn right (assuming the exit road is clear). Not a lot of people know that.

Thank you "Boxed In". You have just confirmed my own comments posted 29-Jan-2008,:please see below. It's another form of tax revenue and nothing to do with sorting out gridlocked roads or the like.

Driving into a Yellow Box junction is like a game of musical chairs. Suddenly all exits are taken and you're left without the chair, and are out. But just remember this game costs a lot of money if you lose. I am presently allowing £450 per annum for parking fines, bus lane contraventions and other scams of the authorities. This vastly more than I pay in car insurance.

A perfectly valid gripe, but the root of the problem is the traffic control system, based on the fatal flaw of priority. Priority makes roads dangerous. It produces unbroken traffic streams and a "need" for lights. Without priority, and without lights, we would do what comes naturally - filter in turn, and your exit wouldn't be blocked. www.mcassini.com

Excuse me but I never ever intentionally block a yellow box junction. There are however instances when it still happens for example in slow moving, heavily congested traffic. Acting in good faith, you see there is space for you behind the vehicle in front where the back of your vehicle will stop just outside the box junction restriction area. So you proceed to drive forward BUT in that very instance, the idiot from the other lane decides to suddenly face forward and barge into the space without any warning or appropriate use of signals. As a result you can no longer go backwards as the space you were originally in, is now probably taken up by the vehicle that was behind you. You cannot go forward now as the other reckless, selfish and arrogant driver has just pushed in without any due care or attention so what other option do you have other than now wait like a wet lettuce in the yellow box junction! The next driver comes along and says "Hey look at that idiot parked up inside the box junction, blocking everyone!" not realising the entire circumstances as to how this came about! Just in case you find yourself in this situation in future.

Trinity, I fully agree with you, I would love to see a few of our 'safety officers' watching these box junctions with their 'safety camera's'(not revenue camera's as some of you non believers would suggest) I am sure they would soon reach their daily quota's (not that they exist). A simlar situation was happening near me during road works and the selfishness of these drivers caused massive jams, of course untill our 'safety officers' realised there was a killing to be made and a few hundred tickets later some form of normality resumed.

lack of control at Box junctions, shows the same regard as those cyclists, riding on the pavements, wrong way in a one way street, shooting red lights and generally having an arrogant holier than thou attitude to other road users.
Keep persevering the box junction will ease when they start getting fixed penalties.

Trinity, eh? well there's an orthodox name, especially if you are a heretical Unitarian like that which is so fashionable nowadays since it was discovered Shakespeare was a closet Catholic and Newton nothing more than a alchemical quack. I am afraid you you must be considered the "heretic". Driving to work? why are you not taking the bus or walking to work? It's little cars like yours which are the real big cause of the morning congestion. You and your sort are choking the daylights out of us with your fumes. Your sort is causing us all nothing but frustration and anger. Mind your rude hand signals or I might bump you on purpose, mistaking your gestures as ones of wanting to turn right. You really might be going to hospital and not coming out.

In your simple mind don't you realise what yellow boxes were put there really for? They're not there to solve traffic problems like the one you have described. They're there as a cash cow for the local authority to make few bucks from, from the fines they will soon be issuing, as soon as cameras get cheap enough to place near these traps.