Suddenly Norwich City Council saw sense and have spent the best part of three months getting rid of many of the traffic lights. But they haven't got rid of them all.
So if you enter the roundabout from Cleveland Road you will be faced by a set of traffic lights. But woe betide anyone who thinks that just because they are on green it is safe to go onto the roundabout. Just through the traffic lights is a junction with traffic flowing in two lanes from your right. This traffic is no longer regulated by lights, so is coming round pretty fast.
It remains to see if this is all an improvement. Having been round it yesterday I would suggest there is now an element of danger about it all. The sensible thing would have been for all the traffic lights to have been taken away but that would have taken a modicum of intelligence.
If you use this roundabout please do let me know how you feel about the changes.
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I have just finished reading a crime novel set in Norfolk. Broadland is the first in a series of detective novels featuring the police duo of Detective Inspector John Tanner and Detective Constable Jenny Evans.
Overall I found it a tad disappointing. So much time is spent setting the scene that there isn't a lot of detective work involved and you reach the threequarters mark with the sudden realisation that something has to happen very quickly and there's no real surprise when the murderer is unmasked due to so few characters being introduced. Some of the dialogue is trite and some of the police procedure far fetched. The interaction between the two detectives is corny and predictable. But despite all that, it is still an easy read and I will certainly try a few of the others in the series.
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So here is my daily rant about football. Now I know that some of you glaze over when I mention the round ball game but it's such a part of my life that I feel I need almost a daily fix of comment.
Those who anjoy/suffer football will know that we now employ VAR in the Premier Division. Let's just say it hasn't been a great success at times. Video Assistant Referee sees a qualified referee sitting in a room miles away from the match venue. He checks decisions and does all manner of other irrelevant things.
But VAR so often gets things wrong that us fans end up scratching our head and wondering how such a mess can be made. Technically VAR can only overturn a referee's decision if there has been a clear and obvious error. On Wednesday in the match between West Ham and Arsenal, the on field referee awarded Arsenal a penalty and sent the offending player off for a second yellow card.
Replays of the incident showed that the defender clearly got the ball. But that wasn't considered a clear and obvious error by the on field referee. So my question is simple "what the hell is a clear and obvious error?"
Enough about football and enough of my ramblings for today.