July at the Romanse Cente

Eleven of us met at the Romanse Centre at 2.30 pm today. We were first shown in to what looked to be a board room where we watched a 10 minute audio film made at the time when it was first started as a pilot scheme to control the flow of traffic. A very young looking Sally Taylor enthused as to how it was going to improve everybody's lives. Some of the things promised did not materialise such as the planning your journey. The operation is almost automatic with software able to recognise road conditions and adjust the flow of traffic accordingly by varying the timing of the traffic lights.
It was interesting to see the bank of screens beaming in the pictures from all of the Southampton area.