Low Road Disco

Well Barrow's long dreaded new one way system has finally opened for business, even though it is obviously nowhere near completion. As expected we had long delays and confused motorists, none more so than the poor out of town visitors who were trying to find the way out of town. One frustrated driver, one of the many that I had watched muttering whilst driving round Hollywood park Roundabout four or five times, stopped and pleaded to be told the way out. It seems that like a lot of folk now, when going to a strange town he depends on his Sat-Nav to lead him the way. The confusing voice from his Sat-Nav kept telling him to turn left, which would take the wrong way into the one way system. I can see it being many years before Sat-Navs are updated to tell the confused drivers that they strangely have to head towards Walney Island to find the way out of town. And unsurprisingly we have been granted yet another set of traffic lights from the seemingly endless supply, for the Low road to Walney. That makes three sets of traffic lights in a matter of few hundred yards, all completely uncoordinated and brilliantly confusing. This short stretch of road will soon become the envy of Barrow's nightclubs; club goers from miles around will come to admire the spectacular lightshow. Whilst stuck between these lights for twenty minutes or so this morning I started to count the individual red, green and amber lights, I lost count in amazement when I reached the staggering number of eighty-five.